#Andrei Pandele

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Reconstrucción de un mundo mutilado por las excavadoras de Ceaucescu

Un nuevo libro muestra 80 fotografías inéditas de la demolición de un emblemático barrio de Bucarest por decisión del dictador Fotografía incluida en el libro ‘En la época dorada’ de Andrei Pandele, del templo Mihai Vodă, uno de los pocos que logró sobrevivir al gobierno de Ceausescu. ANDREI PANDELE Escrito por Raúl Sánchez Costa Uranus era un barrio de Bucarest de calles pequeñas, inclinadas y…

[hawkuletz]

So true!

And speaking of queer. Let's not forget that (at least in communist Romania, but I would suspect all over the Eastern bloc) homosexuality was punishable by prison (whle at the same time being classified as a psychiatric disease). Not being married after a certain age meant one had to pay an additional celibate tax (I think only men were taxed).

Condoms and contraceptives were forbidden, since the state always needed more people (read: workers). This created a was a huge problem with abandoned children and you really don't want to know how those children were raised (I went to a school situated next to such an institution). They never knew affection (not to mention love), they only knew beatings and hunger. Returning to the issue of sex, it's funny how close the communist and christianity are in this regard: sex is mostly a tool for procreation. The noble communists need not lower themselves to animalistics pleasures like the decadent west (/sarcasm).

I agree that our current capitalist society doesn't look at all well, but it's still way healthier than what it was before communism fell. (this is not to imply this one's healthy, only that the communist one was way worse!)

Yes, we didn't have a problem with cars and traffic. Few private citizens were allowed to have a car. However, the public transport was way worse than it is today. Busses were routinely driving with the doors opened because of the sheer number of passangers (and the fact that they weren't many, waiting times of around half an hour for a local service were routine!)

This is an iconic image, but it's representative. Trouble is that taking pictures such as this was strongly discouraged by Militia (Police). Read: one could be arrested for taking this kind of photos, because they would put the regime in an unfavorable light.

Yes, there wasn't a housing shortage. The state built appartment buildings. **BUT**. The also demolished people's houses to build those buildings, and it so happened that if you didn't have the right connections you could hardly get a 1 bedroom appartment even though maybe you lived in a 3 bedroom house that was demolished by the state.

Yes, there were jobs for everyone. Tough luck if you were born in one part of the country but the state (read: officials) "needed" you on the other side of the country. You were forced to relocate where the state official decided. Depending on one's connections (Romanian: pile), one could avoid that, or with the help of a bribe or favor, be relocated to a better place.

Images taken the site of Andrei Pandele http://www.ap-arte.ro/ro/fotografie/galerii/epoca-de-aur-ceausescu/171.html

The thing is, I have nothing against socialism or communism as a political ideology; trust me, I'm as anti-capitalist as they come. The leftism is really not the problem here.

The problem is when in their leftism, people – Americans, really, and western Europeans – use the ussr as this sort of goal, this complete antithesis to the modern capitalist society, this almost-utopian place to live. They use hammer and sickle symbol, the ussr anthem; sometimes, as a joke, sometimes, not so much.

Not only that clearly shows that they know absolutely nothing about the ussr – it's also spreading russian propaganda, whether it's on purpose or not, which is especially insidious now, when russia is literally committing a genocide.

The ussr wasn't a socialist utopia where everyone is equal. It was a totalitarian dictatorship, responsible for colonisation and genocide of multiple people and cultures. Just like the russian Empire before it. Just like modern russia continues to do now.

For many Eastern European and Central Asian people, hammer and sickle is not just a symbol of a political ideology. It's the symbol, under which people were starved to death, imprisoned or executed for daring to write in their own language; in which cultures were erased, people – forcefully assimilated, stripped of their own national identity.

It's the propaganda of being "the same people, the same nation" that russians love to use; that westerners love to believe, for the sole reason of the oppressed daring to look similar to the oppressor; for the sole reason of Americans being unable to look past their own history and realize oppression comes in many shapes and forms.

By using the ussr symbols in your political movement, you're denying the atrocities commited under that symbol and spreading russian propaganda, whether it's on purpose or not.

