Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated:
1
00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000
Downloaded from
YTS.MX
2
00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000
Official YIFY movies site:
YTS.MX
3
00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:37,920
-Oh my God, come on.
-Is this the place?
4
00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:40,800
-The flag, look at the flag!
-Where do you see the flag?
5
00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:43,320
There it is, on the pole.
Come on, go on in.
6
00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:11,800
My condolences. Stefan Mandachi.
7
00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:14,240
-Stefan Mandachi.
-Ion.
8
00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:16,320
I'm so sorry.
9
00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:19,880
I heard about your tragedy
and I was deeply touched.
10
00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:21,720
I was honestly afraid to come here.
11
00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:25,760
We don't want to intrude
or anything like that…
12
00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:30,720
We're working on a project about
the lack of highways in Romania.
13
00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:18,200
Oh my God!
14
00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:45,200
And the five year old kid…
The kids were in the back seat, right?
15
00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:47,880
Yes, in the back seat,
with their seatbelts on.
16
00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:52,000
And the woman was also wearing
her seatbelt?
17
00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:54,560
Yes, they all had their seatbelts on.
18
00:03:56,880 --> 00:03:57,960
Oh, my God!
19
00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:04,040
Where were the kids injured?
How were they injured?
20
00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:08,080
They hit their heads.
21
00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:17,640
Just terrible…Terrible!
22
00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:24,680
-They weren't doing anything wrong?
-No, they were following the rules.
23
00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:33,320
Come on.
24
00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:38,880
Please, come have some juice.
25
00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:41,240
Come into the house!
26
00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:55,440
My condolences.
27
00:04:57,120 --> 00:04:58,640
-Are we going inside?
-Yes, sure.
28
00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:02,520
First, ask the Lord
29
00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:04,560
to take care of these innocent children
30
00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:06,600
moved into eternity.
31
00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:10,520
Nothing brings comfort,
32
00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:13,400
to the family and to everyone else.
33
00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:17,840
God, You take car of the children
in this life,
34
00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:23,320
and in the next one,
because they are pure,
35
00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:29,960
take them in a bright place,
36
00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:32,640
where are the souls of the innocent,
37
00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:36,680
receive in Your home
the soul of the children.
38
00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:40,840
Christ rise from de dead
39
00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:44,600
and gave life to the worthy ones.
40
00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:46,760
God Almighty,
41
00:06:46,840 --> 00:06:49,720
through the prayers of Mary,
Mother of Christ,
42
00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:52,800
take the souls of the innocent
43
00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:57,680
in a place full of peace,
watched over by angels.
44
00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:01,000
Have mercy on us, sinners,
45
00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:04,720
because You are full of love.
46
00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:13,960
CHAPTER 1: 30 YEARS
47
00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:26,520
I know that every month in Romania
about 150 people die in car accidents.
48
00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:31,600
In other words, the equivalent
of a plane crash each month in Romania.
49
00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:39,320
{\an8}We're adding the information that Romaniahas the most dangerous roads in the EU.
50
00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:41,280
{\an8}I say roads,because there are no highways.
51
00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:42,320
{\an8}There are so few of them.
52
00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:47,520
{\an8}We're the country with the fewest highwaysin relation to land size.
53
00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:51,320
{\an8}What worries us most is thatin Romania people die on the roads.
54
00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:55,000
Here again, Romania has the highestnumbers in the EU.
55
00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:12,320
We're crossing the Carpathian Mountains
on Roman and Austro-Hungarian roads.
56
00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:15,080
You, as well as I,
when going towards Transylvania.
57
00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:17,640
From Moldova as well,
Roman and Austro-Hungarian roads…
58
00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:19,720
improved by Ceausescu, it's true…
59
00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:21,720
That's shameful!
60
00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:32,720
The first ones to blame or the factthat we have no highways
61
00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:35,200
are the Romanian people!
62
00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:36,880
Because we weren't capable
63
00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:42,800
of electing leaders to build them.
64
00:08:57,360 --> 00:08:59,240
They say you can't remember things
65
00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:01,480
that happened to you
before the age of four,
66
00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:04,400
and that if you do remember something,
67
00:09:04,680 --> 00:09:07,080
you can't be sure
that's how it really happened.
68
00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:10,560
I wasn't even four when the revolution
took place…
69
00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:12,160
Go back to your places, comrades!
70
00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:13,480
…in December 1989.
71
00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:18,400
{\an8}Even so, I can't forget how my grandma
cried, and how scared she was.
72
00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:23,280
She didn't quite know why she was crying
but I had a feeling she pitied Ceausescu.
73
00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:29,000
I didn't know what was happening,
but it seemed important.
74
00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:31,480
Please, ask him to sit on the bed.
