The European Union and cheap labor: the case of Romania

After the fall of Ceaușescu in 1989 due to Gorbacev's programs, CIA propaganda and real problems (in the years before Romania accumulated a huge debt to the Western country and in the '80s Ceausescu tried to pay them by limiting the heath or electricity that home received or by increasing work hours now being 6 days a weak and up to 10 hours a day. The debt was paid near his execution) Romania was "free". The problem arise in considering this freedom that the West promised so much as being rather minimal and not really helping the countryFrom 1989 to 2020 4 million people left the country to find an arguably better life than the ruins of the old one. Most of the factories were closed or sold to bigger companies in the west, the lands or forests previously colectivized were now given to descendants of those who own them previously... but they either sold the land to companies from America, Germany. Israel and so on or they chopped of the trees.Life in the West proved rather rapidly to not be as great as the propaganda said. Romanians were used as cheap labor force in the EU or as resources to traffic and this thing continues to this day. While most of the population is in lockdown that doesn't stop corporations from selling our resources. For instance the forest's wood is sold to Austria and some natural treasures like the Retezeat Godeanu Park are in danger of being the next target. Prince Charles comes to Transylvania every years or so and buy some land while the news are all like it's the second coming of Christ.Another problem that the EU contributed too is that of cheap labor and mistreatmet of romanian immigrants. Two recent examples are of UK and Germany who asked Romania to send some of it's people (in the case of Germany 38 planes) to work on privately owned land during a pandemic in not so ideal conditions and for cheap so that agriculture there can survive.The situation in the country is still bad. After the fall of Ceausescu a counter movement of ex-legionary (the christian fascist movement in the 30') and legionary like started publishing books and subverting the narrative. While most of the people will say that the legionaries were bad, there are some that idolize rather publicly controversial figures like Radu Gyr, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu or Ion Antonescu. Subsequently fascist movements started to rise slowly, right now the most important one is Noua Dreapta (the new right). Thankfully it didn't gain much power. Even so racism become the norm in some parts of the country. In the late 2019 there was the case of 2 black people from Sri Lanka who came to Durău to work in a bakery. The people there said that, and I quote, ”we look at the hands of those who make our bread...how can we eat bread from black hands?”Discrimination of romma or jewish people can happen too. For instance we don't have a museum for the Holocaust (while we have a lot for the "victims of communism" in prisons, most of them legionaries) and the Elie Wiesel foundation is sometimes blamed for various things. The other day I saw a post on facebook criticizing the foundation for "it's lack of free speech" in regards to a poem written by Radu Gyr.The "freedom" that we got after the December revolution proved, to put it simply, a farce. via /r/communism https://ift.tt/2XMJJUv