The terraforming of Romanian society.

Terraforming is the process of forming the Earth, but it can also be a metaphor for the destructuring of a society.
After 1990, Romania achieved the unique feat of resetting and reversing the entire evolution of Romanian society from the Revolution of 1848 to the fall of communism in 1989.
The tragic situation the country finds itself in now stems from the beheading of Romanian society under communism.

 

"Romania is wallowing in a mediocrity that it seems like it has never been in. In times of crisis, Romania had the resources to mobilize its intellectual side a little better. There, somewhere, underground, there are still some small resources. It's the first time in 150 years when you look and get scared: people with very strange careers, people who know nothing, it's hard to explain how they appeared, what they are looking for in those positions."  

Armand Goșu, on the catastrophic quality of the Romanian state administration: "It's the first time in 150 years when you look and get scared."

https://ziare.com/armand-gosu/armand-gosu-diplomatie-invazie-ukraina-pozitie-romania-1771297

In the first stage, the country's political and intellectual elite (primarily those with studies abroad) was decimated, tortured and killed in prisons according to the Stalinist model, as the torturer Franz Tandara acknowledged ( https://www.observatorcultural.ro/articol/cuvinte-pentru-comunisti-o-convorbire-cu-tortionarul-frant-tandara-2/ ).  

In the second stage, the political and intellectual elite was replaced with the "hopeful cadres" of the communist regime according to the 1947 NKVD Directive for the Eastern countries in the Soviet orbit.

35.  From elementary schools, specialized schools, but especially from high schools and faculties, valuable teachers who enjoy popularity must be removed. Their places must be occupied by people appointed by us, with a weak or mediocre level of training. The differences between the subjects must be analyzed, the amount of documentary material must be reduced, and in high schools the teaching of Latin and ancient Greek, general philosophy, logic and genetics must be stopped. History textbooks must not mention which of the rulers served or wanted to serve the good of the country. The greed and wickedness of every king, the harmful effect of the monarchy and the struggle of the oppressed people must be insisted on. In specialized schools, narrow specialization must be introduced . (sn)

44. Efforts will be made to ensure that those working in various positions, no matter how small, are changed and replaced with workers with the least professional training, unskilled (sn).

45. Those who come from the lowest social categories, those who are not interested in improving themselves at a high level, but only in obtaining a diploma (sn) must be given priority or exclusively access to faculties."

Christopher Andrew & Oleg Gordievski -  KGB. The Secret History of Its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev  , ALL Publishing House, Bucharest, 1994, p.487-492

 

The final result was negative social selection and ultimately the economic and social collapse that led to the fall of communism. 

In the last stage, namely after the 1989 Revolution and the fall of communism, freedom was obtained through the sacrifice of citizens, but not for their benefit.
In December 2006, the Report of the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship defined the Securitate as "an illegal, illegitimate and criminal institution from its beginning to its end", but the lustration law was adopted only 20 years (!) after the fall of communism ( https://www.romania-actualitati.ro/stiri/romania/legea-lustratiei-adoptata-de-parlament-id34614.html ). 

This did not prevent a former Securitate officer from running for the 2025 presidential elections and from being implicated without consequences in the failed coup d'état of 2026 ( https://anchetatorii.ro/2026/01/13/somerul-de-la-viena-sprijinit-de-rezervistii-din-servicii-marcel-ciolacu-si-rares-bogdan-reteaua-hant-apropiatii-lui-silviu-predoiu-implicati-in-lovitura-de-stat-esuata-si-tentativa-de-e/ )
. As a result, the Romanian state was captured and privatized. Strictly speaking, we are talking about a wild state capitalism in which the country's resources were drained through occult means into the pockets of private individuals, starting with the patrimony and public budget inherited from communism and ending with European funds delayed or blocked for those entitled and directed towards political clientele.*)

The explanation lies in the nature of the Romanian political system in which there is no real parliamentary control over the secret services. The political parties in Parliament do not control, but are controlled by the secret services which have never renounced the former Securitate.**) 

The result is a phantasmagorical construction like the impossible objects in Meinong's jungle, or a double reality in which something hides something else, and the goods inside do not correspond to the packaging displayed on the outside (freedom, democracy, rule of law, etc.)

