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what does the title means? I mean what is the translation into english?

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http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/film_reviews/article2265319.ece

"Was there or wasn't there?"

I saw this film for the third time last night (I first saw it at the London Film Festival in 2006, and again at a Rumanian film festival in London earlier this year.) It was even better than I remembered.

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Was it a revolution? Or wasn't it? Not just in the tiny city of Vaslui,Moldova province, Romania, but in Romania as a whole.
All the countries of the soviet block had velvet revolutions in 1989. The soviets tacitly allowed this after the fall of East Germany.
By december 1989 only Romania and the USSR countries remained under full communism soviet-style. Under an iron fist dictator who was getting older and was bringing his country into starvation.
Ceausescu was out of control forcing us to repay all our foreign debt in under 10 years. He drove the country to poverty. Something had to be done.
However under him were 2nd and 3rd generation communists trying to keep control. So they overthrew Ceausescu in a mock revolution nowadays called "the events of december 1989".
However the courage of some people who revolted genuinely against the tyrant, thus giving the new communists under Iliescu their chance, can not be denied. Thousands died in Timisoara, Bucuresti and other major cities of Romania.
This film takes a look at all those people involved in those events.
The idealists who risked their lives to protest against the opressors. In the end they have no chance. Not even their courage those days is recognized. They remain defeated by the system.
The opressors who turned against their master Ceausescu to seize power (full control at least until 1996) and are now forming maybe 95% of the upper ruling class of Romania. They are now the biggest revolutionaries. They did NOT work in the Secret Security Service. They were NOT top communist party officials.
And the main part of "revolutionaries", who appeared just after Ceausescu fled. They admit it. They appeared not to protest against Ceausescu but to rejoice someone overthrew him and to now applaud their new masters. And they're proud of it. After all it kinda was better before '89....
So what was it?

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Interesting insightful post, rhadoo32. Thanks

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