Tuesday 27 August 2019

‘Mystification is a brutal process

published in Eurozine (9 August 2019)
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The streets of Bucharest, winter 1989

In an interview with Andrea Pipino, Romanian historian Lucian Boia talks about Romanian identity from its Roman-Dacian beginnings through Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian rule, modernization, fascism, communism, and the paradoxical present, in which this extremely nationalistic country has no openly nationalist political party.

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I found this item extremely informative. Romania is a country that I knew little or nothing about, I know a bit more now should I ever need to!


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