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At the beginning of the year, Romania joined the European Union.(Brief article)

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* At the beginning of the year, Romania joined the European Union. The entry ticket carried a price. The country had to make an official repudiation of its Communist past. There is a great deal to atone for. Taking power after World War II, the Communists killed about 60,000 people, while a further 300,000 died in labor camps or digging the Danube canal, a Stalin-like undertaking. No European Communist leader was as wantonly cruel to his people as Nicolae Ceausescu, in power in Bucharest for over 20 years. But after his downfall and execution in 1989, his onetime lieutenant, Ion Iliescu, took over and saw to it that power and money remained in the hands of ...

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