Ce inseamna comunismul pentru mine? / What Does Communism Mean to Me?

This intangible Puppeteer might be compared with an orchestra’s conductor who, since his birth, is conducting the same concert over and over again. At the beginning, some were quite fascinated by it. In time, the public lost his interest and now, the soloists, the singers and the musicians are no longer playing with their hearts, but out of reflex. In spite of this harsh truth, the conductor keeps up a huge propaganda show, meant to shatter away any form of defeatism.

Valentina Sava

Am auzit că în Germania există pastă de dinţi chiar şi în trei culori şi periuţe de dinţi care se rotesc şi funcţionează cu baterii. Mi-a spus un vecin, Dieter, că ăsta-i sas şi are neamuri acolo, dar eu cred că minte. Dieter mai spunea că în Germania există săpunuri cu miros de mere verzi, şampon cu miros de pepene şi cremă de buze cu aromă de căpşuni, fragi şi altele. Ăsta precis minte. Cum naiba să faci şampon din pepeni?

I heard that in Germany you can find three-colour toothpaste and even vibrating toothbrushes working with batteries. That’s what my neighbour Dieter told me, because he’s a Saxon from Transylvania and he has relatives there, but I think he’s lying. Dieter told me that, in Germany, there are green apple-flavoured soaps, melon-flavoured shampoos and strawberry and wild strawberry-flavoured lipsticks. He’s definitely lying. How the hell can you make shampoo out of melons?

Roxana Calburean