Citizens! To ensure you have jobs buy only products which carry the label 'Made in Romania'.
No. This sign (between Azuga and Sinaia, just before one of those ‘markets’ selling ethnic crap – most of which is, ahem, Chinese) has been around a while but it is not that old. Who put it there, and who maintains it, is a mystery. If the local authorities are responsible for it then it almost certainly flouts some EU law on protectionism.
Nevertheless, at a time when across the globe all sorts of nationalists, socialists and economic midgets are calling for protectionist measures it seems peculiarly apt
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It’s definetly not Communist because back then they had other means of making people buy Romanian products: foreign products were very rare and only available to priviledged pockets.
How could you tell people to buy Romanian products instead of foreign products when you forbid them to hold foreign currency?!
It sounds like 92-94 stuff.
Talking of comrade-sort of slogans, have a look here. Brilliant, even though it looks surreal now. One can find the album here, it is worth every ban.
Hi, I think you are jumping the gun a bit regarding protectionism in this marginal European country. Romanians are just minnows when compared with the French protectionism or the countless hysterical-fitful “Buy British” campaigns ever since the Great Depression. The one you mentioned taking place during the crisis of mid ‘70s is just one of them and even now another one is unfurling there: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/01/24/prince-charles-backs-mirror-s-buy-british-campaign-115875-21066223/
Valentin
There was a campaign in the UK in the late 1970s to ‘Buy British’. It died a quick death when people realised that we didn’t actually make anything worth buying.
Not only that this is protectionist and might be sued in Brussels, but it sounds like Communist crap (E.g. “Citizens! Comrades! Do your best for the future prospects of Socialist Romania!”). As for who might have placed such signs (there are more of them I noticed across the country), this could be a lead (even though they have not done much lately)…