Ghosts in the Cellar

In Bucharest, communist ghosts are kept in the cellar... literally. Just at the entrance of the Museum of Romanian Peasants (very nice collection in a very nice building), if you go down a small stair at your right, you will find a couple of tiny rooms with a very particular display of Communist era portraits and symbols: a quite small collection, yet arranged with an ironic touch, from the very beginning.

[To the Electoral Section Nº2].




There's a bunch of Lenin statues scattered around, none of them especially remarcable, yet I love the arrangement of these two professor-like Lenin twin statues, giving each other their speech on Communist wonders and achievements.



Although some of you had asked me some weeks ago a photo of Ceauşescu remnants, it hadn't been possible so far, as European Union flags wave on the spots once full of Lenin statues and Communist stars, and Ceauşescu left behind many undisguisable huge buildings, but no face at all. But here they are, at last, a whole wall full of Ceauşescu and Stalin portraits on a "bloody Communism" red cloth. The legend keeps the ironic track: "In recognition of Collectivization merits. A group of nostalgic".

Aparently, this building used to host the Communist Party museum, at least our wise Wikipedia tells so in its article on the Museum. Sure enough, it suits the feeling I had while taking a look at this part of the museum: a piece of recent history cut apart from Romanian history storytelling and left in the cellar, like one would do with grandpa's dusty sofa or useless High School textbooks after Spring Clean.