REVOLUTION HEROES CEMETERY
After more than 30 years, the truth about the Romanian Revolution in 1989 is still a secret. Here are some of the victims of the bloodbath at Revolution Heroes Cemetery.
What you have just read is on a funeral monument in the Revolution Heroes Cemetery Bucharest. We are talking about the place were rest in peace people killed in 1989. That was during the Romanian anti-communist Revolution. In the winter of 1989, a change of political regime ended in a bloodbath.
When people got out in the street to change the political system, the system had a horrible reaction. The first to be killed by the security forces was a 19 years old boy near UNIVERSITY SQUARE. Among the dead, there were, from the 21st of December 1989 to the 26th of December even 13 years old children like the one buried at Revolution Heroes Cemetery.
BUCHAREST REVOLUTION 1989 GRAVEYARD
WHERE IS THE REVOLUTION HEROES CEMETERY
The Revolution Heroes Cemetery in Bucharest is just near Serban Voda or Bellu Cemetery. This one is where the greatest Romanian writers, actors and other public persons have been buried since the late 19th century. There is always a guard in the area. Once you enter, no matter the month you decide to visit the place, you feel like it is November, it feels like cold and raining. Many of those who died in December 1989 were young. Their names and stories are written on a memorial just in front of the entrance. The Revolution Heroes Cemetery is on Serban Voda Street, No. 247.
HOW MANY DIED IN THE ROMANIAN REVOLUTION IN 1989
Nobody knows for sure how many people died during the revolution against communism in 1989. Also Justice punished onley few of the killers. Yet, a trial is on its way. According to the authorities, security forces shot dead 1,142 people. And hurt more than 3,000. Those dead in Bucharest are buried in Bucharest Revolution Heroes Cemetery. As we said before, the first to be shot in the capital was a 19 years old boy, who was sitting and praying for the victims of the repression in Timisoara. It was there where the revolution started on December, 16. Some security forces shot him dead. The cemetery in Bucharest was built in 1990 and here were buried those who died in those 3 days when the Romanian capital faced a kind of civil war. There names are here.
All the graves are of white marble in the same style. You can read their stories here, though not to many people come to visit this cemetery. The air here is full of accusations to a criminal and illegitimate political regime. That was the communism in Romania. The church inside the Revolution Heroes Cemetery in Bucharest appeared immediately after 1989. The Association of the widows, parents and children of those who died during the anti-communist revolution built it.
CHURCH REVOLUTION HEROES
MONUMENTS FOR HEROES WHO FOUGHT AGAINST COMMUNISM
The fight against communism started in Romania in 1945. It was then when the new political regime Russians had installed after World War Two got more power. There had been armed guerrillas in the mountains who fought against the security forces to late 60’s. Yet, the civilians’ uprising in 1989 was something different( learn more on Wikipedia). People could no longer resist the lack of food. The lack of civil rights, of a good health system, of everything would offer a decent life. In the same time communism fell in Europe in 1989. And the Romanians knew that from different radio channels, despite the state control over media. Every year in December, ordinary people comemorate the martyrs who died in December 1989. See first the REVOLUTION SQUARE IN BUCHAREST.
REVOLUTION HEROES MONUMENT OTOPENI
These are the funeral stones to remember the soldiers who died during the anti-communist revolution in 1989 at Otopeni International Airport
HEROES AGAINST COMMUNISM BUCHAREST
This is the monument for HEROES who fought and died AGAINST COMMUNISM between 1945 and 1989 in BUCHAREST at House of free press.
