Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:42:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: Caro Stewart <papusi_marionete-AT-yahoo.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Pshycological word games


I grew up in Romania, when the country was ruled by a dictator named Nicolae Ceausescu. I did not mention that the University students also were doing the same kind of field work, even longer periods of times than us. The soldiers, too... more than everybody else.
There are so many ugly things that happened those communist times... Romanians did not have food for years. Ceausescu would export everything. As a teenager I remember that the flour was heavily exported and we were buying bread made of three kinds of flour: apple core, carrot, and wheat. Luckily, my parents lived in rural area, so we had a garden were they grew vegetables (besides working as accountants for a State Mechanical Park) and fruit.
Each day including winter, the Stae was cutting off the power for 2 hours during the evening. Imagine an entire nation in dark... Because Ceausescu wanted to save energy and... to make Romanians suffer. So many things, don't get me started.
There was a good thing though: the cultural life was financially helped by the State. There was litle money of course, but they were present, in comparison with these days. That's way Romania had a great number of theatre companies!
As long as I was a student during Ceausescu dictatorship, Saturdays were regular school days. Imagine that we had to catch up for 2 months of lost learning time :O) When I turned 22, the new communists "with human faces" as they liked to call themselves, killed Ceausescu (they were scared that he would talk about them) and took the power and we got to have Saturdays off.
Terrible thing the communism... 

Caro

Mary  Horsley <mphorsley-AT-earthlink.net> wrote: Caro, your story is fascinating.....where did you grow up?

Mary



       
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