Characters
Thought that bad things happened to philosophers
Who is Cristian's mom (Moira Florescu)
Bucharest was once the little brother of this famed City of Lights
What is Paris, France?
Cristian's "crime"
Trafficking in foreign currency (US Dollars)
Define glasnost or perestroika.
What is openness or restructuring.
A killer hard rock song and a manipulative propaganda technique meant to misrepresent a sociopathic leader
What is Cult of Personality?
The human Netflix of Bucharest
Who is Starfish?
Called "the forbidden station" throughout the Iron Curtain.
What is Radio Free Europe?
Name two of the four banned foods that Cristian sampled or shared in the book.
What are Coca-Cola, Twinkies, Chocolate, or Bananas
The fall of this iconic structure signaled the symbolic end of commumism.
What is the Berlin Wall
These are as good as cash in Bucharest.
What are Kent Cigarettes?
He should have gone to Starbucks instead
Who is Bunu?
Where Cristian first learned of Hungary's revolution, spurring his first hope for Romania.
What is the cover of Time Magazine?
Stood in line for three hours for an expired can of beans.
Who is Cristian's dad?
This is the name for the line of countries in Eastern Europe that fell under Soviet Control.
What is the Iron Curtain?
The illness that did NOT kill Bunu.
What is Leukemia?
Likely a fan of Real Madrid, but should have been a Rafa Nadal fan
Who is Agent Paddlehands?
He literally gave his right arm for the revolution.
Who is Luca Oprea?
These two characters shared a ride to Jilava.
Who are Cristian and Liliana?
This is the year all of this fun takes place.
What is 1989?
Christmas Classic that Cristian and Liliana watched in Starfish's apartment.
What is Die Hard?
Twice as committed to to the profession as the other informers.
Who is Cici?
Town was the beginning of the end for the Ceaucescu regime.
What is Timosoara?
Mr Van Dorn gave Cristian's notebook to RFE, which was titled this.
What is Screaming Whispers
The name given to the 50 year tough guy posturing between the USA and the USSR.
What is the Cold War?
Czechoslovakia's painless and non-violent revolution was as soft as this.
What is Velvet?