“I was in my home town when it happened.  But what was more important for me was that after the Berlin Wall fell, all the other communist regimes did too.
 
We knew this was going to happen in Romania, but we had no idea how, because the system was so dominating.
 
It was then that our national poet went on TV and told us ‘we’ll be free’.
 
We all went out onto the streets to celebrate.
 
We’d heard that freedom equals welfare and at last we thought ‘everybody is going to have everything and the world is going to be perfect.’
 
This happiness only lasted a few days – but even so, it was the greatest day of my life.”
 

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