"They make fun of you. They steal from you, they twist you around, they lie to you. They castrate your laws and laugh in your face. They make you ashamed to show your ID card at airports around the world. They treat you with contempt and, when they think it's necessary, with gas. Week after week, day after day, hour after hour. and illiterates. You endure the shame of having ministers who don't even know how to write and speak their own language. You revolt and shout your despair in the squares. And sometimes you try to escape the suffocation by laughing. At least for a few minutes or an hour. Every man is afraid, Romania's book-parastas after two years of PSD government, it is a symbolic fine for the party that has little left and is bringing its country to its knees. But not only that. It is at the same time an instrument that measures three decades of deceived hopes and lost illusions." – Radu Paraschivescu