Images captions index:
Cover 1: stranger in blue at rehearsals for the 1978 parade
8-9: people and even churches moved in Bucharest
10-11: they were moving their furniture in Bucharest
12-13: flying to communism, N.Ceausescu said
14: it was very cold in the house, Bucharest
15: any fuel was welcome, Bucharest
The everyday aberration.
20-21: queues for eggs, Calea Mosilor, Bucharest
22-23: the Romanians, world leaders of queues, Bucharest
24-25: queues all year in Bucharest
26-27: queues for everything in Bucharest, 1981-1987
28-29: wheat harvest record, bread on coupon
Leave with a Dacia car
32-33: on vacation, Bucharest, Venus
34-35: no social protection, Bucharest 1981-1988
36-37: manual "mechanization", Tulcea 1986
38-39: pre-war packaging,
40-41: Dacia, as an ideal car, Bucharest, Sibiu 1985
42-43: the queue for petrol, Neptun 1989
44: queuing for petrol, Bucharest 1987
46-47: on the roads of the Fatherland
48-49: Dacia R12 or Citroen Olt, Craiova 1984, Buzău
50-51: August 23, rehearsals for the parade, Bucharest 1978
52-53: our Song to Romania 1979, 1984
54-55: they were greedy, He was modest, the House of the People
56-57: many children for the Fatherland, the Hawks of the Fatherland, 1986
58-59: November 1983, the express train burns; tricolor steamer
60-61: with the red armchair and carrying 3 jars, Bucharest 1977
62-63: long live the Communist Party at Obor, Cold Water Well street, 1983
64-65: queuing with children, Bucharest 1987
Colder inside home than outside
pages 68-69 : the 1977 quake inspired them to destroy the historical city
70 : Mihai Vodă monastery (1594 -1985)
72-73 : landmarks of the city, missing now, 1985
74-75 : the now-disappeared Ecoului street, Bucharest 1981
76 : wild demolitions on Minotaurului street, 1984
80-81: very few buildings were lucky to escape, Bucharest
82-83 : The Institute of Legal Medicine, the first in the world (1892-1985)
84-85 : Saint-Friday square, stupidly destroyed, Bucharest 1986
86-87 : Brâncovenesc hospital (1837-1984)
88-89 : Bucharest, a mutilated capital, 1987
92-93 : 6 square kilometers demolished from the historic center, 1987
94-95 : pharaonic construction sites, submediocre quality, Bucharest
96-97 : underground passages flooded at the first rain, 1986-1989
98-99 : glorifying the Ruler /der Fhrer,
100-101 : the hilarious cult of personality,
Queues everywere
104-105 : mammoth rally, without the Great Leader, Bucharest 1986
106-107 : the exact observance of the Precious Indications, Bucharest 1986
108-109 : aberration in its various aspects
110-111 : antennas made to receive Bulgarian TV, Bucharest
112-113 : a lot of distressed people, Bucharest
116-117 : they were eating in town, Bucharest
118-119 : they respected work discipline, Bucharest 1975-1986
120-121 : nobody was smiling on the street, Bucharest
122-123 : pupils, after and before school
Hygiene without water
126-127: admiring local attractions
128-129: invalid and a bus with horns, 1979-1986
130: on the tram, to work, Bucharest 1982
132-133: a city hostile to people, 1987
134-135: transport in common /ism, Bucharest
Hilarious propaganda
138: the snow removal has started, Bucharest 1984
140-141: but the program is over, Bucharest 1985
142-143: buses, with and without the empty tanks, 1984-1985
144-145: an abundant Christmas, Bucharest 1979-85
146-147: the potatoes were sorted by engineers, Chitila 1986
So-called savings - in fact stupid waste
150-151: voluntary-compulsory patriotic work,1984
152-153: people humiliated behind the fence, 1979-1984
154-155: abusive demolitions, pharaonic works, Bucharest 1985-1986
156-157: unexpected achievements, sincere joys
158-159: the heroes return victorious, 1980-1985
162-163: everyone managed as they could
164-165: a country with no services, Bucharest, 1983
166-167: some freedom on vacation, 1979-1989
168-169: hard childhood, with great deprivations,1983-1989
170-171: pioneers swear to the Party, 1983
Humiliations, oppression
174-175: sport as popular entertainment
176-177: sport and propaganda, 1988
178-179: the Victory of Socialism towards the People's House, 1978-1988
180-181: a well guarded nation, Bucharest 1977-1987
182-183: rude comic propaganda
186-187: State employees, they are busy to do nothing, 1977-1986
188-189: they faked to pay us, we fake to work
190-191: hot asphalt poured directly over the snow, Bucharest 1984
192-193: propaganda versus reality, Bucharest 1977-1987
194-195: the House of the People connected to the Baltic Sea !?!
196-197: 4mh piles of snow on main Magheru boulevard, Bucharest 1985
198-199: as car traffic is prohibited, pedestrians walk in the middle of the street
Short introduction
202-203: heirlooms from the Golden Age, dying child with AIDS 1995
204-205: the House of the People = 7 Billions $, Bucharest 1990-1995
206-207: the eggs were saved by the Lord, Dacia All inclussive 1990
208-209: the dogs with no owners, a danger for Bucharest residents 1993
210-211: expired sewage networks, Bucharest 1992
212-213: police dogs washed in the Băneasa lake, 1992
Cover 4 : official visit of Michael Gorbachev, Bucharest 1987
