7. REVOLUTION. Hopes and concerns

Deprived of food, light and warmth, humiliated and captive, Romanians revolt. Paris talks about the heroes of Timisoara and Bucharest, about death and freedom. The revolution stirs a wave of emotion among the Romanians in exile. But the summary trial of the Ceausescu family raises the first doubts. The National Salvation Front, supposedly formed in those days, had already been in place for six months. It had also been known for several years that Ion Iliescu was the Kremlin's favourite successor.