DISCURSUL ANTISECURIST ÎN SPAŢIUL PUBLIC ROMÂNESC - MOMENTUL DECEMBRIE 1989

The so-called 'anti-securist discourse' (with reference to an opposing discourse directed against 'Securitate', the name of the secret services agency during Ceausescu regime) has started in the Romanian public sphere in the night of 21st of December 1989 with the broadcast of certain information taken from ADN (Eastern Germany news agency) by the “Free Europe” radio station. They transmited with that occasion a misinformation stating that the popular revolt in Timisoara has been repressed by the Securitate, which resulted in between 3.000 and 4.000 deaths, including also pregnant women and children. Research conducted subsequently by the prosecution and the civil or military courts established 56 dead, but also that the security forces have used intimidation maneuver cartridges. Also, the army used weapons of war, from its supplies, but only when it was attacked. Misinformation about alleged massacres made in Timisoara by the Securitate were exposed in media and amplified by 'the putschists' and their collaborators from the group led by Ion Iliescu, who took power after fleeing Ceausescus. All this proves the existence of a plan for diversionist misinforming (maskirovka ? in the Soviet terminology) which was very well done, through which the 'putschists' justified the merits of the revolution, that helped them lead the revolutionary struggle against the so-called 'terrorists-securists' . The article tries to put forward several documented arguments in favour of this hypothesis and it also tries to draw attention on the consequences for the Romanian society. Thse discourses have created a very critical perspective against the Securitate among the Romanian citizens, which in various forms has been perpetuated to this day, generating confusion by mixing valid information with misinformation. Currently, Romania needs a more efficient and well designed security system, based on a democratic security culture that would allow different opinions, but that would not promote hate speech andnegative misinformation, elements which should remain in the political arena rather than in the field of intelligence.