Good-Bye, Dracula!

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Good-bye, Dracula was written at a time when a nostalgia for communism was on the rise in the former soviet bloc countries after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Stat property was quickly transferred to a few thousand people, mostly former high-level communist party officials and secret police top brass. This left a large portion of the people, both young and old, to stuffle for their very existence. Political corruption became widespread and led to disappointment and anger.This book is more than a memoir. It allowx the reader to experiene communist Romania through the eyes of an innovent child growing up in the 1950s in Transylvania. It follows his life as a student and later as a member of the Romanian Foreign Intelligence Service, a powerful organization working directly for Nicolae Ceausescu, the leader of the Romanian Communist Party. This fascinating and personal account gives an insider's view of communism and why it should never again be considered as a viable political option.