Un episod umanitar european: „Opération Villages Roumains” pe pământ românesc, ianuarie-martie 1990
A European Humanitarian Episode: "Opération Villages Roumains", for the First Time in Romania (January – March 1990)

Summary/Abstract: Ceauşescu's Rural Systematisation project, which meant the demolition of the Romanian villages and forced removal of the rural population, provoked a massive protest movement in the Western world, which started in Belgium in February 1989. The protest movement was called "Operation Romanian Villages" and intended the saving all the Romanian villages from demolition. Symbolically, each Romanian village was "adopted" by a western one. The Romanian revolution of December 1989 made possible the contacts between the Western communes participating in the operation and the Romanian villages they adopted. In the first months after the fall of the regime, there was a fantastic enthusiasm of the European communes, which travelled to Romania with trucks full of humanitarian aid. The contacts between the two parties, Romanians and foreigners, were impressive, provoking strong emotions. Many connections and friendship relationships that were created during that time survived in time, even today.

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