75
00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:33,520
Among the images of the Ceausescus,
76
00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:37,160
I was also seeing two people that
seemed to be saving the country:
77
00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:38,880
Petre Roman and Iliescu.
78
00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:44,600
My brothers, the dictator Ceausescuhas been overthrown.
79
00:09:44,680 --> 00:09:50,440
Dear viewers, we are glad to haveIon Iliescu here in the studio!
80
00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:52,360
Bravo!
81
00:09:56,560 --> 00:10:00,840
He's the son of a revolutionary,of a patriot!
82
00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:02,800
He himself is a patriot!
83
00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:07,920
I never quite understood who was shooting
and who was dying…
84
00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,080
{\an8}There was a general sense of fear
in our house.
85
00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:12,600
{\an8}The Revolution was live on TV.
86
00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:16,640
I was staring at images
of Ceausescu and his wife lying dead.
87
00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:18,000
He seemed sweaty
88
00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:20,360
and smoke seemed to be coming out
of his coat.
89
00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:23,480
I remember she had a fur collar
on her coat.
90
00:10:23,560 --> 00:10:25,680
{\an8}REST IN PEACE, OUR DEAD
91
00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:27,480
{\an8}ETERNAL GLORY TO THE FALLEN ONES
92
00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:36,320
{\an8}More than 1,000 people died
in the revolution of 1989.
93
00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:38,520
Nearly all of them innocent…
94
00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:45,560
One, two, go!
95
00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:48,160
Bravo!
96
00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:50,080
Back then, I was living with my family
in the countryside
97
00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:51,640
in a village called St. Ilie.
98
00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:55,880
After the Revolution,
Mom brought home a video player.
99
00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:59,240
I watched Bruce Lee movies all day long.
100
00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:04,080
He was my childhood hero…
along with Jean-Claude van Damme.
101
00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:07,320
I would watch these movies
102
00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:10,080
and then recreate the karate moves
with my twin brother.
103
00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:15,080
When I wasn't fighting him,
I was drawing ninjas or cars.
104
00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:18,080
Especially after I got a toy car
as a present.
105
00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:19,880
A Lamborghini Diablo!
106
00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:22,520
Santa Claus with white hair
107
00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:24,840
Came through the snow
108
00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:28,160
After that, I became fascinated with cars.
109
00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:31,040
I was driving cars all day long,
on imaginary roads.
110
00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:34,120
-Santa Claus!-Bravo!
111
00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:38,840
When we'd go into the city to Suceava,
112
00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:41,160
my brother and I would compete
113
00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:43,560
to find the fastest car
in the parking lot.
114
00:11:45,560 --> 00:11:48,920
I was the first to find a foreign model
that went 220km/hour.
115
00:11:50,560 --> 00:11:51,600
It was a Citroen.
116
00:11:55,560 --> 00:11:57,640
The first expensive cars started to appear
in Romania
117
00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:00,120
brought from the West
by Romanian "nouveau riches".
118
00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:03,760
My dream was to also own a foreign car
one day.
119
00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:06,720
Any car, as long as it wasn't a Dacia.
120
00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:14,680
Most chances we had to see foreign cars
were when we'd go to the seaside.
121
00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:16,160
We had a station wagon.
122
00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:20,920
My brother and I were staring
out the window
123
00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:24,600
and terrorizing our Dad to pass
as many cars as possible with our Dacia.
124
00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:29,280
Mom would tell him to slow down because
"he's not one of the kids".
125
00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:35,000
The sea, the beach, the sunare all waiting for us
126
00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:37,400
to enjoy all they have to offer.
127
00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:41,840
It's just as true that these pleasurescannot be overshadowed
128
00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:45,320
by tragic events that we're rarely facing…
129
00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:48,600
I mean, often, on public roads.
130
00:12:48,680 --> 00:12:54,320
These are the unfortunate consequencesof ignoring traffic laws.
131
00:12:55,560 --> 00:12:58,760
The noise would suddenly stop
when we'd come across a car accident.
132
00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:02,800
Dad would point to the carnage
and then he'd scold us.
133
00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:06,000
"How can you drive fast on these roads?!"
134
00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:10,160
Mom would make the sign of the cross
and forbid us to look.
135
00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:14,040
But we would peek,
even though we were scared.
136
00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:19,240
After every accident, they would mumble
that nothing works in this country…
137
00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:20,880
That we have no roads, no streets…
138
00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:24,400
Followed by intense debates
about our politicians.
139
00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:27,640
I would have never imagined
that over the years
140
00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:31,960
I would meet many of them in person.
141
00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:35,160
When I was the Prime Minister,
142
00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:38,960
in September 1991,
143
00:13:40,680 --> 00:13:45,640
{\an8}I made an agreement with two
of the most important Italian firms,
144
00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:49,080
that had built thousands of kilometers
of highways.
