It’s truly bizarre to me how when eastern Europeans like us talk about our countries, our opinions don’t matter because some poll contradicts us. You know far better than I do what was and is going on in Hungary, but talking about Romania like the streets were paved in gold during the communist period is utterly bizarre when many families spent their life savings on getting smuggled out of the country via Serbia, Roma were the target of an attempted genocide via forced adoption, many Hungarian minority towns were intentionally disadvantaged, and Jews, while initially huge supporters of the Romanian communist movement (for obvious reasons), were later systematically purged from any position of power and the government eventually came up with a deal with Israel to get Israel to pay thousands of dollar per Jew allowed to leave.

None of these sound like the hallmarks of an equitable, safe and stable society.