Romania after 20 years of capitalism

Two decades ago Romania saw Ceausescu’s era came to an abrupt
and bloody end in full crisis of the communist world, whilst now it
is experiencing capitalism’s most acute crisis. In the winter of
1989, an architect was in Abu Dhabi and had just decided to never
return to Romania, while he was looking for a solution to shadow a
grand stand. An engineer at the Intreprinderea de Avioane Bucuresti
(Bucharest Aeroplane Factory) felt that unlike in the other
countries in the communist bloc, there was nothing that could be
changed in Romania, perhaps influenced by his refusal to become a
member of the Communist Party a while before, a move then able to
hinder any career, if there were any careers to talk about in
communist Romania. A 2nd year student at the Faculty of Law within
the Bucharest University noticed the coldness of the faculty halls
both in the concrete and the figurative sense. One kid was bracing
himself for high school and found the jostling crowd queuing for
food a nuisance. Two decades later, the architect, whose name is
Dinu Patriciu, is chosen by Ziarul Financiar readers as Romania’s
biggest capitalist, the aviation engineer teaches Kaizen, the
management philosophy that drives Japanese companies forward,
former university student Doru Bostina runs a top-five business law
firm, high school student Stefan Liute has become an expert in
corporate identity, a manager and shareholder of Grapefruit
branding agency. These are just a few instances of what could be
called Romania’s about-face made after 1989, the profound change in
people’s career path. This is, in fact, perhaps the biggest
achievement of capitalist Romania, the freedom to change one’s
destiny. Read more about it in Business Magazin.