It's not "progressive" to wave around a hate symbol.

Do your research.

[hctirdle]

1970s, Romania © Andrei Pandele

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FMP Image Index

As I sourced all of the images, I had to put in a disclaimer stating that none of the original images were my own. 

The disclaimer reads 

All of the images in Red Blisters have been curated from online sources. Many of them are screenshots from films on YouTube. Where possible I’ve credited the original photographer and included a link for where the image/video can be sourced.

This is the image index

Image Index Deck - FMP Rosa Wayne

Pages 49 and 50 of deck

Cover

Small girls dance by a photo of Lenin, (digital photograph) photographer: Dilip Mehta, date unknown, featured in: A day in the life of the Soviet Union, 1987, image accessible via: https://imgur.com/gallery/EOil3

Page 5

The Sun of Russian Freedom is Smeared with Blood, (postcard) 1905, anon. accessible at https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/greetings-from-the-barricades-four-corners-books- publication-261018

The World’s Stage Page 6 The October Revolution Parade, Moscow, (screenshot from YouTube footage), Date of event:1978, photographer of original footage unknown, YouTube clip called: HD Soviet October Revolution Parade, 1978 Part I, username of YouTube account: RedSamurai84, uploaded: 18/05/2016, accessible at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7NaRIOqmSg&t=2353s

Page 7

Opening Ceremony for Munich Olympic Games, 1972, (screenshot from YouTube footage), date of event: 1972, photographer of original footage unknown YouTube clip called: Munich 1972 - Lighting of the Olympic Cauldron, username of YouTube account: MercuryuJudo, uploaded: 27/07/2012, accessible at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq4ax_GYLXY

Page 8

Olga Korbut winning gold (digital photograph), date of event: 1972, photographer: unknown, accessed via:

https://www.stern.de/sport/sportwelt/darum-verkauft-olga-korbut-ihre-olympia- medaillen-7349436.html

Page 11

Olga Korbut performing a Korbut Flip, (screenshots from YouTube footage), date of event: 1972, photographer of original footage unknown, YouTube clip called: Banned Skills: The Forbidden Club, username of YouTube account: sporteverywhere, uploaded: 06/10/2018, accessible at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktc5n_LNQcg&t=8s

Page 12

Olga Korbut and Renald Knysh, (digital photograph), date of event: 15/04/1975, photographer: unknown, webpage title: #MeToo In Belarus: Ex-Teammates Bolster Korbut’s Sexual-Assault Charges Against Coach, published on: Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Liberty, accessed via:

https://www.rferl.org/a/metoo-in-belarus-ex-teammates-bolster-korbut-s-sexual- assault-charges-against-coach/29230312.html

Page 14

Member of Black September, (digital photograph), date of event: 06/09/1972, photographer unknown, webpage title: The Munich massacre: A survivor’s story, accessed via:

https://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/27/sport/olympics-2012-munich-shaul-ladany- survivor/index.html,

Page 17

Olga Korbut Crying at the Olympics (screenshot from YouTube footage), date of event: 1972, photographer of original footage unknown, YouTube clip called: Faster, Higher, Stronger | BBC Gymnastics Documentary Part 2, username of YouTube account: Cccceri, uploaded:11/07/2012, accessible at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz54uctiYlc

Page 18 and 19

Richard Nixon and The USSR female gymnastic team, (digital photograph) photographer: unknown, date of event: 1973, image accessible via:

https://nara.getarchive.net/media/president-richard-nixon-standing-in-the-oval-office- with-members-of-the-russian-70f6e8

Control Page 20 Nadia Comaneci on beam, (digital photograph) photographer: unknown, date of event: 1976, image accessible via: https://www.olympic.org/nadia-comaneci

Page 21

Nadia Comaneci and Bela Karolyi, (digital photograph) photographer: unknown, date of event: 1976, image accessible via:https://www.pastfactory.com/culture/historic-july-events/13/

Page 22

Nadia Comaneci’s perfect 10, (digital photograph) photographer: unknown, date of event: 1976, image accessible via:

https://www.hooch.net/nadia-comanecis-path-to-success-was-full-of-heartbreak-and- struggle/?view-all&safari=1

