According to a recent opinion survey conducted in Romania, most of the population claims that life was better with the Communist Party in power at present under capitalism. The bulk of respondents gave a positive vision of communism, and more than 60% considered it a "good idea" in principle. The surveyors observed a significant increase affinity with the Communist ideology compared to a similar survey four years earlier. conducted between August and September this year by the Romanian Institute of opinion sondeso CSOP, the survey showed that more than 49% agreed that life was better under the government of former communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu, while only 23 % thought that life today is better. The rest gave a neutral response or ns / nc.
Reasons given for the positive assessment of the communist period were mainly economic, a 62% cited the availability of jobs, 26% decent living conditions and 19% universal housing guaranteed ..
The survey was sponsored by the organization IICM (Institute for Research of Crimes of Communism and the Memory of Romanian Exile), publicly funded in order to contribute to the work of "educating" people about the evils of communism. Among the most bitter disappointments of the survey results provided to this organization have answered the question about whether respondents or their families had suffered under the communist system.
Only 7% of respondents said they had suffered under communism, with an additional 6% who had not suffered personal injury, argues that if he had experienced any member of your family. Also here the reasons given were primarily economic: most concerned the shortage that occurred in the decade of 1980, when Romania launched an austerity program to repay debt abroad. A small part of the minority that had suffered during the communist period believed that they had been harmed by being nationalized property, and a handful (6% of those who remembered bad experiences under communism) said that while the Communists were in power they, or any member of his family had been arrested at some point. Twisting at the discretion
the result of the survey, IICM noted that many respondents (41% and 42% respectively) agreed with the statement that the communist regime was either criminal or unlawful. A significant minority (37% and 31%) disagreed explicitly with these claims, and the rest were neutral or silent.
addition, although most participants welcomed the communism, only 27% declared to disagree in principle with him, most of which also gave a definite opinion comnunistas thought the ideas were never put on the best work before the change regime in 1989. 14% gave the unequivocal answer that communism was a good idea and that it had implemented the best in Romania.
Thus, a large part of Romanian communism undecided whether or not it was legal and legitimate form of government and a vast majority of those who say that communism was implemented incorrectly were, however, felt uncertain when the system put to work by the Romanian Communist Party, with all its faults, offered a better life for the people who offered capitalism today. Communist Achievements
Before the Communists tomasen power in Romania, most of the population was illiterate and had no access to health care. Only a minority of the rural population, which was the predominant, had access to sanitation or electricity available. Infant mortality rates were among the worst in Europe and prognosis of life was less than 40 years due to starvation and other diseases. The Romanian right-wing regime allied with Hitler during the Second World War and in the framework of capitalist alliance that sent most of the country's Jewish population to Nazi death camps.
puffed to power after the Soviet victory against Nazi Germany in 1945, the Romanian Communists, a group hitherto illegal clandestine struggle against the pro-fascist Romanian government and the Nazis, amounted to a few thousand. Although it succeeded in mobilizing the enthusiasm of the people to rebuild their war-torn country. Virtually ended illiteracy, health services improved and expanded massively, and, as surveyed by the CSOP-show jobs, housing and decent living standards became accessible to everyone.
Encouraged by these successes, the communist government headed by Nicolae Ceausescu went into debt during the 70's with the purchase of expensive industrial equipment to the West to increase the rate of economic growth in the country with the hope that Western countries would increase their imports of Romanian products. That strategy failed, and then implemented austerity program in order to pay the national debt led to a growing resentment.
Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were executed by firing squad on Christmas Day 1989. His death sentence was given after a summary trial ordered by the new reformist leaders of the country, were convicted of crimes against the Romanian people.
But despite this conviction, and although the general opinion is reflected in the results of la encuesta CSOP es que el sistema comunista, tal como se aplicó en Rumania, fracasó, sólo una pequeña minoría de los consultados en la encuesta (15%) dice que el ex jefe comunista Nicolae Ceausescu fuera un mal líder. La mayoría se mostraron neutrales o indecisos al respecto, y el 25% afirma que el liderazgo de Ceausescu había sido bueno para el país.
En su valoración de los resultados de la encuesta, el IICMER observa que los rumanos están muy lejos de ser únicos en su valoración positiva del comunismo del pasado siglo. Según una encuesta realizada en varios países del Centro y el Este de Europa en 2009 por el Centro de Investigación estadounidense Pew, el porcentaje de población former socialist countries that consider life under capitalism was worse than during the communist period is as follows:
Poland: 35%
Czech Republic: 39%
Slovakia: 42%
Lithuania: 42%
Russia 45%
Bulgaria: 62%
Ukraine: 62%
Hungary: 72%
particularly significant in the results of the survey CSOP / IICM 2010 in Romania is that as they gain more experience in life under the "market economy", people become increasingly negative with respect to capitalism and more positive with respect to communism. In the earlier survey conducted in 2006, 53% expressed a favorable opinion of communism, in 2010, the favorable percentage rose to 61%.
The findings of the survey are not surprising CSOP, if you remember what happened since it was reintroduced capitalism: growing poverty, increased unemployment and insecurity. The Romanian health system is in crisis, and public sector trabajodres have seen their wages cut by 25%. [1]
NOTE:
[1] Technical information about this poll: 1133 people aged 15 years were interviewed between August 27 and September 2, 2010. The interviews were conducted on the basis of a standardized questionnaire, face to face at home. Margin of error: 2.9%.
James Cross is a regular contributor to the online magazine www.redantliberationarmy.worpress
Translation www.sinpermiso.info : Marta Domènech and David Lopez
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