Debates and round tables

"When justice does not succeed in being a form of memory, memory itself can be a form of justice"
Ana Blandiana


	The Memorial of the Victims of Communism


		International Center for Studies about Communism

"A quarter of century from the SLOMR"
April 30, 2004,

Civic Academy organized Friday, 30 April 2004, a documentary debate referring to the Free Union of Romanian Workers, established 25 years ago by Dr. Ionel Cana and by a group of intellectuals and workers. Two years after the suppression of the miners strike in Jiu Valley and the movement started by the writer Paul Goma, S.L.O.M.R. broadcasted a programme of demands within the country and succeeded in gathering over 2000 adhesion signatures from very diverse environments and geographical areas, remaining a symbol of Romanians’ attempt of opposing the monopoly of the totalitarian state. The speakers: doctor Ionel Cana, worker Vasile Paraschiv, Gratiana Popescu (sister of unionist Carmen Popescu) and Mara Stefan evoked the moments of the union’s setting up and its dissolution by the Security of State, through dismissals, arrests, sentencing and expulsions. Engineer Gerhard Nikolaus Kneip described in a letter sent from Germany how S.L.O.M.R. was set up in Timisoara. Cicerone Ionitoiu, dr. Ion Vianu and Victor Frunza talked about the echo of the union within the country and abroad, and the special role in the unification of the movement that was played by the broadcasts of “Free Europe”. Dr. Ionel Cana – who owns an impressive collection of the union’s archive – presented examples of records from the broadcasts.

Through this discussion (that enjoyed a touching atmosphere), Civic Academy completes the series of recent history moments, evoked in the presence of its protagonists, at the headquarters in Bucharest and at the Sighet Memorial (namely the meetings in Brasov in 1987, the demonstrations of intellectuals and workers in the 70’ and 80’). Ana Blandiana, the moderator of the discussion shown the continuity of anti-communist resistance that, after years of murderous repression during the Dej regime, faced less taught but more perfidious obstacles during the “golden era” and still succeeded in creating discontent among workers, which erodated and compromised the definition of the “the proletariat dictatorship” and the real socialism, until its collapse in 1989.

Debates and round tables

»	December 18 - 19, 1996, Timisoara "December 1989 - an enigma turning seven years of age"
»	February 28, 1997, Bucuresti "The Communist Party and Securitate archives - access and legislation"
»	June 4 - 5, 1997, Bucuresti "Visit of Dr. Joachim Gauck, the Head of the Office for study of STASI dossiers from Germany"
»	December 29, 1997, Bucuresti "1947 - fifty years from the coup d'Etat of December 30, 1947"
»	June 23 - 25, 1998, Sighet "Writers in prisons. Between physical and spiritual freedom"
»	December 18 - 19, 1999, Timisoara "1989 - 10 years later"
»	March 31, 2000, Bucuresti "10 years since the Proclamation of Timisoara"
»	May 8, 2000, Sighet "Fifty years from the arrests of 5-6 May 1950 - destruction of Romanian elite"
»	September 20, 2000, Bucuresti "Germans' emigration from Romania"
»	March 28, 2002, Bucuresti "Romanian historiography during the communist period"
»	May 29, 2002, Bucuresti "Opponents and disidents in Ceausescu's era"
»	November 8, 2002, Bucuresti "Brasov - November 15th, 1987"
»	November 29, 2002, Bucuresti "Bukovski at Sighet"

»	February 2, 2003, Sighet "Iuliu Maniu, 50 years from his death"
»	February 4, 2003, Bucuresti "Iuliu Maniu - a history maker"
»	April 17, 2003, Bucuresti "Gheorghe I. Bratianu, 50 years from his death"
»	April 19, 2003, Sighet "Gheorghe I. Bratianu"
»	June 5, 2003, Sighet "Remembrance Day"
»	June 25, 2003, Bucuresti "Ioan Suciu - 50 years from his death "
»	July 6, 2003, "WHAT IS THE USE OF HISTORY IN POST-COMMUNIST TIMES. The role of the Sighet Memorial and Summer School "
»	January 11, 2004, "The children’s crusade"
»	March 28, 2004, "20 years from the demolition of the Brancovenesti Establishments"
»	April 30, 2004, "A quarter of century from the SLOMR"
»	November 8, 2004, "Memento Gulag"
»	November 7, 2005, "Press conference "Census of the Concentrationary population of Romania during 1945-1989""
»	July 3, 2006, "Memory and Memorial in Israel"
»	November 20, 2006, "The parliamentary elections of 19 November 1946. From collective memory to historical research"

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