The Spring Palace, the former residence of the Ceausescu family located in Bucharest’s upscale Spring district, opened on Saturday to the public, with Deputy Prime Minister Vasile Dincu saying on the occasion that this is a first successful experiment of rebuilding the Romanian society as a transparent society as regards its past.
“I congratulate those who have worked to offer us a permanent exhibition related to the Ceausescu family. At this time we cannot yet speak of a museum. I think that in the spirit of transparency you already got used to with the Ciolos government, the action here belongs to transparency of the past. Many current mistakes stem from the past and I believe that when we speak about the dark period of the Ceausescu dictatorship we speak of a dark period for Romania’s democratic society, and we must in the first place know what happened then,” Vasile Dincu said at the opening ceremony. More…