Through this difficult-to-understand social anamorphosis, Romania constantly has an ambiguous message (signaling can be on the right, and the route can be followed on the left, or vice versa), which has been confusing NATO, the European Union and the free world for 37 years, not to mention Romanian citizens who no longer know who to vote for. 

How did it get here? By destructuring the Romanian state and society, respectively, simultaneously attacking the top of the social pyramid and its base. 

Before the establishment of communism, Romania had a status, prestige, and a voice recognized at European and global levels, but this situation had to be adapted and adjusted according to the regime's ideology. 

After the establishment of communism, the social pyramid was inverted, but this sinister social engineering of decivilization and forced indoctrination did not achieve its goal. 

Society managed to resist communism and survive through the education received by citizens under the previous political regime, but paradoxically collapsed after the fall of communism and the establishment of "original democracy" as the first post-communist president called it.  

After the fall of communism, respectively the control and censorship of the regime and its internal regulations that kept everything under control and in relative balance, the media accredited the idea that freedom and democracy mean "freedom for everything". 

The motto of this mentality of social predators was planted since 1991 precisely in the Romanian Constitution and has remained unchanged to this day:

 

Article 44. THE RIGHT TO PRIVATE PROPERTY

(8) Property acquired lawfully may not be confiscated. The lawful nature of the acquisition shall be presumed (sn).
(9) Property intended for, used in, or resulting from crimes or misdemeanors (sn) may be confiscated only under the terms of the law.

The impact of this social engineering measure, which was initially intended only for the new political class that emerged after the fall of communism, was terrible. Following the model offered by post-communist politicians, mainly repainted from former nomenclature and Securitate cadres (the rest were monitored and put on display as advertisements), a reset of political, professional, cultural, religious and moral codes took place in society, allowing access to resources and power for the new political class, much more rapacious than the one under communism. 

The only solution for the access to power of a class in conflict with the values ​​of democracy and the rule of law was to relax the standards of competence, responsibility and morality.

At a general level, the result was a process of disinhibition, desensitization, decivilization, and dehumanization of society.

A simple comparison  between the competence and moral legitimacy of those who led Romania in the past and the competence and moral legitimacy of those who lead it now  is edifying.

In just 37 years, post-communist governments have achieved the remarkable feat of compromising the standards of competence and morality for the most important ministries through the trivial behavior of senior  state officials accused of plagiarism ( https://hotnews.ro/ministrii-acuzati-de-plagiat-scandalurile-care-au-zguduit-guvernele-romaniei-cati-dintre-ei-au-demisionat-in-urma-acuzatiilor-2147948 ). 

Plagiarists in Romanian governements ( 1990-2026 )

The scandal at the top of the political pyramid was just the tip of the iceberg. If in the period 1900-1989 1,500 doctorate degrees were awarded, almost entirely in higher education, where the title conditioned promotion and certified, at the same time, scientific research, in the period 1990-2016 there was an explosion of "diligence and research", libraries, archives, etc. being stormed by teachers, lawyers, police officers, prefects, ministers, parliamentarians, etc., the number of theses exceeding 67,000! (Emilia Sercan - Doctorate  Factory or How the Foundations of a Nation Collapse , Humanitas Publishing House, Bucharest, 2017 ). 

Let us now compare the social prestige (pragmatic legitimacy, cognitive legitimacy, status, reputation) of these high-ranking post-communist civil servants with the social prestige of a high-ranking civil servant from the political regime prior to communism who was rewarded with imprisonment by the new political system established by force: 

                        A personality between two eras. Victor Gomoiu                                                   (1882-1960)

Victor Gomoiu

Personal data
Born	April 18,  1882  Vanju Mare ,  Romania
Deceased	February 6,  1960 (77 years old)  Bucharest ,  Romania
Buried	Bellu Cemetery
Citizenship	Romania
Religion	deism
Occupation	pathologist [*] surgeon [*] anatomist [*] anthropologist [ *] medical historian [*] folklorist [*]
Languages ​​spoken	Romanian language
Activity
field	anatomy surgery Romanian folklore history of medicine
Institution	University of Bucharest
Alma Mater	University of Bucharest
organizations	Académie internationale d'histoire des sciences [*]
Political career
Minister of Health
In office July 4, 1940 – September 14, 1940
Preceded by	Nicolae Hortolomei
Succeeded by	Vasile Iasinschi
Political party	FRN  Nation Party

