MEDICAL CARE UNDER DICTATORSHIP (“My Second University” Two Reviews: Ionel TARANU and Constantin ROMAN) “My Second University – memories from Romanian Communist prisons” by Dr. Stanciu Stroia and Dr. Dan Dusleag, (iUniverse Inc., New York, 2005, 271 pages, Index, illustrations, £10.53 ISBN: 0-595-34639-1) THREE GENERATIONS OF MEDICAL DOCTORS UNDER DICTATORSHIP: Dr. Stanciu Stroia was born [...]
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Russell Pittman: REVIEW: Burton Y. Berry, Romanian Diaries, 1944-1947 (ed. Cornelia Bodea). Iasi: The Center for Romanian Studies, 2000. 715 pp., ISBN 973-9432-07-7. Price: £ 32.95 http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/9739432077/qid=1117437423/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_8_4/202-7237407-5767029 Romanian joke: The first post-1989 commercial American ship arrives at the Romanian harbor of Constanta. A dockworker asks the captain: “What took you guys so long?” The captain [...]
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“Memorialul Durerii”, a political TV Documentary series had been researched and produced for the Romanian TV by Lucia Hossu-Loghin. This is an epic story of Romania’s most notorious political prisons under Communism. Miss Hossu-Loghin had interviewed the survivors, or the families of those jailed, visited the sites where the crimes were perpetrated and even interviewed [...]
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“Where are you going, Sir?
In the garden, my Dream.
To do what, Sir?
To be shot, my Dream.
‘cause they have bullets, Sir?
‘cause they have time, my Dream.”
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Note:
Ion Caraion, (1923-1986), Poet, Essayist
(from “Am pe nimeni” – “I have nobody”)
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Translated from Romanian by:
Constantin Roman.
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