Romania after 20 years of capitalism

Two decades ago Romania saw Ceausescu's era came to an abrupt and bloody end in full crisis of the communist world, whilst now it is experiencing capitalism's most acute crisis. In the winter of 1989, an architect was in Abu Dhabi and had just decided to never return to Romania, while he was looking for a solution to shadow a grand stand. An engineer at the Intreprinderea de Avioane Bucuresti (Bucharest Aeroplane Factory) felt that unlike in the other countries in the communist bloc, there was nothing that could be changed in Romania, perhaps influenced by his refusal to become a member of the Communist Party a while before, a move then able to hinder any career, if there were any careers to talk about in communist Romania. A 2nd year student at the Faculty of Law within the Bucharest University noticed the coldness of the faculty halls both in the concrete and the figurative sense. One kid was bracing himself for high school and found the jostling crowd queuing for food a nuisance. Two decades later, the architect, whose name is Dinu Patriciu, is chosen by Ziarul Financiar readers as Romania's biggest capitalist, the aviation engineer teaches Kaizen, the management philosophy that drives Japanese companies forward, former university student Doru Bostina runs a top-five business law firm, high school student Stefan Liute has become an expert in corporate identity, a manager and shareholder of Grapefruit branding agency. These are just a few instances of what could be called Romania's about-face made after 1989, the profound change in people's career path. This is, in fact, perhaps the biggest achievement of capitalist Romania, the freedom to change one's destiny. Read more about it in Business Magazin.