Victor Gomoiu (April 18, 1882, Vânju Mare, Romania – February 6, 1960, Bucharest, Romania) 

was a surgeon and medical historian, who served as Minister of Health and Social Protection (September 4, 1940 - September 14, 1940) in the Ion Antonescu government. ^[ 1 ]

Victor Gomoiu was a surgeon and medical historian who served as Minister of Health (1940). Currently, there is a pediatric hospital in Bucharest named "Gomoiu". In the town of Vânju Mare is the "Dr. Victor Gomoiu Theoretical High School". Although his name and achievements were highly appreciated at the time, he was imprisoned twice, for one month in 1934 during the Carlist regime and for four years and four months (1950-1954) during the communist regime.

A protégé of  Queen Elena , Gomoiu fell out of favor with King  Carol II , being arrested in 1934 for protesting against him. ^{[ 2 ] [ source not confirmed ]}

Although he was Minister of Health in two  extreme right-wing governments  ( the government led by  Ion Gigurtu  and  the first government of General  Ion Antonescu ), Gomoiu distinguished himself during World War II  as a protector of Jews deported to  the Transnistrian Government . He intervened with Queen Elena to free his friend  Barbu Lăzăreanu , a communist militant of Jewish origin, from the camp. A Swiss journalist reported that "Gomoiu was such a good man that he could not imagine the horrors that Romanian Jews were going through". He personally visited and cared for Jews in the camps in Transnistria, threatening the queen that he would leave the country and denounce  Ion Antonescu if the deportations continued.

Despite these positions, but also his international reputation, Gomoiu was persecuted by the communist regime. He was imprisoned in the prisons of Sighet and  Aiud . Released in 1954, he refused to work in the Ministry of Health, considering this to be a form of "collaborationism". He died in 1960, being rehabilitated post-mortem in the 1980s (sn).

Prominent medical personality

For more than half a century, academician Victor Gomoiu dominated the environments in which he worked as a surgeon, medical historiographer, health organizer, etc. He excelled in several fields such as science, technology, social assistance and art. He was one of the founders of the study of the History of Romanian Medicine, by publishing in 1923 the book "Din istoria medicinii și învățământului medical românesc", by founding the Romanian Society for the History of Romanian Medicine in 1929 and organizing in Bucharest the 9th Congress of the International Society for the History of Medicine in 1932. On February 1, 1936, Victor Gomoiu was elected president of the International Society for the History of Medicine-Paris, being the first Romanian to reach such a position. He held this position until 1958. The Oltean doctor fought in both world wars, being decorated for acts of heroism. He founded and led the Union of Reserve and Retired Officers. He had great merits in founding hospitals in Bucharest, Mangalia, Vânju Mare, Turnu Severin, etc. He was a member of 17 academies of science. He was an exceptional cultural personality. His debut in literature occurred early, in 1906 we find him a member of the Editorial Committee of the poporanist magazine "Şezătoarea săteanului", a colleague with  George Coșbu c and G. Dumitrescu Bumbești-Jiu. He conducted medical research in Romanian folk poetry.

Museum of Medicine in Craiova and also Târgu-Jiu

In 1972, Dr. Viorica Gomoiu donated a rich documentary and museum collection to the University of Craiova for the founding of the "Victor Gomoiu" medical and pharmaceutical museum, which was inaugurated in 1974. His memoirs, kept secret, were studied, partially communicated but published only in 2006. Since 1963, pharmacists Gheorghe Cismărescu (1900-1964) and Nicolae Zahacinschi (1919-1988) organized, in Craiova, a collection of the history of pharmacy, initially at the House of the Doctor and Pharmacist. After 10 years, under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Mihail Șcheau (from Găvănești), a passionate researcher of the history of medicine, the "Victor Gomoiu" Museum of the History of Medicine and Pharmacy, affiliated with the  University of Craiova , was founded . The core of the Museum is the donation of Dr. Viorica Gomoiu, which includes the most valuable museum pieces collected throughout his life by the great surgeon and medical historian Prof. Dr. Doc. Victor Gomoiu. Conceived as a didactic, scientific and cultural-educational base, the Museum's collections were later enriched with over 100 valuable donations from Romanian medical and pharmacist personalities (Dr. Ion Jianu, Dr. Odiseu Apostol, Dr. Ion Vasilescu, Dr. Gheorghe Magheru, Acad. Ștefan Milcu, etc.), as well as donations from students of the Faculty of Medicine in Craiova. Being based in a reclaimed building, the museum was evacuated and the collections divided after 1990. Currently, part of them is at the “Constantin Brâncuși” University in Târgu-Jiu, another part at the “Theodor Aman” Art Museum in Craiova (especially paintings with heritage value) and only a small part at the Department of History of Medicine at the University of Medicine Craiova.