145
00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:54,080
We planned on building
4,000 km of highways
146
00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:56,160
for 6,8 billion dollars.
147
00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:02,080
Romania didn't have resources
to build 4,000 km of highways.
148
00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:03,120
We didn't have the money.
149
00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:07,320
{\an8}No one would lend Romania a cent
150
00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:09,600
{\an8}because they had no idea
what was going on here.
151
00:14:09,680 --> 00:14:14,880
Thousands of miners, with bats and chains,
fires and so on…
152
00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:19,520
All the political and economic trust
153
00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:21,360
just crashed to below zero!
154
00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:24,280
Obviously,
nothing could be achieved after that!
155
00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:26,000
{\an8}I was five, at that time.
156
00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:29,200
{\an8}It felt like watching the Revolution
all over again.
157
00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:31,800
And now it was broadcast live on TV.
158
00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:36,080
If we add the deaths from the Mineriads
to the ones from the Revolution,
159
00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:39,520
add to the calculation Romania's
biggest plane crash,
160
00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:46,200
plus everyone who died in floods
and fires from '89 to 2020,
161
00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:50,200
and, on top of that, if we add all
the victims of the '77 earthquake,
162
00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:52,080
it's still less than the amount of people
163
00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:55,520
who die here in car crashes
in a single year.
164
00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:04,440
{\an8}For example, in Romania in 1991,
3,078 lost their lives on the roads.
165
00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:08,000
{\an8}Thousands of people continue
to die every year in car crashes.
166
00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:10,080
But it's not publicized as it should be.
167
00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:17,200
In '93, Dad bought me
my first pair of jeans.
168
00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:19,720
Two sizes too big,
as was the style back then.
169
00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:22,080
I tore my jeans playing soccer
170
00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:25,720
when Raducioiu and Hagi had convinced me
that I was going to be a soccer player.
171
00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:27,520
Hagi has the ball,
172
00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:31,520
Ionut Lupescu is in a good position.
173
00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:33,520
He passes to Hagi.
174
00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:38,280
Hagi's passing to Ilie Dumitrescu.
175
00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:39,960
Goal!
176
00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:44,360
When it came to soccer,
I was really proud of Romania.
177
00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:49,720
Outside of that, when I turned ten,
I was very much concerned with politics.
178
00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:52,520
Instead of watching soccer on Eurosport,
179
00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:55,840
I had to watch political debates
with my parents,
180
00:15:56,560 --> 00:15:58,320
and I was even starting
to understand them.
181
00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:00,480
{\an8}Concerning the theoretical part,
182
00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:02,640
{\an8}I never denied you are rather good,Mr. Iliescu.
183
00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:05,360
{\an8}-In theory and in statements.-Not only in theory, Mr. Constantinescu.
184
00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:08,400
In theory, absolutely!You're wonderful there…
185
00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:10,640
I was talkingabout a constitutional principle.
186
00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:14,360
You, with the juridical educationyou have,
187
00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:15,880
you could understand it better than me.
188
00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:18,080
I want to point out that…
189
00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:21,920
that you're being too colloquial…
190
00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,280
I'd stop caring about politics
and forget about soccer
191
00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:27,320
when I'd drive bumper cars at the fair.
192
00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:29,400
I loved to take sharp turns
193
00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:32,720
until someone else
slammed into me with his car.
194
00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:37,680
I hit my head on the wheel
and broke two teeth.
195
00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:38,840
Driving is no joke!
196
00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:42,000
You can get in trouble on any road.
197
00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:45,320
{\an8}Our big issueis the terrestrial infrastructure,
198
00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:47,320
{\an8}so roads and railway infrastructure,
199
00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:51,240
{\an8}which, for decades,
200
00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:55,360
we haven't been ableto raise to an acceptable standard.
201
00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:58,720
You sold the topic rather well,like in the Ministry of Transportation.
202
00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:01,200
There are so many accidentson the national roads.
203
00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:06,160
And that is because our roadsare not safe,
204
00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:07,680
and not only because of speed.
205
00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:13,920
Because many people think thataccidents are just because of speeding.
206
00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:17,320
But we have roads that leave youwith absolutely no margin of error.
207
00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:21,240
There are roadsthat simply need another lane.
208
00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:23,880
{\an8}I remember that I met with a politician,
with Mr. Basescu,
209
00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:26,320
{\an8}in his office, during the '90s.
210
00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:29,080
{\an8}In his office
at the Ministry of Transportation.
211
00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:31,480
And, at the end of our conversation,
I asked him,
212
00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:33,680
off the record,
"how about those highways?"
213
00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:36,520
"Don't we want to build any?"
214
00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:39,440
I remember it clearly,
I was close to a wall,
215
00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:43,280
with a map of the Romanian transportation
network on it, and he said "Look."