Page 23

Nadia Comaneci and Nicolae Ceausescu, (digital photograph) photographer: unknown, date of event: 1976, image accessible via:

https://www.hooch.net/nadia-comanecis-path-to-success-was-full-of-heartbreak-and- struggle/?view-all&safari=1

Page 24

Nadia Comaneci, Bela Karolyi and Marta Karolyi, (digital photograph) photographer: unknown,dateofevent: unknown,imageaccessiblevia:http://www.cosr.ro/sportiv/nadia-comaneci/galerie-foto

Page 26

Food queues in Romania for cooking oil, (digital photograph) photographer: unknown, date of event: 1986, image accessible via:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_austerity_policy_in_Romania#/media/File:Bucur_Obor_( 1986).jpg

Page 27 (top) Nicolae Ceausescu, (digital photograph) photographer: unknown, date of event: unknown, image accessible via:https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2019/1224/1102976-romania-ceausescu-1989/

Page 27 (bottom) Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu, (digital photograph) photographer: unknown, date of event: unknown, image accessible via:https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/the-purity-of-the-propaganda- 20100803-115ee.html

Page 29

Chickens for supper in Communist Romania (digital photograph) photographer: Andrei Pandele, date of event: 1989, image accessible via:

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/vdyexm/everyday-life-in-communist-romania- 0000001-v18n9

Page 30

Nadia Comaneci, Nellie Kim and Elena Mukhina in Prague (digital photograph) photographer: Unknown, date of event: 1977, image accessible via:https://elenamukhina.com/informazioni/

Page 31

Scoreboard, 1977 European gymnastic championships finals, (screenshots from YouTube footage), date of event: 1977, photographer of original footage unknown, YouTube clip called: 1977 European Women’s Gymnastics Championships - Event Finals, username of YouTube account: Gymgold07, uploaded: 07/09/2016, accessible at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BKnqIea1ko&t=3682s

Page 32

Romanian revolutionaries, (digital photograph) photographer: Patrick Herzog, date of event: 1989, image accessible via:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/thirty-years-brutal-christmas-day-downfall- ceausescu-romanias/

Page 33

Nadia Comaneci’s arrival in JFK, (screenshots from YouTube footage), date of event: 1989, photographer of original footage unknown, YouTube clip called: The Mystery and Magic of Nadia (1990), username of YouTube account: Gymgold07, uploaded: unknown, accessible at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAGG03ZK5IQ&t=1201s

Page 34 + 35 Execution of Elena and Nicolae Ceausescu (digital photograph) photographer: unknown, date of event: 25/12/1989, image accessible via:https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/long-reads/ceausescu-romania- bucharest-communism-politics-history-a9234806.html

Fragility Page 37 (all) Elena Mukhina in training, (screenshots from YouTube footage), date of event: unknown, photographer of original footage unknown, YouTube clip called: Elena Mukhina training compilation, username of YouTube account: Classic Gymnastics, uploaded: unknown, accessible at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDrRr52kLQ8

Page 38 + 39 Elena Mukhina competing at the European Championship finals, (screenshots from YouTube footage), date of event: 1977, photographer of original footage unknown, YouTube clip called: 1977 European Women’s Gymnastics Championships - Event Finals, username of YouTube account: Gymgold07, uploaded: 07/09/2016, accessible at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BKnqIea1ko&t=3682s

Page 40

Elena Mukhina in Strasburg (digital photograph) photographer: unknown, date of event: 1978, image accessible via: https://elenamukhina.com/informazioni/

Page 43

Elena Mukhina and Mikhail Klimenko, (screenshots from YouTube footage), event date: unknown, photographer of original footage unknown, YouTube clip called: Elena Mukhina - Triumph of a spirit! username of YouTube account: Oksana Stein, uploaded: 03/10/2017, accessible at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hwKNaWp-YU&t=767s

Page 44

Brezhnev reclining in the Crimea (digital photograph) photographer: unknown, date of event: 1982, image accessible via:https://www.rferl.org/a/photos-from-the-1980s-in-russia/28373160.html