The Story of the Hospital in the Vergului Barrier

Professor Doctor Victor Gomoiu had the idea of ​​building the hospital that today, deservedly, bears his name. In 1927, this rare work of charity for those rather troubled times was completed. At the time, it was called the “Saint Elena” Hospital. The plans, the supervision of the construction, as well as obtaining the necessary funds are due to the same doctor, a surgeon. Victor Gomoiu, after several days and nights of study, sketched the construction plans with his own hand, modifying the initial plan of the architect Gheorghe Șimotta, thus imagining a huge complex with free medical assistance services, with five major medical specialties: internal diseases, surgery, obstetrics-gynecology, pediatrics and dentistry. We must remember here that the architect Gheorghe Șimotta, an Aromanian by origin, lived between 1891 and 1979 and had an extremely prodigious activity, among his creations being: the Patriarchal Palace, the Dărvari Hermitage Church, as well as the buildings at 19 CARosetti Street, 31 Magheru Boulevard, the building at the intersection of Dacia Boulevard and Eminescu Street, at 2 Modrogan Alley, etc. Surgeon Victor Gomoiu was harshly criticized at the time for the unwelcoming place he chose to build a hospital. Especially because the only source of water at that time was a pump located a few hundred meters from the future settlement. To these, the doctor replied: “this hospital can be of real help to the poor people on the outskirts”. It was towards these needy people that the attention of the doctor and man Victor Gomoiu was directed. At first, the hospital was known as the “Medical and Social Assistance Complex at the Vergului Barrier” and had no less than 10 offices, by specialty, two laboratories, a pharmacy and 60 beds for the sick. The hospital would even be cited as a model by the Sanitary Section of the League of Nations in Geneva.

It was not easy for Victor Gomoiu to raise the money to build this building. The doctor traveled many roads and knocked on many doors to give life to his endeavor. Most of the money would come, through public subscription, from the  National Bank ,  the Romanian Railways  and the Ministry of Labor. The Ministry of Health also contributed, but with a negligible amount. Doctor Victor Gomoiu committed, in exchange for the money collected, to provide free medical assistance to the employees of these institutions for a period of 10 years.

Although it did not receive substantial funding, the hospital built by Victor Gomoiu enjoyed great popularity among the population. After World War II, the hospital specialized in pediatrics, being named the “23 August” Children's Hospital, and in 1990, the doctor was granted a judicial act and the hospital was named the “Prof. Dr. Victor Gomoiu” Children's Clinical Hospital. ^[ 3 ]

Notes

1. ^  "archive copy" . Archived from  the original  on October 6, 2011Accessed in January 15, 2011.
2. ^  http://www.procesulcomunismului.com/marturii/fonduri/ioanitoiu/dictionar_fg/g/dictionarg_25.pdf
3. ^  Victor Gomoiu, a native of Olt with outstanding achievements in medicine | Vertical , www.verticalonline.ro

Source :  https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Gomoiu

Victor Gomoiu's memorial house in Vânju Mare (Mehedinti County)

The conclusion is devastating. There is no comparison between the Romanian elite before communism and the post-communist elite (?).

After the destruction of the previous social elite in communism, negative social selection continued in post-communism when mediocrities were obstinately promoted.
Romania gained freedom, but lost touch with the past and its previous evolution and lost the start.
It progressed economically, but regressed socially, culturally and humanly, entering a state of parabiosis in which people convicted of crimes became parliamentarians or were even congratulated as in the case of the 11 convicted criminals decorated by the Presidential Administration  ( https://www.gandul.ro/stiri/lista-celor-11-condamnati-penal-care-raman-cu-cele-mai-inalte-distinctii-din-romania-presedintele-nu-poate-fi-obligat-sa-retraga-o-decoratie-10978067 ).

