Ioan-Aurel Pop. « The deepest lesson, but which we refused to learn »

Present at an event « dedicated to reflection on the inner force and national identity of the Romanians », with the theme « The psychological and historical resilience of the Romanians », which took place in Cluj-Napoca, the president of the Romanian Academy said, without appointing the countries around Romania to which they refer to the « peoples ».

« We have countries around, and I do not want to name them, who think that the sacrifice must go to the last man. They do not win anything. The peoples who go to the supreme sacrifice are lost. The small and medium peoples are lost in history, they lose their meaning.

Learn at school by Goths, Huni, Gepis, Avari, Tatars, Pechenegs, Cumani-they went. They melted in other peoples. And we will melt, probably. But it is not good to contribute to this melting, « Pop stressed, at the end of a wider answer about » the deepest lesson that history has offered us as a people, but which we have really refused to learn, « said Ioan-Aurel Pop.

The Romanian people have been « saved » throughout their history of a balance between « preserving the right-wing between resistance and conciliation, » said the president of the Academy.

Qasked about « the dream that Romania is not yet permit »

« It did not allow it to be a great power, but it should not. No, we should have the sense of realities and until recently I had it. I had it that way, with volutes, sometimes yes, sometimes I had more than no, » said Ioan-Aurel Pop.