Ideological paradoxes in post-war Romanian culture
Ideological paradoxes in post-war Romanian culture

Summary/Abstract: Is to be observed that while, in conditions of freedom, postwar France experienced transfiguration by washing its sins related to the Vichy government, restoring on the deserved place a natural and progressive attitude of left, the oppressive regime established in Romania, by recoil, pushed the only Romanian intellectual enclave in liberty to refold to the right, with unnatural and toxic capillary connections with extremisms. The state of exile strengthen those feelings. It goes without saying that all other institutions of exile coalesced around them intellectuals who shared the same historical trauma and gravitated, with very few exceptions, around the same right-wing political beliefs. The entire West of that times seemed blind and deaf to the problems of captive countries behind the Iron Curtain. Separately to the “forget ethics” - the war left an unbearable memory - as beneficiaries of prosperity due to the Marshall Plan of economic rehabilitation, funded by U.S., Western Europe had no mood, no curiosity to know what is really happening in the new communist countries.

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