Falsifications of the History of Romanian Communism in Cyberspace

An area full of falsehoods, at least in Romanian society, is the history of communism. Every day we are assaulted by "true histories" about Romanian communism which, in reality, are just fictions without any kind of scientific basis. The myths about communism in the mass media and particularly on social interaction networks are creating nostalgia, especially among young people who did not live through that period but who take from their families romanticized stories about the regime, because some inequalities of the present make those who lived through it and who are now in their twenties to sanction them by constructing a false past. Another cause of the proliferation of these myths is the lack of knowledge, the poor level of knowledge of history among young people. If mythologization is psychologically explicable for older people, it is gnoseologically explicable for young people. The consequences of these myths can be seen in sociological studies which indicate a high degree of nostalgia for communism. In what follows, I will present and dismantle three such myths: "Romania - the breadbasket of Europe", "the state gave us a home" and "it was hard but we had everything". Romania was never the "breadbasket of Europe", the Romanian state did not give houses to its workers, but kept them in rented houses, as they had to fit in with state policy, and the years of communism were years of penury and of getting used to little.