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“Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Macedonia, Russia, Greece—all the Orthodox nations of Europe—are characterized by weak institutions. That is because Orthodoxy is flexible and contemplative, based more on the oral traditions of peasants than on texts. So there is this pattern of rumor, lack of information, and conspiracy….”11”
― In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
― In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
“the Romanian royal family and political elite took refuge in Jassy in Moldavia in the northeast.12”
― In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
― In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
“As the Arab proverb says, “People resemble their times more than they resemble their fathers.”
― In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
― In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
“Romania, as I am forced to refer to it, constitutes one of those indigestible ethnic nations, like Georgia and Armenia, that have miraculously survived the millennia despite being oppressed, overrun, and vanquished.”
― In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
― In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
“Beyond Cina and the Athenaeum stretched Piaţa Revoluţiei, the vast square holding the former royal palace and Communist Party headquarters, where tanks had rolled and the streets had run with blood during the uprising against Ceauşescu in December 1989, the singular event which terminated the Cold War in Europe.”
― In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
― In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
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