Among current and former intellectuals of Traian Băsescu a war has started. And harsh words are flying in the online. Historian Adrian Papahagi, former or current member of the People’s Movement is attacking harshly on Facebook Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, the NGO leader who was on the brink of running on the PDL lists for the European elections.
"I would not want to live in a country where Alina Mungiu and her rescuing , clean and united gang, would be in power. Soviets commissioners would appear small children compared to this monster of arrogance, intolerance and dull ideology. After they would destroy our churches, confiscate our babies, they would leash us directly into the brain, not just via emails and phone calls, we would be kicked out of our chairs and we would be put in jail, in the rehabilitation center there would be a guy with a cap on his head, promoted official ideologist, who would explain to us that it is no big deal. I would prefer that Romania be led by corrupt swindlers. Vanghelie is a thousand times preferable to Mungiu: their cultural ignorance is essential the same, only the literacy differs. Vanghelie is even more tolerant and sympathetic, "wrote Adrian Papahagi on Facebook.