Page 47

Elena Mukhina after her accident, (screenshots from YouTube footage), event date: unknown, photographer of original footage unknown, YouTube clip called: Elena Mukhina - Triumph of a spirit, username of YouTube account: Oksana Stein, uploaded: 03/10/2017, accessible at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hwKNaWp-YU&t=767s

[rudyroth79]

Știri: Festivalul Internațional de Fotografie de la Tel Aviv (23 noiembrie 2017–2 decembrie 2017) În perioada 23 noiembrie–2 decembrie 2017, în diverse locații alternative din Tel Aviv, va avea loc…

[uno-universal]

Andrei Pandele Bukareszt, kwiecień 1982

[aninmotion]

2 Minutes Film

My initial idea was to record my mother talking about her childhood since she lived her first 17 years during Communist Romania. I asked my brother to record her talking about different moments in her childhood regarding the communist regime. 

I started researching images from anytime between 1973 to 1`989 when the communist regime ended in Romania, regarding the living situation,school system,etc.. to get an idea to what I could do visually. 

I also managed to get in touch with Andrei Pandele, “the only Romanian photographer  who had big enough balls to systematically depict the Ceaușescu era of the 1970s and 80s. This was a time when taking a snap showing hardships, such as people queueing for bread, was seen as a “denigration of the socialist reality” and could land you six years in prison. “ according to Vice.com.

They provided me with a 15 minutes long audio recording, sadly she dis not have strong feelings regarding that time period, the recording was lacking authenticity and did not inspire me to do any visuals.

Sadly I gave up on this idea and started looking for something different.

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Flux24.ro : Mare e grădina lui Dumnezeu !

„Cuviosul Pandele A CITAT-O, evlavios și patriotic, pe însăși Maica Domnului”

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Paranghelie religioasă la Voluntari. În urmă cu două săptămâni, edilul Florentin Pandele a organizat un pelerinaj la Catedrala Sfintei Parascheva din localitate, unde personalitățile centrale și locale au ocupat pridvorul lăcașului de cult, iar mulțimea s-a îmbrâncit și s-a înghesuit să pupe moaștele.Din multitudinea de discursuri, se evidențiază, evident, cel al lui Pandele. Soțul Gabrielei Firea a citat-o, evalvios și patriotic, pe însăși „Maica Domnului, care spunea că România este grădina Maicii Domnului“!, scrie b1.ro.

Mare e grădina lui Dumnezeu!, afirmă Andrei Pleșu. Scriitorul notează într-un articol pentru Dilema Veche, două lucruri “epocale” din discursul edilului.

 “1. Dl Pandele are, în biblioteca sa, o raritate absolută: o colecție de ziceri ale Sfintei Fecioare, din care a putut spicui un pasaj.

 2. Maica Domnului avea o (profetică) informație despre existența viitoare a unei țări numite România. Și o iubea ca pe propria Sa grădină. Ce poți să mai spui? Mare e grădina lui Dumnezeu!”, scrie el.

Alte imagini memorabile îl au în prim-plan pe Gigi Becali, care căsca strămoșește, pe Gabi Firea, pupată de popor, și mulțimea care pupă moaștele.

SFINȚII PRIMARI! Imagini SCANDALOASE de la paranghelia religioasă organizată de cuplul Pandele-Firea. Invitați de onoare: Becali, Nețoiu și câteva vedete tv

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1.Foto de Andrei Pandele

2.Foto de Mircea Cartarescu 

3.Foto de niños en “clínicas” durante la dictadura comunista rumana

[news24hrou]

GALERIE FOTO. La Ceaușescu acasă. Imagini nedifuzate până acum din România comunistă: cozi la carne, omor pe tramvaie, revoluție la metrou Andrei Pandele era un tânăr arhitect în anii 70, când s-a apucat de fotografiat societatea comunistă ce se degrada pe zi ce trece. ”Nu existau planuri, se demola după blunul plac al dictatorului. Atunci am decis să trag cadre. La început, a fost periculos. În primul an și jumătate m-au interogat de 30 de ori”, își aduce aminte. După 1989, pozele sale au fost expuse în mai multe țări, pentru a aduce aminte de cea mai neagră perioadă din istoria noastră https://ift.tt/2Gs5tc3

