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Cenaclul Flacăra
Cenaclul Flacăra (Romanian for "The Flame Literary Circle") was a cultural and artistic movement in the Socialist Republic of Romania led by poet Adrian Păunescu. Between 1973 and 1985, it organized shows and concerts which, although rebellious in comparison to the official entertainment, promoted Nicolae Ceaușescu's cult of personality and the ideology of National Communism. Cenaclul Flacăra organized 1,615 shows of music, poetry and dialog throughout the country, having more than 6 million spectators. The spectacles had a strong influence over the Romanians, especially the Romanian youth and spread its own ideology, a mix of left-wing Western-influenced ideas and Romanian nationalism. Creation Adrian Păunescu, despite having a famously rebellious attitude towards the political regime in the 1960s, eventually became closer ideologically to then communist head of state Nicolae Ceaușescu.Burakowski, p. 204 This transformation allowed him to become the editor-in-chief for the c ...
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Socialist Republic Of Romania
The Socialist Republic of Romania ( ro, Republica Socialistă România, RSR) was a Marxist–Leninist one-party socialist state that existed officially in Romania from 1947 to 1989. From 1947 to 1965, the state was known as the Romanian People's Republic (, RPR). The country was an Eastern Bloc state and a member of the Warsaw Pact with a dominant role for the Romanian Communist Party enshrined in its constitutions. Geographically, RSR was bordered by the Black Sea to the east, the Soviet Union (via the Ukrainian and Moldavian SSRs) to the north and east, Hungary and Yugoslavia (via SR Serbia) to the west, and Bulgaria to the south. As World War II ended, Romania, a former Axis member which had overthrown the Axis, was occupied by the Soviet Union, the sole representative of the Allies. On 6 March 1945, after mass demonstrations by communist sympathizers and political pressure from the Soviet representative of the Allied Control Commission, a new pro-Soviet government that ...
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Transsylvania Phoenix
Transsylvania Phoenix (also known as Phoenix in Romania) is a Romanian rock band formed in 1962 in Timișoara by guitarists Nicu Covaci and Kamocsa Béla. Guitarist Claudiu Rotaru, vocalist Florin "Moni" Bordeianu and drummer Ioan "Pilu" Ștefanovici completed the early lineup. The group became famous in Romania in the 1970s when it started fusing their 1960s rock and roll sound with traditional folk music, thus pioneering the " ethno rock" subgenre. After gaining popularity in Romania during the so-called British invasion in the mid-60s, the group changed its style to integrate Romanian folklore elements after vocalist Florin "Moni" Bordeianu emigrated to the United States. A new ''LP'' was released in 1972 and the band represented Romania in various Eastern Bloc music festivals throughout the 1970s. The group disbanded in 1977, when they illegally fled to West Germany. Latter attempts to regroup the members, both in West Germany and in Romania after 1990, failed to achieve ...
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Romanian Revolution
The Romanian Revolution ( ro, Revoluția Română), also known as the Christmas Revolution ( ro, Revoluția de Crăciun), was a period of violent civil unrest in Romania during December 1989 as a part of the Revolutions of 1989 that occurred in several countries around the world. The Romanian Revolution started in the city of Timișoara and soon spread throughout the country, ultimately culminating in the drumhead trial and execution of longtime Romanian Communist Party (PCR) General Secretary Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena, and the end of 42 years of Communist rule in Romania. It was also the last removal of a Marxist–Leninist government in a Warsaw Pact country during the events of 1989, and the only one that violently overthrew a country's leadership and executed its leader; according to estimates, over one thousand people died and thousands more were injured. Following World War II, Romania was placed under the Soviet sphere of influence in 1947 with Communist rul ...
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Union Of Communist Youth
The Union of Communist Youth (Romanian language, Romanian: '; UTC) was the Romanian Communist Party's youth organisation. Like many Young Communist League, Young Communist organisations, it was modelled after the Soviet Union, Soviet Komsomol. It aimed to cultivate young Professional revolutionaries, cadres into the party, as well as to help create the "new man" envisioned by communist ideologues. History Founded in 1922, the UTC went underground along with the rest of the party when it was banned in 1924. A marginal group under strict control of the Comintern's Young Communist International, it began to emerge as a mass movement in 1944, after the Red Army had entered Romania and the party became legal once again. Nicolae Ceaușescu was the First Secretary of the UTC from August 23, 1944, to June 1945. Beginning in 1948, the Romanian Workers' Party (PMR, as it was then called) began to contemplate merging and purging the country's youth organisations – political, profess ...
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Nicu Ceaușescu
Nicu Ceaușescu (; 1 September 1951 – 26 September 1996) was a Romanian physicist and communist politician who was the youngest child of Romanian leaders Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu. He was a close associate of his father's political regime and considered the President's heir presumptive. Life during communism According to Ion Mihai Pacepa, Ceaușescu wanted Nicu to become his Foreign Minister and for that, he instructed two high-ranked Party members, Ștefan Andrei and Cornel Pacoste (whom he considered brilliant communist intellectuals) to take care of Nicu's education; Pacepa further claimed that, unlike his older siblings, he disliked school and was allegedly derided by them for never being seen reading a book.Ion Mihai Pacepa (1990) ''Red Horizons: The True Story of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescus' Crimes, Lifestyle, and Corruption'', Regnery Publishing, Inc. pp. 62–63. . He graduated from Liceul no. 24 (now named Jean Monnet High School) and then studied physics at ...
