I show above, in its full "Disneyland" splendor, the second biggest building in the world, one that appears in the background on the picture on the right. It is still called by the inhabitants of Bucharest "The House of the Fool", or "Dracula's House", even if its official name is today "The Palace of the Parliament." The whole complex was build in the period 1980 - 1990, in a starving country, where food and heating of houses became both luxuries. During that whole period no Western government or a big international organization has vigorously protested against this large scale cultural crime (erasing of the past) committed in Bucharest by the communist government, under the ruling of the communist party and guided by its leader Nicolae Ceausescu.
The large street
shown on the above picture was called only 17 years ago "The Boulevard of
the Victory of Socialism". The big building in the background had the
official name: "The House of People".
But only twenty years ago there were
no traces of these gigantic buildings in Bucharest, the capital of Romania.
The area covered by the
buildings shown above was a part of the so called Old Bucharest, consisting
of small individual houses, several churches, an old market, monasteries and
several historical buildings. Some of them are shown on the stamps below.
