It has been quite a year in Romania with the resignation of two prime
ministers and near-impeachment of a president. This coupled with
nationwide riots and a growing sense of injustice means that next
month's parliamentary elections will be the most bitterly contested for
decades. The power struggle between Traian Basescu, the right-wing
president, and Victor Ponta, the left-wing prime minister, has grabbed
all the headlines, but the story behind this struggle stretches back to
Romania's communist past -- and to the very moment when a firing squad
put an end to Nicolae Ceausescu, Europe's last Stalinist dictator.
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