Between history and the judgment of posterity - Alexandru Budișteanu in dialog with Flori Bălănescu

Publisher: National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism, Bucharest, 2010

"Research into the past, particularly the recent past, needs such live testimonies. Hence the interest of these memoirs for the researcher and for the many readers. Those who opened their eyes to the world after 1989 cannot imagine how an entire country obeyed directives issued by one man. And yet it was possible, as the country was under a decades-long totalitarian regime that sought to control everything. The memoirs, insofar as they are not pro domo pleas, help us to reconstruct a world that official documents cannot recount and people today no longer understand. The architect Alexandru Budișteanu has given us such a testimony-document, in which things are seen from the front, without detours, which ensures its durability."

Dinu C. Giurescu, September 2010