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Norman Manea
Norman Manea (; born July 19, 1936), is a Romanian Jewish writer and author of short fiction, novels, and essays about the Holocaust, daily life in a communist state, and exile. He lives in the United States, where he is a Professor and writer in residence at Bard College. He left Romania in 1986 with a DAAD-Berlin Grant and in 1988 went to the US with a Fulbright Scholarship at the Catholic University in Washington DC. He won the 2002 International Nonino Prize in Italy. Manea's most acclaimed book, '' The Hooligan's Return'' (2003), is an original fictionalized memoir, encompassing a period of almost 80 years, from the pre-war period, through the Second World War, the communist and post-communist years to the present. Manea has been known and praised as an internationally important writer since the early 1990s, and his works have been translated into more than 20 languages. He has received more than 20 awards and honors. Early years Born to Jewish parents in the neighbo ...
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Stampede
A stampede () is a situation in which a group of large animals suddenly start running in the same direction, especially because they are excited or frightened. Non-human species associated with stampede behavior include zebras, cattle, elephants, reindeer, sheep, pigs, goats, blue wildebeests, walruses, wild horses, and rhinoceroses. Some media sources refer to situations in which people were injured or have died due to compression in very dense crowds as a "stampede", but this is a misnomer; the more appropriate term would be crush, or crowd collapse.


Cattle stampedes

Anything unusual may start a stampede among cattle. Especially at night, things such as lighting a match, someone jumping o ...
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Ilie Oană Stadium (1937)
Stadionul Ilie Oană (1937) was a multi-purpose stadium in Ploieşti, Romania. It was used mostly for football matches and was the home ground of FC Petrolul Ploieşti. The stadium used to hold up to 14,000 people before it was demolished. The stadium was named after Ilie Oană, a Romanian international player and coach. The stadium was entirely demolished to build an all-seater new one which was opened in September 2011. National games On 6 June 1998, Romania beat Moldova Moldova ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Republica Moldova), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The unrecognised state of Transnistr ... with 5-1(2-0) before leaving for 1998 FIFA World Cup. The assistance was around 8,000 people. Gallery File:Stadion Ilie Oană2.jpg, File:Peluza nord.jpg, File:Peluza nord si tribuna 2.jpg, References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ilie Oana, Stadionul Footba ...
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Ploiești
Ploiești ( , , ), formerly spelled Ploești, is a city and county seat in Prahova County, Romania. Part of the historical region of Muntenia, it is located north of Bucharest. The area of Ploiești is around , and it borders the Blejoi commune in the north, Bărcănești and Brazi communes in the south, Târgșoru Vechi commune in the west, and Bucov and Berceni communes in the east. According to the 2011 Romanian census, there were 201,226 people living within the city limits, making it the ninth most populous in the country. The city grew beginning with the 17th century on an estate bought by Michael the Brave from the local landlords, gradually taking the place of the nearby Wallachian fairs of Târgșor, Gherghița and Bucov. Its evolution was accelerated by heavy industrialisation, with the world's first systematic petroleum refinery being opened in 1856–1857. Following massive exploitation of the oil deposits in the area, Ploiești earned the nickname of "the Ca ...
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Tatiana Stepa
Tatiana Stepa (April 21, 1963 – August 7, 2009) was a Romanian folk singer. Born in Lupeni, she attended the High School for Architecture in Bucharest and made her debut in 1982 with Cenaclul Flacăra at the Făgăraș stadium. Stepa died at the Military Hospital in Bucharest after a long illness due to cervical cancer, and was buried in the city's Bellu Cemetery Șerban Vodă Cemetery (commonly known as Bellu Cemetery) is the largest and most famous cemetery in Bucharest, Romania. It is located on a plot of land donated to the local administration by Baron Barbu Bellu. It has been in use since 1858. Th .... External links * * References 1963 births 2009 deaths People from Lupeni Romanian folk singers 20th-century Romanian women singers 20th-century Romanian singers Deaths from cancer in Romania Deaths from cervical cancer Burials at Bellu Cemetery {{romania-bio-stub ...
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Emeric Imre
Emeric Imre (born 30 January 1965) is a Romanian guitarist, musician, vocalist and composer. Biography Emeric Imre was born in 1965 in Cluj in the housing district Dâmbul Rotund. His mother was half Romanian Romani half Polish and his father was a Hungarian Jew.Marius Matache, ''Interview with Emeric Imre'' http://www.foreverfolk.com/2009/04/09/emeric-imre.html Family During his childhood he was urged by his father to turn into a musician and he began to study violin. As a young boy he was a football lover and practiced football for nine years. Emeric went often to training with the violin under his arm. Then disaster came... after two years of music, he ended with giving up his musical studies. Leaving the sports career is one of his sorrows. Musical career In 1984 he became part of the folk stage of Cenaclul Flacăra as folk singer until 2000 when Cenaclul Flacăra was disbanded. After this Emeric Imre fought to promote folk music. Besides participating in events s ...
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Vasile Mardare
The male name Vasile is of Greek origin and means "King". Vasile is a male Romanian given name or a surname. It is equivalent to the English name Basil. As a given name As a surname * Cristian Vasile (1908–1985), Romanian tango-romance singer * Nicolae Vasile (born 1995), Romanian professional footballer * Niculina Vasile (born 1958), former Romanian high jumper *Radu Vasile (1942–2013), Romanian politician and Prime Minister * Ștefan Vasile (born 1982), Romanian Olympic canoer Places * Pârâul lui Vasile, a river in Romania *Valea lui Vasile, a river in Romania * Vasile Aron (Sibiu district) See also * Vasiliu (surname) * Vasilescu (surname) * Vasilievca (other) * Vasile Alecsandri (other) Vasile Alecsandri may refer to two villages in Romania, named after the poet and politician Vasile Alecsandri: * Vasile Alecsandri, a village in Braniştea Commune, Galați County * Vasile Alecsandri, a village in Stejaru Commune, Tulcea County ... * ...
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