Poet Mircea Dinescu, one of the key figures of the 1989 Revolution, said on Saturday as he exercised his imagination that Nicolae Ceausescu would win next year’s presidential election with an overwhelming majority.

• “If Ceausescu was alive, he would have become president next year. Ceausescu came out with 90%. How to explain? A normal person, who has a bitter pension or a mediocre salary, despaired that at the end of the month it is necessary to pay for electricity, water, tax. In average life under communism you didn’t have that problem, it was nothing to pay for your electricity or I don’t know what. We made wild capitalism.
• Have we not solved the pension problem for years? Give some people who have worked for 30 years a pension they can live on without fearing that the day will come when they have to pay for electricity and medicine (…)!
• In Romanian markets, there are more sellers than buyers. This is not good. This is not a consumer society. And the point here is not communist nostalgia, that in the old days there were three sellers and three buyers at the bazaar, that crazy Ceausescu put mercury in the market and the peasants stopped going to the bazaar.
• We have a nightmare called triangular capitalism, which has nothing to do with the Western world,” Mircea Dinescu said on Prima TV’s Political Insider show, according to News.ro.

Former dissident Mircea Dinescu claims that after the 1989 revolution, Romanian capitalism was built by former party activists and former security personnel.

“Even Marx did not predict that after communism would come capitalism created by party activists and bodyguards. And a few vagrants. I did not expect the fall of communism at all. Ceausescu talked about the year 2050, he considered himself immortal. On the other hand, we dreamed that a more educated party activist like Ion Iliescu would come, who was talked about in Free Europe, that he could possibly become the next president of Romania, although some expected that Nicushor Ceausescu would come,” Mircea said. Dinescu

According to a survey conducted by INSCOP and commissioned by News.ro, almost 50% of Romanians believe that the communist regime was good for Romania, a higher percentage than 10 years ago.

In addition, more than 46% of Romanians believe that life was better before 1989 compared to the current situation.

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