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Milk was rationed too. Yes, but only if you could find it, if there was any left for you as well?(L. A., 162)

RED

Bright red was the color of the party. It was part of the banner, slogans and the linen that covered the table of the presidium at meetings. It was also part of the names of big factories like "Grivita Rosie" ("Red Grivita"), "Otelul rosu" ("Red Steel"), "Flamura rosie" ("Red Flag"). Everything was red. (51)

REFERENCE

A reference from your workplace could help you to get a house, a car or bicycle and even a color TV set. You had to prove that you had extraordinary moral qualities. (111)

REFERENDUM

The whole story was totally absurd. Of course, all decisions were taken by Ceausescu to his liking. Nobody asked us what we did with our money, what we paid and what happened. Suddenly, he decided the reduction of the fund allocated to the army and armament. It should fall 5% if all the citizens agreed. Then, all of a sudden, a referendum was organized. Actually, that was the only one after the 1944 Constitution we took part in. That was something! That was possible too! (I.H., 144)

The referendum was the most terrible memory of mass mobilization. It happened between 1985-6. In November 1985, in late autumn. I was in at 7.30 a.m.. I had signed all the documents. 7.30. Can you imagine that? At 6.30 a.m. you had to sign "Yes". "No" was covered with a sheet of paper. I was lucky because Tomson took me by car for otherwise I would have fainted in the crowd that headed for the precincts. (S. R-B., D. R.-B., 138)

REGISTER

We ha a so-called co-operative of signing the register. Each morning one of us would sign for all the others. One day, scatterbrain as I was, I forgot to sign and I cannot tell you what followed. Eventually they forgave me. I thought then to simplify my signature. To make it easy to imitate. To this day, I sign the same way all the official papers: a few straight features that form my father?s initial. (7)

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