How difficult it is to change

Much of the apparatus of the Communist regime crumbled, some more violently than others, with the Berlin Wall but the climate of fear they generated left a moral devastation that will take longer to heal.

Historians claim that it will be two generations before the footprint of Communism has been fully washed away 

Romania has a very interesting history before, during and after the Second World War - just think of the Warsaw Pact, officially named the "Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance," created to counter the perceived threat of NATO (the Warsaw Pact countries consisted of the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania).