Name and shame: Adrian Păunescu
Finding hypocrisies with former Ceauşescu court poet, post-1989 apologist, and most recently PSM-then-PSD Senator Adrian Păunescu amounts to shooting fish in a barrel, but this one really sticks in the craw.
To wit: Păunescu just recognized that the late Octavian Paler, as editor of România liberă, gave him a writing job for three days a week in the early 1970s, at a time when the former had been unemployed for a year, looking to feed his young children.
What's more, Păunescu expressed regret about the rupture in the friendship after 1989.
It's so comforting to see one of the most prominent Ceauşist gadflies before and after '89 suddenly pluck up the courage to confess all this (to the mass media, mind) - after Paler is gone.
No wonder Paler was so disgusted with the behavior of post-communist politicians and intellectuals. You've outdone yourself, Adriane.
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