[vicero]

Andrei Pandele a documentat satul românesc din anii ’70, până-n zilele noastre

[rosawayneisawesome]

FMP Pages 28 and 29

I wanted to draw a comparison between the control/authoritarian leadership style of Ceausescu and Karolyi. I have done this through comparing the diets they allowed the people who they controlled, whether it’s citizens, in the case of Ceausescu, or gymnasts in the case of Karolyi. 

The image is by Andrei Pandele, he took lots of stunning photos of Ceausescu’s Romania. This is a photo of chickens, which were minuscule at the time. Pandele said of this image 

‘1989. Chickens often weighed less than a half a pound and were smaller than pigeons. There was always a food shortage. Outside Bucharest, finding bread was a real problem. To get bread in Bucharest you had to get in line at the break of day. Meat wasn’t sold at all, unless you knew the right people.’ https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vdyexm/everyday-life-in-communist-romania-0000001-v18n9

Text reads

The Bela Karolyi diet for young, female gymnasts

Breakfast: One apple

Lunch: A salad + half a portion of a main course from the hotel

Snacks: Raw carrots

Prescribed to his American gymnasts, while on tour in Barcelona

Nicolae Ceausescu’s Rational Nourishing Programme

Bread 300g per day

Poultry 1kg per month

Pork/Beef 500g per month

Salted Cheese 165g per month

Butter 100g per month

Oil 750ml per month

Sugar 1kg per month

Eggs 8-12 per month

Flour 285g per month

Prescribed to each family in the Romanian city of Galati

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Știri: Proiecția lungmetrajului ”O secundă de viaţă” în regia lui Ioan Cărmăzan, la Istanbul (29 aprilie 2017) Sâmbătă, 29 aprilie 2017, la ora 15.00, la Centrul Cultural Akbank (Şehit Muhtar Mahallesi, İstiklal Cd. No.8, 34435, Beyoğlu) va avea loc proiecția peliculei…

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2 Minutes Film, Grad Film Assistance, End of the Year Self Reflection

2 Minutes Film Self Reflection

Starting this project I did not feel very confident in doing this from the beginning. I felt tired and burnt out from all of the previous projects but still pushed myself to do something.

I started with the initial idea of creating a Communist Memories Documentary based on my mom’s stories. I asked my brother to record her as they met up more often than me and her. They provided me with the recording fairly soon, sadly, after listening through the recording there was little to no emotion to be heard and the audio was difficult to inspire a visual narrative, at least for me in that point in time. In the meantime I searched online for images and articles about life during that period in Romania, even got in touch with  Andrei Pandele, “the only Romanian photographer  who had big enough balls to systematically depict the Ceaușescu era of the 1970s and 80s. This was a time when taking a snap showing hardships, such as people queueing for bread, was seen as a “denigration of the socialist reality”, to request images and permission to use them in my film to which he agreed. 

Seeing as it was not working out well I spent some time doodling and trying to create a random story with randomly made characters, created the animatic with them but it still felt lacking. 

Final idea was a film about my emotional state throughout the year, attempting to use a looser sketch like style and requested the sound designer,  Parthhesh Menon, to created musical foley for the sounds. I created a time sheet of when and how long each sound needs to be and sent it off to him. He did amazing despite everything. We had a lack of communication, I believe mainly on my part as I was getting more and more demotivated by the day and especially after the lock down started, it all went down very fast.

Grad Film Assistance

In the beginning, my partner, Sueli Ruiz was not available to provide work for about a week and looking for some hours to do I helped Ka Man with props making, decorating the underground station.

I was very excited to work on a pixilation film, especially with Sueli Ruiz as we have quite a good relationship. During the shooting I felt that Sueli had some issues directing a few times as she was explaining to the actor what she wants to do but sometimes I she would not give me any directions on what kind of picture she’s like me to take: low, high shutter speed, smudgy, colour, etc. Since I was not sure at first I asked a few times but eventually I gave up and did more guess work based on what I thought she’s want. From her feedback it seems that the pictures I took were perfect the way they were. It was rather enjoyable and fun to work on this project as it was very experimental when it comes to the camera work and we tried a variety of things in front of the lenses to create new effects. 

