Last week, the Minister of Culture, Bogdan Gheorghiu, highlighted the importance of the Museum of Communist Terror for those who survived the communist period, but also for today’s young people.
“This museum will help the generations that lived in communism to overcome the collective trauma through cultural expressions that can offer the feeling of resolution, whether mental, physical or spiritual, to the grey existence, lack of freedom and resources for a dignified life before 1989.”
“These abuses are unimaginable for future generations, who want to become more aware of the importance of democracy,” Minister Bogdan Gheorghiu said Friday, December 4, in a press release.
The Government approved in its December 4 meeting the administrative structure, activities, and financing of the Museum of Communist Horrors in Romania.
The museum, an institution subordinated to the Culture Ministry, will showcase the realities of Romania’s social, economic, and cultural life between 1945 and 1989.
“We are obliged to know the history because whoever forgets, risks repeating it,” the Minister noted.
The museum will be temporarily located inside the HQ of the National Library of Romania. It will be financed by the state, from the Culture Ministry’s budget, and its activities, donations, and sponsorships.
During communism, 800,000 people died and more than 3 million suffered in the 44 prisons and 72 labour camps of the totalitarian regime, the Culture Ministry explained.
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