Whenever I read or see videos about people managing to escape from North Korea and I find out about the way life is lived there, I cannot but fearfully think that probably it would have been our way of living too, hadn’t been for the Revolution that took place in 1989. Adelin Petrișor’s documentary makes me think that I am not so far from the truth.
Especially, since he mentions that after his visit in 1971 to Pyongyang, Ceaușescu was so much impressed with the sumptuous receptions that he copied them in Romania, too.
“The Surrogate”
centers upon the connection with Zoia Ceaușescu, the first impressions, the
agitation that followed, the unexpected things she did or said. And less upon
the setting; even though there are some mentions regarding the abuses, the
privations, and even Romania’s fame in Germany for certain privations. The Decree
770 hovers about the entire novel like a hawk flying in circles until deciding
which prey to clinch into its claws.
Usually, each reader
keeps within a small part of the books they had read. From “The
Surrogate”, I choose to keep that passionate longing and search for freedom.
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