Mihail Gorbaciov și Proiectul românesc de Sistematizare Rurală (1989)

Abstract

In 1989, the scandal broke out in the West because of the rural systematization project. The project involved the demolition of half of Romania’s villages, 7-8 thousand villages that were to be wiped off the face of the earth along with their cemeteries. There was a wave of protests from the West against this particularly brutal project. Ceausescu, however, remained deaf to any kind of criticism. It is the reason for which both the West and the Romanian exile sought to make the Kremlin leader responsible for intervening to stop the madness. Everyone waited for a sign from Gorbachev, the only one who could have changed something, in their opinion.

Keywords

• ural
• village
• demolition
• exile
• gorbachev