In 2004, during the last tens of meters of the last presidential mandate of Ion Iliescu and the PSD government led by Adrian Nestace, the Romanian Parliament passed Law 556, which provided for the establishment of the Institute of the Romanian Revolution in December 1989. a good part of the time also by people to Iliescu, recruited from the so-called emanations of the revolution (corrected by Gela Vojkan Voikulescu), this Institute did not have what it calls good press. Its main mission is believed to be to confirm this truth, which was desired by those who seized power only hours after the escape of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu.

In 2019, under the Orbán government, an agreement between the PNL and the USR saw the decision to abolish the body, whose fate then seemed to be sealed. As luck would have it, two years later the Constitutional Court made a completely different decision. So the IRRD was revived, but with a new leadership led by Andrii Ursu, none other than the son of the opponent Gheorghe Ursu. Until recently, IRRD had a new team of researchers, a new Academic Council and a permanent presence in public life. It is reflected by the presence of its employees and collaborators at specialized scientific meetings or the publication of articles in scientific journals. However, at the end of November, Andrii Ursa was removed from the management for bureaucratic (and not only) reasons.

This despite the fact that the appearance The fall of the dictator. Hybrid warfare and disinformationpublished in 2022 thanks to the cooperation between the Institute and the publishing house from Iasi Polisher it was a consistent result of the research work of IRRD employees.

IN Introductory note the postscript published in the volume signed by the now former director Andriy Ursa and the American researcher Roland Thomasson, the coordinators of the book, among others, succinctly highlights the current and future directions of the institution’s activities. It is not only about investigating the circumstances, still unclear or controversial episodes of the Revolution, but also about its legal case, which is said to have been drawn up not entirely honestly, where you also say that it is either closed or reopened depending on the political interests of those , who currently holds power, as well as placing the Romanian Revolution in the wider context of the overthrow of communist regimes in Eastern Europe in 1989.

We read aloud Instead of conclusions the following: “More than three decades after the execution a great statesman and political figure who created history planted by former political police still covering up crimes against humanity.” Among other things, we are talking about the pernicious, strange preservation of conspiracy theories, stories about the alleged mixture of the so-called foreign agentsideas circulated between December 16 and 22, 1989 by the former dictator about stories with terrorists import, Soviet or Arab, about the inexplicably high number of deaths registered both in Bucharest and in other cities of the country, starting from the evening of December 22, 1989. And, above all, about the security bleaching operation and the biggest of them led by his last boss, former general Julian Vlad. The operation materialized in the press or supposedly scientific articles, in fake, lying monographs, in countless radio and television talk shows. If the army was consistently put against the wall, then the situation of the former political police, about which the legend spread that it was the main support of the revolutionaries, was completely different. This is in fact, as confirmed by 9 scientific papers signed by Andrii Ursu, Roland Thomasson, Dumitru Laketus, Andrea-Iuliana Badile, Luciana Marioara Jinga, Adrian Claudio Stoica, Andrii Florin Sora, Mihai Danile, grouped into three large sequences ( iRomania in 1989. People under terror Security: oppositionyou, attempts at rebellion, repression, concealmentII. Nicolae Ceausescu’s resistance and security struggle, Action theaters from BucharestIII. Resistance of other cities), everything was completely different. Journal articles of a closed cycle security they prepared and trained political police officers fight back in case of an attempt to overthrow the communist dictatorial regime of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu, resistance embodied not only in attempts to save the dictatorial couple, but also in overt actions terrorist, criminal. Which Julian Vlad and his henchmen knew even after they officially expressed their commitment to the goals of the Revolution. Read the entire article and comment on Contributors.ro