Romania Condemns Communism

Romanian President Traian Basescu has condemned the communist regime as "an illegal and criminal regime". Romanian head of state delivered his speech on Monday, December 18 in front of the Reunited Chambers of the Romanian Parliament, in front of well-known figures fighting against communism in East Europe, as Jelio Jelev, first head of state of the post-communist Bulgaria, and Lech Walesa, former president of Poland, laureate of Nobel Peace Prize. King Mihai I, high ranked clergy of Romania, have participated as guests in the event, Info-Prim Neo reports, with reference to the press in Bucharest. According to the quoted source, it is for the first time when a head of state of a country of former soviet bloc has condemned the communist dictatorship. Traian Basescu is the first President who apologises on behalf of the Romanian state to the families that suffered in the communist period and is also the first head of state that seeks to annul all the sentences pronounced on political grounds. President Basescu has presented a detailed report carried out on the basis of investigations into the archives half-opened by secret services and national archives that store the recent and historical documents of CPR. The act of condemning the communism was welcomed by King Mihai and Lech Walesa, hooted by Greater Romania Party leader Corneliu Vadim Tudor and disputed by Social Democrats in the same hall of the Parliament.