According to a false narrative that ignores Gyr’s involvement in legionary crimes, Radu Gyr, an anti‑communist and devout Christian, is portrayed as the only person ever sentenced to death for writing a poem. This narrative follows a decades‑long pattern of attempts to rehabilitate legionary figures or even the Legionary Movement as a whole.
After the collapse of communist regimes in the early 1990s, the nations of Central and Eastern Europe faced a pivotal choice: embrace Western-style democracy and market economics, or remain in the post-Soviet sphere. Today, more than three decades on, the results of that choice are stark.
The gap between Russia and the European Union in living standards, wages, and the rule of law seems obvious at first glance. Yet, in today’s world of populism and increasingly sophisticated propaganda, even such basic truths require careful restatement.
Just like the Legionnaires and the Communists did before them, the Sovereignists have invented their own "enemies of the people and of the country", whom they demonize through visual propaganda. The targets include the EU, Ukraine, Soros, CCR, LGBTQ+, Nicușor Dan and Mugur Isărescu.
The so-called “blacklists” have recently remerged in Romania – they are particularly circulated by Călin Georgescu’s supporters. In Romania, blacklists have a rather dark history, as they were used by extremists to take out their opponents.
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Those that denounced the crimes of communism were defeated in Putin's Russia and must now find the resources to start over, according to a Russian historian from the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Memorial human rights organization.
Graphic or militant (political) satire was one of the main methods of castigating the enemy of the people in communist systems.
Communist-era monuments in Bulgaria were a point of fiery debates. Chaotic plans for their removal were not followed by a vision for the future.
Sputnik has now joined the current trying to rehabilitate Nicolae Ceaușescu and advance the idea that he was a great leader and patriot, and Romania thrived under Ceaușescu. Some of the concepts are similar to those of proto-chronism, national-communism and sovereigntist lines of thought.
