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| Romania, also spelled Rumania, is a country in eastern Europe. Its name means land of the Romans, so called because it was part of the Roman Empire during ancient times. The Romanian people are the only eastern Europeans who trace their ancestry and language back to the Romans. [Map] | ||
| For years Miti, along with 22 million Romanians, lived under the hammer of the most repressive regime in Europe. It was during that time that he learned English from secretly listening to the BBC World Service. Then at Christmas 1989, the dictator Ceausescu was swept from power in a popular uprising, the only violent revolution in Europe. Seven months later Miti and I met - at Mamaia on the Black Sea. I was there as part of a church aid trip. After returning to England, Miti and I began exchanging letters. I soon realised his perspective on events and life in general was worth a wider audience. | ||
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Now in the 21st century, Romania is still bedeviled with an endemic lack and ingrained King-serf class divisions. Enslaved to an obsolete and inefficient economic base, Romania waits like a spectator on history that seems to have redeemed it to no purpose. Miti is not a writer, and has no academic qualifications. Nevertheless, with his permission I publish here edited extracts of his Letters from Romania. Dave | |
= article published in Direction Magazine |
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Baksheesh
Hotel A glimpse of the world from a Hotel owned by the now defunct State Ocean Shipping company. Mayday The Pharaoh of Scornicesti and his wooden language. How the first of May used to be. |
Pudybond Another day at the internet cafe. Out of the darkness The effect and influence of the orthodox church on ordinary people, how it became blighted by corruption and compromise with the communists. | ||
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One Mans
Revolution |
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The Library |
Pink Floyd 'Another brick in the wall' that seemed eternal. | ||
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Holding
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The
Little One The old man of Enisala who survived the Gulag to bemoan the passing of the thousand-year Reich. | ||
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Bread
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The
Abolition of the soul The culture of our times sweeping all before it, even love. Impostors Guardians of the New Religion - science. | ||
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the Sun
The corruption of morality and its fallout - on everyday events, and the not-so-everyday event of an air crash outside Enisala village. |
Pentecost Believers with something to believe in. Life - where the spirit is. | ||
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Party
Time
The party's over when the party becomes the church. Midwinter Tragedy |
Newthink,
Newspeak, Newfaith Spin doctors and working mens clubs. Economic Black Holes The scandal of national alms. |
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Testimony
Miti charts his long journey - from brain-washed atheist in a country where belief in God was tantamount to treason against the State, to born-again believer in Christ. |
At
War
Next door neighbours turned suicide killers. Street Angels Who will lok after the lost little people of Romania? | |
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Net God's love and provision in times of distress. We are Free! Summary of One Man's Revolution (Page 2) |
Love thy neighbour Someone filling the gap between faith and deed, between saying 'Love thy neighbour' and doing it | ||
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Letter from Romania is an on-going project begun in April 2001. |
Last Revised: May 2003. | ||
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© romania.uk.com 2001, 2002. Portions may be reproduced without permission for non-commercial use only |
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