For our English readers:
We recommend the following documents on the events of December 1989 in Romania:
Short film: „20 years on: What did Romania’s revolution achieve?”
Twenty years have past since the repressive communist regime of Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown.
More than 1000 died in days of clashes which ended with the execution of the president and his wife.
The BBC’s world affairs editor John Simpson visited the country to see what if anything the revolution achieved.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8417391.stm
and
„Romania’s bloody revolution remembered”, by Nick Thorpe:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8415614.stm