Remember December 1989 - Romanian Revolution

România a fost singura țară din blocul estic care a trecut printr-o revoluție violentă și în care conducătorii comuniști au fost executați.

Statisticile victimelor revoluției din decembrie 1989 potrivit Ministerului Sănătății (aproximativ):

1104 morți și 3321 răniți (221 civili și 663 militari).

The Romanian Revolution of 1989 was a week-long series of increasingly violent riots and fighting in late December 1989 that overthrew the government of the totalitarian president Nicolae Ceauşescu. After a trial, Ceauşescu and his wife Elena were executed. Romania was the only Eastern Bloc country to overthrow its government forcefully or to execute its leaders.

~1104 dead and 3321 wounded

more here: Romanian Revolution of 1989

What If God Was One of Us

If God had a name, what would it be

And would you call it to his face

If you were faced with him in all his glory

What would you ask if you had just one question

And yeah , God is great yeah , God is good

If God had a face what would it look like

And would you want to see

If seeing meant that you would have to believe

In things like heaven and in Jesus and the Saints and all the Prophets

What if god was one of us

Just a slob like one of us

Just a stranger on the bus

Trying to make his way home

Just trying to make his way home

Like a Holy rolling stone

Back up to heaven all alone

Just trying to make his way home

Nobody calling on the phone

Except for the Pope maybe in Rome...

Joan Osborne / What If God Was One of Us lyrics

Paris, Mon Amour (II)

If you go away on this winter day

Then you might as well take the sun away

All the birds that flew in the summer sky

When our love was new and our hearts were high

When the day was young, and the night was long

And the moon stood still for the nightbird's song

If you go away....

But if you stay, I'll make you a day

Like no day has been or will be again

We'll sail the sun, we'll ride on the rain

We'll talk to the trees and worship the wind

Then if you go, I'll understand

Leave me just enough love to fill up my hand

If you go away...

If you go away, as I know you will

You must tell the world to stop turning 'til

You return again, if you ever do

For what good is love without loving you?

Can I tell you now, as you turn to go

I'll be dying slowly 'til the next hello?

If you go away...

But if you stay, I'll make you a night

Like no night has been or will be again

I'll sail on your smile, I'll ride on your touch

I'll talk to your eyes that I love so much

But if you go, go! I won't cry

Though the good is gone from the word goodbye

If you go away....

If you go away, as I know you must

There'll be nothing left in the world to trust

Just an empty room, full of empty space

Like the empty look I see on your face

I'd have been the shadow of your shadow

If I thought it might have kept me by your side

IF YOU GO AWAY

(Ne Me Quitte Pas)

(Jacques Brel / Rod McKuen)


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