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Used to have a long enmity with Hungary, especially over Transylvania (a bit more on this historical conflict on the [[Hungary]] page), but that's mostly boiled over by now and the two countries get along well enough. Average citizens from the two countries may still dislike/hate the residents of the other country though.
Transylvania, setting for "Dracula", is in Romania - now. It was transferred from Hungary at the end of [[World War
In other words, when someone tries to do a gritty adaptation of Dracula and has him speaking Romanian to up the realism, they're wrong. He should be speaking Hungarian. If they were making a film about Vlad Dracul, Wallachian prince and freedom fighter also known as "The Impaler", ''then'' he ought to be speaking Romanian.
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By 1985-1989, at the tail end of Ceaușescu's "pay off debt by starving the population" phase, the entire network's runtime had been reduced to two hours, containing mostly patriotic songs. The people were not amused. People could still watch foreign stations with make-shift (or very expensive, depending on the case) "black market" parabolic antennas. For the worst of those, they could see Russian, Moldovan and Bulgarian stations. For the best, they could tune to French ones.
After the fall of Communism in the '90s, television tried to grow, but unfortunately TVR was the only available option and still in the grasp of the Neo-Communists that had come to power. One of the first (free, private) stations was [https://web.archive.org/web/20120224204716/http://www.wikinfo.org/index.php/Tele7ABC Tele7ABC], but the first mainstream television station to hold its ground as leader even today was Pro TV, ''was created in 1995''.
Film rights and airing were scarce, but televisions tried. While the copyright law made it fair game (''now, in 2010'', in Moldova, there are still reports of movies being aired directly from downloaded from the internet by national stations), we didn't really needed the problems. On the other hand, television ratings were nonexistent until the 2000s (even 2005). This implied nothing short of porn could be aired all day or all night (there were attempts to forbid porn as "violating public morals" or whatever) - 16+ horrors at 8 o'clock, etc, if you can imagine it, it was aired whenever they liked it. This was partly due to the authorities' fear that they'd be accused of limiting the "freedom of the press" ([[Double Standard|while stealing everything there was to steal left from the old regime]]), and coincided with the country's "Wild West / Aggressive Capitalism" period, where almost anything, however legal, semi-legal or ''illegal'' it was, was mostly fair game (short of stealing from someone's house: steal millions of dollars from a bank, split up the profit with the country's rulership, profit; you steal an apple from someone's house, [[Disproportionate Retribution|5 years jail, no discussion]]).
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* The [[Roma]] - their actual number in the general population is not large and never was, yet they are [[Wrong Side of the Tracks|disproportionately represented in the criminal class]]. They suffer from terrible poverty, prejudice against them and "invisibility" - according to a UN survey, Romania is the most highly segregated society in Eastern Europe when it comes to the separation between the Roma and the rest of the population.
* Poverty - most street begging is actually ''professional and profitable'', playing on the [[Chronic Hero Syndrome|compulsive duty of the average Romanian to appear compassionate]].
=== Famous Romanians ===
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