INSCOP Research conducted, in partnership with the Institute for the Investigation of the Crimes of Communism and the Memory of the Communist Exile (IICCMER), the largest sociological research dedicated to nostalgia after communism.
Data from the event-research entitled "Population's perception of COMMUNISM. Remarks of nostalgia" were collected in July 2025 on a sample of 1500 respondents, with an error of +/-2.5%.
The survey will be presented in full, with detailed analysis by socio-demographic groups, tomorrow, July 22, 2024 starting at 10 am during an event organized by IICCMER. Also tomorrow, we will publicize the inegral results on the INSCOP and IICCMER websites.
The research results indicate a huge gap between reality and the perception of the Romanian population regarding the communist regime, thus painting a picture of a society almost completely weakened in the face of the informational/hybrid/cognitive war that is already wreaking havoc in our home.
The data we will present tomorrow are, at times, mind-boggling. They reveal the underpinnings of a collective nostalgia that can seriously affect the stability of the democratic regime (if it has not already done so) by feeding distorted value benchmarks with myths constructed by truncated information or gross lies. Lies exacerbated for over a decade by the intermix of a complex of hybrid aggressions propagated by internal factors or hostile external entities with the aim of causing major social fractures, total polarization, endemic distrust and chronic insecurity in Romanian society.
Nostalgia after communism is also a natural phenomenon. Whether it is driven by regret for lost youth, or by the harsh state of uncertainty felt by vulnerable social groups whose lives were turned upside down by the sudden destruction of a regime that controlled everything from intrauterine life to the cemetery.
🎯 Unimaginable, however, is the intensity of this sense of nostalgia today, 35 years after the fall of communism! With all the failures of the present, with all the social, economic dissatisfaction of a part of the population that amplifies the regret after communism, the CATASTROPHIC percentages of the population that mythologize life under communism are not just the result of a natural phenomenon!
🎯 They are a direct consequence of the information war we are in, of at least 10 years of serious active measures directly coordinated by a hostile power, waves of grotesque disinformation, lies and manipulations propagated on all channels of information multiplication, but especially on social networks.
A campaign of destabilization and social vulnerabilization that has not been combated by the state or by society, neither in the public nor in the non-public sphere.
A campaign against which we have neither built capacities nor allocated resources to build the appropriate antibodies that can only be found in attachment to freedom, good governance, sincere patriotism, which is brother to integrity, honesty and common sense, not imported aggression and violence.
And as a result of this failure, today two thirds of Romanians believe that Nicolae Ceausescu (for about 10 years now, a veritable star on Facebook and Tik-tok in professionally produced videos and images strategically and resourcefully spread) was a good leader for Romania, and only 24% believe he was a bad leader for Romania.
The golden age of the communist regime seems to manifest itself, in a surrealist dimension of perception, precisely nowadays when communism seems to be more popular than in the best times of its existence.
We will go into more detail later, but I cannot help thinking of one simple fact.
If the greatest threat to Romanian democracy, to our liberty and sovereignty, the real one, not the one imagined by the Potemkin scriptwriters from the East for the subversive use of the neo-Coloana V, was produced against the background of the informational / hybrid / cognitive war, are we really not capable of rapidly building defense capabilities?
If we can allocate €7 billion for the F35 program, veritable flying fortresses that we need like air to defend our borders, can we not find a billion, just one billion, so as not to lose the information war that is being waged right now in our own backyard, seriously threatening our national security and, in the end, even our very real sovereignty.
Sociological research indicates an acute need for public policies to address the current structural grievances (poverty, inequality, corruption) and the current informational and educational shortcomings (knowledge of real history, minimum foundations of general knowledge, etc.).
Data from the event-research entitled "Population's perception of COMMUNISM. Remarks of nostalgia" were collected in July 2025 on a sample of 1500 respondents, with an error of +/-2.5%.
The survey will be presented in full, with detailed analysis by socio-demographic groups, tomorrow, July 22, 2024 starting at 10 am during an event organized by IICCMER. Also tomorrow, we will publicize the inegral results on the INSCOP and IICCMER websites.
The research results indicate a huge gap between reality and the perception of the Romanian population regarding the communist regime, thus painting a picture of a society almost completely weakened in the face of the informational/hybrid/cognitive war that is already wreaking havoc in our home.
The data we will present tomorrow are, at times, mind-boggling. They reveal the underpinnings of a collective nostalgia that can seriously affect the stability of the democratic regime (if it has not already done so) by feeding distorted value benchmarks with myths constructed by truncated information or gross lies. Lies exacerbated for over a decade by the intermix of a complex of hybrid aggressions propagated by internal factors or hostile external entities with the aim of causing major social fractures, total polarization, endemic distrust and chronic insecurity in Romanian society.
Nostalgia after communism is also a natural phenomenon. Whether it is driven by regret for lost youth, or by the harsh state of uncertainty felt by vulnerable social groups whose lives were turned upside down by the sudden destruction of a regime that controlled everything from intrauterine life to the cemetery.
🎯 Unimaginable, however, is the intensity of this sense of nostalgia today, 35 years after the fall of communism! With all the failures of the present, with all the social, economic dissatisfaction of a part of the population that amplifies the regret after communism, the CATASTROPHIC percentages of the population that mythologize life under communism are not just the result of a natural phenomenon!
🎯 They are a direct consequence of the information war we are in, of at least 10 years of serious active measures directly coordinated by a hostile power, waves of grotesque disinformation, lies and manipulations propagated on all channels of information multiplication, but especially on social networks.
A campaign of destabilization and social vulnerabilization that has not been combated by the state or by society, neither in the public nor in the non-public sphere.
A campaign against which we have neither built capacities nor allocated resources to build the appropriate antibodies that can only be found in attachment to freedom, good governance, sincere patriotism, which is brother to integrity, honesty and common sense, not imported aggression and violence.
And as a result of this failure, today two thirds of Romanians believe that Nicolae Ceausescu (for about 10 years now, a veritable star on Facebook and Tik-tok in professionally produced videos and images strategically and resourcefully spread) was a good leader for Romania, and only 24% believe he was a bad leader for Romania.
The golden age of the communist regime seems to manifest itself, in a surrealist dimension of perception, precisely nowadays when communism seems to be more popular than in the best times of its existence.
We will go into more detail later, but I cannot help thinking of one simple fact.
If the greatest threat to Romanian democracy, to our liberty and sovereignty, the real one, not the one imagined by the Potemkin scriptwriters from the East for the subversive use of the neo-Coloana V, was produced against the background of the informational / hybrid / cognitive war, are we really not capable of rapidly building defense capabilities?
If we can allocate €7 billion for the F35 program, veritable flying fortresses that we need like air to defend our borders, can we not find a billion, just one billion, so as not to lose the information war that is being waged right now in our own backyard, seriously threatening our national security and, in the end, even our very real sovereignty.
Sociological research indicates an acute need for public policies to address the current structural grievances (poverty, inequality, corruption) and the current informational and educational shortcomings (knowledge of real history, minimum foundations of general knowledge, etc.).
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