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Many Romanian teachers agree with a dictatorial regime, declare themselves for the death penalty, and feel that homosexuality cannot be accepted, according to a study conducted by four researchers from the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. They interviewed 1,427 teachers for this study, trying to find out their opinions on several important topics. The research revealed that 45% of the Romanian teachers agree with a dictatorial regime and 40% support the idea of death penalty, local Rfi.ro reported.  Meanwhile, 40% think that homosexuality cannot be accepted. Moreover, about one in three teachers don’t want to have Roma people as neighbors, and a similar percentage doesn’t want to have to deal with members of the LGBT community or with couples where the partners are not married.  At the same time, over 50% of respondents don’t want anything to do with drug users or people who are addicted to alcohol. Another worrying result is the one accordin...

The director of the museum in Targoviste gestures to the spot  where Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were executed  by a former military unit on December 25, 1989. Romanians nostalgic for the communist era gathered Thursday at the grave of former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, who were tried and executed on Christmas Day twenty-five years ago. Some Romanians have made the pilgrimage to the Ghencea cemetery into an annual tradition . This year, about 15 people gathered at the burial place. Ceausescu's 24-year-rule was characterized in the later years by food and power shortages and a lack of basic freedoms. But the few Romanians who turned up at his grave expressed nostalgia for an era where there was more security. Caltea Oprea, a retired engineer, clutched two beeswax candles and said his red knitted scarf was a symbol of communism. "After communism ended we were run by thieves and bandits," he told The Associated Press. "Ceause...

The director of the museum in Targoviste gestures to the spot where Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were executed by a former military unit on December 25, 1989. AFP - The grim barracks where Romania's brutal communist despot Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were executed are to be opened to the public in the latest bid to boost "dictator tourism". The former military unit at Targoviste, 100 kilometres (60 miles) northwest of Bucharest, is to be turned into a museum and is due to welcome its first visitors in early September. "Many Romanians and foreigners said they wanted to see the wall against which Ceausescu and his wife Elena were shot on December 25, 1989," Ovidiu Carstina, director of the museum, told AFP. The death of the Ceausescus became one of the defining images of the revolutions which convulsed eastern and central Europe in 1989. On December 22, as angry crowds gathered in front of the Communist Party headquarters,...