In the end with Sueli I have helped with a variety of typography for her poster on based on the image she provided me with.

After some time I realised I did not have a lot of hours in this project and I got in touch with Weronika who provided me with a variety of characters to create gifs for her film, sadly I didn’t manage to do anything for that as it was getting more and more difficult to keep my morale and motivation up.

Final Thoughts

Throughout the second half of the year I found it more and more difficult to keep going, every week getting worse. I tried pushing myself and keeping myself motivated but it didn’t work for long. Once quarantine started it became even worse. I tried working from home, sadly I feel that I lost all motivation, especially since my family was dealing with some issues that also distracted me from working on projects as I had to work towards helping them and myself at the same time. 

I ended up mentally drained and exhausted, the projects became a difficulty that was in the way of life, work, home related issues that needed immediate attention. I just wish for this whole year to be over and start fresh in October. 

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Adevarul.ro : Planul de guvernare merge mai departe

Andrei Pleşu

Cum a cîştigat PSD alegerile? Cu un proiect de guvernare gîndit ca ”România să prospere şi tot românul să fie bine” (Ion Luca Caragiale, O scrisoare pierdută, Actul III, scena 6). Poporul a luat-o de bună şi a votat pentru. (Nu chiar tot poporul, ci doar niţel peste 3 milioane de optimişti candizi.) În cîteva luni, s-a putut vedea că altele erau scopurile reale ale cîştigătorilor.

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Scopuri ”omeneşti”, utile pentru ”noi şi-ai noştri”, mici aranjamente care să-i pună la adăpost de procese (şi la o adică de pedepse), mici manevre – nu prea discrete – care să-i apere pe ei, pe prietenii, pe sponsorii, pe rudele, pe şefii şi pe subordonaţii lor de neplăceri ”meschine”, cum ar fi, de pildă, anularea titlurilor de ”doctor”, invocarea ”abuzului în serviciu” pentru mici – şi fireşti – găinării de duzină, bîrfa răutăcioasă în jurul unor fatale slăbiciuni omeneşti, cum ar fi promovarea la rang de ministru a unor dudui zglobii, fidele şi poliglote, cu mare experienţă administrativă ca secretare de şcoală generală sau ca primari cu centură neagră, pendulînd între Vadim Tudor, Gigi Becali şi L.Dragnea.

Că programul generos de guvernare avea gustul unei savarine de carton era uşor de anticipat. Dar programul celălalt (nu prea bine ascuns) a mers binişor, cu o mică bîlbîială, în ianuarie, cînd s-a încercat validarea furtivă a Ordonanţei 13. Dar putem fi încă încrezători în limitarea drastică a pragului pentru abuz în serviciu, în oarecari perspective pentru amnistieri şi graţieri, iar, de curînd, în reamenajarea Consiliului Naţional de Atestare a Titlurilor, Diplomelor si Certificatelor Universitare (CNATDCU), în aşa fel încît lucrările (false) de doctorat ale unor personalităţi de vîrf ale partidului să nu mai fie contestate de tot soiul de răuvoitori. Miniştrii de resort au limitat (”îmbunătăţind”) atribuţiile CNATDCU, provocînd cîteva demisii ”utile” (în primul rînd pe aceea a dlui academician Marius Andruh, care condusese competent şi onest instituţia reformată salutar de fostul ministru Mircea Dumitru) şi îngropînd totul în cantitate (de o calitate discutabilă): au apărut brusc 140 de noi membri (!), iar Consiliul General al comisiei a fost ”îmbogăţit” cu 8 inşi, oameni ”de dialog”, oameni de înţeles… În felul acesta, cei care au avut proasta inspiraţie să semnaleze infracţiunile academice ale dlor Ponta, Oprea, Tobă, Pandele şi Negoiţă au fost sancţionaţi. (Dl profesor Mircea Bob, de pildă, de la Cluj). Dna Ecaterina Andronescu, mămica patrioţilor care copiază, fură şi inventează Academii alternative a învins încă odată! Nu vreau să mă refer la numele noilor veniţi în CNATDCU. Pe cei mai mulţi dintre ei, chiar dacă reprezintă domenii de care nu sunt întru totul străin, nu-i cunosc. Nu pot, totuşi, să nu contemplu cu perplexitate, prospeţimea pe care o va aduce în instituţie dl academician Al. Boboc, absolvent de filozofie din anii `50, criticul cel mai avizat, din unghi materialist-dialectic, al filosofiei contemporane occidentale, auutor al unor traduceri din germană, celebre pentru comicele lor contra-sensuri…

