Zvonurile de acum 40 de ani. August 1968: invadarea Cehoslovaciei şi îngrijorarea României
Rumors 40 years ago. August 1968: the invasion of Czechoslovakia and worries in Romania

Summary/Abstract: Regarded by some of the historians and political analysts as being the brave expression of the independence policy run by Romania, meanwhile others considered it to be a masquerade and the beginning of Nicolae Ceausescu.s cult of personality, the 21st of August 1968 remains a milestone in Romania.s recent history. The analisys of the National Historical Archives documents gave us the opportunity . for the first time in the last 40 years . to find out the types of rumors spread in Romania. The state of uncertainty expressed at the .top of the communist party. and population.s concern regarding a possible military intervention of the Soviet Union and other communist countries in Romania, after Czechoslovakia.s model, have created a favorable climate for rumor appearance. These rumors, as we know now, did have a .grain of truth..

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