When Ceaușescu flew by helicopter from the rooftop of the Central Committee in the Palace Square, in the last month of 1989, Romania should have shifted to a democratic regime. But those who had been in the service of the dictator up to the instant of his flight turned into the new statesmen, known as the National Salvation Front (Frontul Salvării Naționale). To put it plainly, the new leaders were also former communists. In 1990, the transition is onlu about to start.