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Maybe you were living in a big city like Bucharest, Timisoara ... I was there before 1989 and grew in the small town in a house. Not a village, but a small tow
by gls2ro 4y ago
Maybe you were living in a big city like Bucharest, Timisoara ...
I was there before 1989 and grew in the small town in a house. Not a village, but a small town.
We had electricity only a couple of hours per day.
I don't know of any specific rule against refrigerator but it was not useful to buy one as you cannot connect it to anything.
The main source of light during winter was the fire and some kind of liquid gas (I don't know exacly what was that) that we used with a gas lamp.
The same goes for kitchen: most of the cooking was done using the stove or using some gas tanks that were limited - I think one per family per month or I am not sure. But the gas tank was a precious possession there.
The same was true for bread or any other food that was produced by the state. There were rations of how much we can buy.
- tux2bsd 4y ago
- ido 4y agoWhy was it so limited? Didn't the former East Block had relatively abundant fuel (coal, oil, gas, uranium)?
- ggeorgovassilis 4y agoRomania wasn't in the east block. Ceausescu ran an isolationist regime which antagonised both the UDSSR and the West.
- baybal2 4y agoBecause why spent coal on heating stables for the livestock, if the livestock doesn't die without it? That's the mentality of a communist dictator.
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoYeah and all that went to export or industry where to could be used to make things for export.
- soco 4y agoOP only meant it was not "forbidden". No need to forbid consumption, when there's nothing to consume...
- cristiioan 4y agoMinunat, acum discutam despre romania in engleza.
- cristiioan 4y agoI know it is an EN only website and it was a joke :)
- jakzurr 4y agoPardon us, but yes we are!
- simiones 4y agoHN is an English-only site, so here we are. I'd love to see a Romanian HN, but given the general level of discourse I've seen in most Romanian communities online (and in most communities online period), I'm not holding my breath.
- gls2ro 4y agoWe are discussing about all other countries in English why would we do it differently now just because it is Romania?