Generating a state of parabiosis, the overthrow of the value system
and moral confusion in Romanian society

The destruction of society's authentic elites, the degradation of social, cultural, and moral values, and negative social selection, has overturned the hierarchy of values ​​and  through the domino effect  has affected the entire social body, establishing anomaly, abnormality, and absurdity as the social norm. 

Romania is the only country in the European Union where there are special pensions, including for former torturers under communism, and the only country where judges who have special pensions retire at 47 years old, and the effects are seen in the post-communist (in)justice in which the corrupt majors escaped both prison and the money they took (  https://romania.europalibera.org/a/marian-vanghelie-scapa-definitiv-de-condamnare-prescriere/33353163.html ). 

Source:  https://adevarul.ro/politica/in-ce-conditii-se-pot-pensiona-magistratii-din-2490789.html

Essentially, society has entered a vicious circle through system settings. Negative social selection has led to the degradation of the educational system.

( https://www.edupedu.ro/in-cei-35-de-ani-de-dupa-1989-am-avut-30-de-ministri-ai-educatiei-iar-intre-1881-1916-au-fost-10-ministri-multi-dintre-ei-somitati-spune-nicolae-noica-directorul-bibliotecii-academiei-romane-cum/ )  and vice versa. 

At a general level, the decline in the level of education and civilization of the population ( https://hotnews.ro/studiu-oficial-al-ministerului-educatiei-aproape-40-dintre-adultii-din-romania-sunt-in-zona-analfabestismului-functional-la-citire-si-calcul-1986231 ) has led to a social regression on all levels.  

Romania freed itself from communism in 1989 through the only bloody revolution in Europe, but lost its way in 1990 through morally rigged elections that led to the maintenance of the occult networks of the Securitate and the communist nomenclature and the postponement of lustration for 20 years. 

Moreover, after entering NATO and the EU, it also missed the train, remaining in the gray area of ​​European politics and economics. 

Romania was and still remains the country at the Gates of the Orient ("Nous sommes ici aux portes de l'Orient, ou tout est pris à la légère!" - Raymond Poincaré) in which everything is relative and under something something else can be hidden. 

After liberation from communism, all national and European polls showed that over 80% of the Romanian population supports NATO and the European Union, but the political class has been playing with fire for over three decades and winking at Russia. 

Extremist politician George Simion was expelled from Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova for relations with Russian secret services, but in the country he became a parliamentarian and presidential candidate. 

From this "strategic ambiguity" Romania only got a Maga hat received in the hallway by President Nicusor Dan upon arriving in America:

President Nicusor Dan with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio 

Let's not be afraid of words. After 37 years of "transition" Romania has remained blocked between the past, present and future by a political class caught between the former Securitate and Russian sympathizers and which is primarily concerned with its own accounts.
What can come next? There are no miracles, only a future that can be built on the basis of the previous past and, at best, another period of "transition" to repair what the previous one damaged, so the process of disinhibition, desensitization, decivilization and dehumanization of society will continue sine die.

 Final notes 

*) - The national energy system is blocked by the businesses of the rulers' relatives, and the ministries  "do business" with European funds:  

https://hotnews.ro/ilie-bolojan-acuza-ca-baietii-destepti-ne-au-blocat-sistemul-energetic-dandu-le-hartii-ca-sa-ocupe-terenul-la-cine-se-refera-2170729?utm_source=hotnews.ro&utm_medium=article_single_recommended_box&utm_campaign=recommended_1

https://hotnews.ro/schema-prin-care-ministerul-energiei-a-castigat-121-de-milioane-de-euro-bani-care-nu-sunt-obiectul-controlului-altor-autoritati-2157504

**) INTERVIEW Iulian Fota: "This "new" man inherited by the Party and Ceausescu in the '80s – proto-chronists, the recovery of legionnaires' theories – all this poured into our heads after 1990! The entire education of these people had a clear anti-Western characteristic. They are the ones who got their hands on everything after 1990!"

 https://www.aktual24.ro/interviu-iulian-fota-omul-asta-nou-mosit-de-partid-si-de-ceausescu-in-anii-80-protocronisti-recuperarea-teoriilor-legionarilor-toate-astea-s-au-vars/