It was the beginning of 1980. The ones
who knew him, remembers the famous general
meetings with the employees from Romania,
before 1990, which were meant to be a survey
time and also a moment of setting up new
directions of action for the development of
institutions and enterprises. Those were not very
popular moments for the employees due to the
fact that they were formal, pompous, and
sometime full of reproaches for the people in
charge with the leadership of the economic
institutions and enterprises. Only the people
active in the ruling party maybe agreed these
meetings believing in their mobilizing effect over
the working “people masses”. Back then we were
working in a scientific research institution that
belonged to The Center of Biological Research
Iasi, whose laboratories and offices were placed
in The Faculty of Biology, University „Al. I.
Cuza” from Iasi. It was launched the so called
triad “education-research-production”, which
could meant something if it was supported with
the proper material and logistic issues, but in fact
it was just a slogan, as formal as the meetings we
previously spoke about. The lack of a proper
financing, the poor endowment of labs, the lack
of scientific documentations, of stages of forming
and specialization of young researchers made this
empty of any content (unfortunately now, after 20
years of freedom and democracy the things are
even worst than then). | 
