Open Letter to Prime Minister Maia Sandu from the writer Andrei Strâmbeanu: During the Soviet period, the denunciation meant death or, at best, Siberia
foto: Andrei Strambeanu
Letter addressed to Mrs. Prime Minister Maia Sandu
Dear Prime Minister, allow me to express my doubts that at the Harvard University in United States, where over 30 Nobel laureates hold lectures, you have studied Romanian language and our people's history.
How can you say that the new Government, which you run with honor, "…will create an Anticorruption Policy Bureau, so people can use a trustworthy telephone number to DENOUNCE the corruption?"
Thus, not a written “denunciation”, with a signature, with a home address, but with a changed voice, anonymous, from any phone, or a denunciation displayed on internet?
But, didn’t your mother tell you that during the Soviet period, the denunciation (or "donos") meant death or, at best, Siberia?
In our village, in Fantana Alba, a teacher whose young and beautiful wife refused the amorous advances of a "chief" of the district, was DENOUNCED for using a piece of newspaper with Stalin’s portrait as a toilet paper and was sentenced to 25 years in Gulag (forced-labor camp in the Soviet Union).
During the time when Filat was Prime Minister, if I am not mistaken, by law anonymous letters were thrown away. I am an old man and, unfortunately, I have to say that we have had "only bad news", as Romulus Vulpescu said.
And yet, I have not imagined that the political change, very much expected by our people as well as by the West, will bring us a Government that will remove the "old" staff, using a KGB-language.
The word "denounce" has another connotation in Basarabia, which for more than 200 years cannot come out of the Russian boot.
Dear Prime Minister, I welcome the formation of a Bureau to gather the complaints of those who have suffered improperly because of corruption.
Anyhow, the complaints have to be signed and the authors have to answer before the law for their affirmations. The state doesn’t have to pay afterwards to the European Court of Human Rights, as it have happened so far, only because some might make complaints like the Soviet denunciation with the Stalin's portrait.
Don’t get upset, but for those of my age and, thanks God, there are still many of us, talking about “denunciation” is like talking about rope in a room with a hanged person.
I would recommend you, if it doesn’t bother you, to hire in the Government Office a person who has a good knowledge of the language and of the history of this Romanian land placed between Dniestr and Prut rivers.
I wanted to tell you the truth, without upsetting you, as the political thinker Montesquieu, who lived during the Age of Enlightenment, is teaching us. I wish you good luck!
With respect,
Andrei STRÂMBEANU
Dear Prime Minister, allow me to express my doubts that at the Harvard University in United States, where over 30 Nobel laureates hold lectures, you have studied Romanian language and our people's history.
How can you say that the new Government, which you run with honor, "…will create an Anticorruption Policy Bureau, so people can use a trustworthy telephone number to DENOUNCE the corruption?"
Thus, not a written “denunciation”, with a signature, with a home address, but with a changed voice, anonymous, from any phone, or a denunciation displayed on internet?
But, didn’t your mother tell you that during the Soviet period, the denunciation (or "donos") meant death or, at best, Siberia?
In our village, in Fantana Alba, a teacher whose young and beautiful wife refused the amorous advances of a "chief" of the district, was DENOUNCED for using a piece of newspaper with Stalin’s portrait as a toilet paper and was sentenced to 25 years in Gulag (forced-labor camp in the Soviet Union).
During the time when Filat was Prime Minister, if I am not mistaken, by law anonymous letters were thrown away. I am an old man and, unfortunately, I have to say that we have had "only bad news", as Romulus Vulpescu said.
And yet, I have not imagined that the political change, very much expected by our people as well as by the West, will bring us a Government that will remove the "old" staff, using a KGB-language.
The word "denounce" has another connotation in Basarabia, which for more than 200 years cannot come out of the Russian boot.
Dear Prime Minister, I welcome the formation of a Bureau to gather the complaints of those who have suffered improperly because of corruption.
Anyhow, the complaints have to be signed and the authors have to answer before the law for their affirmations. The state doesn’t have to pay afterwards to the European Court of Human Rights, as it have happened so far, only because some might make complaints like the Soviet denunciation with the Stalin's portrait.
Don’t get upset, but for those of my age and, thanks God, there are still many of us, talking about “denunciation” is like talking about rope in a room with a hanged person.
I would recommend you, if it doesn’t bother you, to hire in the Government Office a person who has a good knowledge of the language and of the history of this Romanian land placed between Dniestr and Prut rivers.
I wanted to tell you the truth, without upsetting you, as the political thinker Montesquieu, who lived during the Age of Enlightenment, is teaching us. I wish you good luck!
With respect,
Andrei STRÂMBEANU