Dar toate astea se petrec pe neobservate. La vedere e amuţitorul spectacol politic oferit gratis (dar cu încă greu previzibile costuri pentru ţară), de răsfăţatul amorului public, Partidul Social-Democrat. Cum să explici, să zicem, unui ins normal din afara graniţelor, ce se întîmplă la noi? Nu e de ici de colo să vezi un preşedinte de partid supărat rău pe guvernul numit de el însuşi, ca şi cum i-ar fi fost impus de duşmani ”acoperiţi” ai naţiei. Nu e de ici de colo să vezi mari prietenii şi alianţe prăbuşindu-se în ură (Ponta-Dragnea, Tăriceanu-Constantin etc.). Nu e de ici de colo ca un partid ”mîndru că e român”, să se înamoreze de un (eventual) prim-ministru turco-tătar şi să vrea să dea la cap unor co-naţionali şi colegi de gaşcă, recurgînd la sprijinul UDMR. E drept că dna Shhaideh dă dovadă de mare subtitilitate intelectuală şi morală. Am auzit-o declarînd, pe un post de televiziune, că totul se explică prin faptul că Sorin Grindeanu e ofticat de preferinţa iniţială a dlui Dragnea pentru ea şi nu pentru el. Carevasăzică, poker-ul e în toi! Suntem în plină psihanaliză! Anything goes! Ce evaluator mai competent al guvernului incompetent ar fi fost mai potrivit decît domnul Darius Vâlcov, cel care, nu de mult, ascundea tablouri de valoare obţinute prin mijloace suspecte, prin pereţi falşi şi cimitire? Şi să nu se mai spună că stăm prost cu ”politically correctness”!  Ne bazăm, ca puţini alţii, pe mari spirite livrate de feminitate: adevărate ”femei-bărbate”, pe lîngă care de-alde Merkel, Thatcher, Hillary Clinton sunt triste embleme ale plictiselii. Ia uitaţi-vă la fîşneaţa intelectuală Olguţa, la şefa Pandele, la dna poliţist Carmen Dan! Nu pot să nu-mi aduc aminte de un cuplet cîntat  pe vremuri la Teatrul ”Constatin Tănase”: ”Femei, femei, femei, o lume plină de idei…”

Nimeni nu scapă întreg (la cap) din vînzoleala actualei guvernări. Păi să ajungi să-ţi placă Grindeanu?! Să te dai cu Ponta?! Să te ocupi de Dragnea, care, fie îmbufnat, fie şugubăţ, tot ca un mărunţel şef de post arată? Pe mîinile cui am ajuns? Ce i-a mînat în luptă pe cei 3 şi ceva de milioane (din 18) de români, care au luat în serios fîţîiala electorală a actualului partid de (pseudo)guvernămînt? E drept că nici spre alte zări nu se putea privi cu argumente solide… Nu ne rămîne decît să ne distrăm (înainte de înec…), după vechi modele caragialeşti. Se luptă tabăra lui Farfuridi, cu tabăra lui Caţavencu. Iar nenea Iancu rezumă astfel ce se vede: ”Zgomot, învălmăşeală, ghionteli”. Să trăiască clonele coanei Joiţica: Olguţa, Gabi, Carmen, Sevil. Că ”e dame bune!”

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Andrei Pandele, Morning commuters in Bucharest, Romania, 1982.