The "Scînteia" newspaper – the image of the "perfect" communist Romanian society during the ‘80s
The "Scînteia" newspaper – the image of the "perfect" communist Romanian society during the ‘80s

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to highlight some characteristics of the Romanian communist periodical publication, namely the “Scînteia” newspaper in the ‘80s. I focus on the last ten years of the newspaper’s existence, outlining the main themes which were tackled in its pages. I demonstrate that the newspaper “Scînteia” from the ‘80s, and not only, was not simply an informative publication but a “silencing” one, obedient to the Communist Party. Basically, its main purpose was to present the socialist society as wonderful as it could, meanwhile describing the capitalist one as mostly, if not entirely, awful.

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