📸 O fotografie de arhivă din Piața Victoriei / O lumină aprinsă la fereastră.
Aici a răsunat prima strigăt pentru libertate. ❤️💛💙 Nu uităm. Nu iertăm. Nu cedăm.
For those who walk through Piața Victoriei in Timișoara today, the memory of is everywhere. The "Martyr's Cross" stands in the square. The building of the former County Party Committee is now a memorial. The street where László Tőkés lived is marked with a plaque. 16 decembrie timisoara
To understand the magnitude of December 16, one must understand the atmosphere in Romania during the late 1980s. While other Eastern Bloc nations were experimenting with Perestroika and Glasnost , Romania was sinking deeper into a neo-Stalinist nightmare.
The immediate trigger for was the regime's war against a single man. Pastor László Tőkés of the Reformed Church had become a thorn in the side of the Securitate (the secret police). He had spoken out against the systematization of villages and the abuse of human rights. In response, the state pressured his church superiors to evict him from his parish apartment and reassign him to a remote village. 📸 O fotografie de arhivă din Piața Victoriei
In this climate of austerity and oppression, the city of Timișoara, located in the Banat region near the border with Yugoslavia and Hungary, was unique. Its proximity to the West (via Yugoslav TV channels) meant its citizens were more informed about the outside world. They knew life did not have to be this way. The tension was palpable, but the Securitate (the secret police) was omnipresent. All that was needed was a spark.
By 6:00 PM, the protest had spilled into the Opera Square (Piața Victoriei). Exhausted workers from the Electromotor and Tractor factories, having finished their shifts, saw the violence and joined spontaneously. The crowd grew to several thousand. Nu iertăm
Este ziua în care orașul de pe Bega a arătat României ce înseamnă curajul de a fi primul. Pentru cei care au fost atunci în Piața Operei sau pe Calea Lipovei – respectul nostru veșnic.