The Guardian: “Romania has got to terms with People’s House 30 years after Revolution”

People’s House is the name Ceausescu gave the building which now is one of the biggest in the world. In fact, it is the second largest building in the world after Pentagon and the top administrative and civilian one. Now it is called Palace of Parliament, as it houses the two Parliament chambers, the Senate and the House of Deputies.

Romanian Palace of Parliament’s value is USD 1,2 B, as set by the Romanian Parliament, which is a huge value especially when you think of the times back in 1990 when the Romanian people wanted to destroy the building. They saw it as a symbol of communism.

Now, 30 years later, The Guardian dedicated an article to this Bucharest landmark, article which concludes that Romanians came to terms with the building 30 years after the fall of communism. The journalists’ opinion is supported by the construction of the National Cathedral right next tot the Palace. In their view, this is something which translates as “we can’t tear it down, let’s build something bigger”.

In our opinion, the building of the cathedral in the close proximity of the Palace of Parliament has nothing to do with erasing somehow the memory of communism, nor with avenging the destruction of those 3 churches in order to build the Ceausescu’s People’s House. Both buildings have different meanings and their construction was decided in different moments of the Romanian history, not related anyhow with the other.

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