ASPECTE PRIVIND STAREA DE SPIRIT A POPULAŢIEI DIN JUDEŢUL TIMIŞ ÎN ANUL 1981
ASPECTS CONCERNING OF THE POPULATION’S FRAME OF MIND IN TIMIȘ COUNTY, IN 1981

Summary/Abstract: At the beginning of the 80s the last century, Romania passed through a crisis with negative results on the population’s living standard. The notes I have examined in the present study, belonging to the chef of the Inspectorate of the Internal Affairs Ministry, sent to the prime-secretary of Timiș County Committee of the Romanian Communist Party in 1981, realistically expressed the population’s dissatisfaction for the law supplies with most needed food (bread, milk, cream, cheese, sugar, meat, eggs, white flour, corn flour, onion, potatoes, etc.); the lack of those ones in public shops generated immense files in front of the them, strains and incidents (Timișoara, Jimbolia), and mainly the people’s tiredness for needing to be late for their jobs to secure what they needed. Stoppage of electricity, warm water, and heat, etc. came to fulfill the people’s dissatisfactions. It is extremely important that people than drew a parallel between the situation in Romania and the one in Poland, and there were voices to assert that the things were at risk to degenerate like in Poland. The authorities felt concern about a letter that a group of Romanian physicians, including ones from Timișoara, sent by means of radio “Radio Free Europe”, to minister of Health, Professor Eugen Proca. The signatories expressed their dissatisfaction concerning the law salaries in the Romanian health system at the time, the substantial diminution of medicaments importing that prejudiced the medical aid, and required for its resuming. They also contested the rational eating program the Romanian Communist regime provided for, underlining that the Romanian authorities wanted to use medicine as a screen to cover the economic crisis.

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