216
00:17:43,360 --> 00:17:46,440
"That's the plan I'm thinking of.
This is what we need.
217
00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:48,760
We don't need highways,
they are too expensive.
218
00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:51,640
We need express roads,
there will be enough of those.
219
00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:56,160
We will never have enough traffic
to need highways."
220
00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:00,320
{\an8}At the end of the '90s,
I was playing soccer all day long.
221
00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:03,840
I scored two goals in the final
of the National Junior League.
222
00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:06,840
As a reward,
my Dad taught me how to drive.
223
00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:12,040
As a new driver,
224
00:18:12,120 --> 00:18:14,840
I was starting to understand
the importance of good roads.
225
00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:17,880
Not long after, when I was 13,
226
00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:20,400
I stole my Grandpa's car
and took my friends for a joyride.
227
00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:22,560
It was a Volkswagon Jetta.
228
00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:25,320
I was obsessed with that car.
229
00:18:26,120 --> 00:18:27,280
I still see it, every day.
230
00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:29,920
I have a mural of it.
231
00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:32,560
It's a scene inspired by Mad Max.
232
00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:36,200
The movie looks like it was shot
on our roads in the '90s.
233
00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:38,320
But life is better than movies.
234
00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:41,520
In real life,
our country's roads were a disaster,
235
00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:43,360
and we really needed those highways.
236
00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:47,440
{\an8}Our main issue is building a highwaytowards the West
237
00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:52,480
{\an8}if we are taking into considerationbecoming part of the EU.
238
00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:57,280
{\an8}Sure, some are upset about our air fleet,others over our roads…
239
00:18:57,360 --> 00:18:59,080
Everyone is upset about something.
240
00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:02,560
Even for a teen, it was easy to understand
what a highway was.
241
00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:07,400
A larger, safer road,
with no crosses, and high speeds.
242
00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:08,880
Like abroad.
243
00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:12,680
In 2004, I went abroad for the first time.
244
00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:17,120
With a temporary visa,
we went on a school trip through Europe.
245
00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:19,840
I was finally stepping in the EU.
246
00:19:20,360 --> 00:19:23,240
The enchanted realm for most Romanians.
247
00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:24,720
Our only hope of being saved!
248
00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:28,640
I took a thousand photos
of old buildings and monuments,
249
00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:31,480
but I was just as delighted
about my own discovery.
250
00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:36,000
European tourism and economy
were connected through highways.
251
00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:41,120
From Hungary to Paris,
we drove only on the highway!
252
00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:45,400
It became clear to me that,
after EU integration,
253
00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:47,040
we would also get highways.
254
00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:52,480
Our Bucovina monasteries
would be connected with all of Europe.
255
00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:54,760
We, too, would get millions of tourists,
256
00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:56,200
just as we visit them
257
00:19:57,400 --> 00:19:59,840
The future looked bright,
and everything was coming together.
258
00:19:59,920 --> 00:20:01,720
I was finally getting my driver's license!
259
00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:03,800
I was feeling fulfilled.
260
00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:06,640
Especially since now I could also vote.
261
00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:09,000
{\an8}And, as a grown man,
262
00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:12,280
I had to be careful
for whom I was casting my vote.
263
00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:17,560
{\an8}What curse has come over this country
264
00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:20,560
{\an8}that it ended up
265
00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:25,320
{\an8}choosing between two former communists?
266
00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:27,960
Between Adrian Nastase and Basescu.
267
00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:31,480
{\an8}At that time Basescu won my vote,
268
00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:33,720
{\an8}I don't know
if it was the same for others,
269
00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:38,280
because he promised a highway
from Arad to Constanta.
270
00:20:38,360 --> 00:20:42,200
The second one to blame
is his partner from back then
271
00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:46,480
the Prime Minister, Calin Anton
Constantin Popescu Tariceanu,
272
00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:52,000
who, in four years, didn't manage
to build one meter of highway!
273
00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:55,080
{\an8}So, there are no highways
and that's why people are dying.
274
00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:59,640
{\an8}So the culprits
are the Romanian presidents,
275
00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:02,440
who didn't know how to push
the political class
276
00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:04,640
to build highways,
so that fewer people die.
277
00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:07,240
{\an8}Ion Iliescu is to be blamed, mainly,
278
00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:10,800
{\an8}because he didn't have…
the wisdom, let's say,
279
00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:13,240
to push Romania towards Europe.
280
00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:17,320
Nicolae Vacaroiu
had a period of political stability,
281
00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:19,960
but nothing happened with infrastructure.
282
00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:21,440
{\an8}I nominate myself.
283
00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:24,280
{\an8}It's easy to blame others.
284
00:21:24,360 --> 00:21:27,720
{\an8}Adrian Nastase
is the first in the ranking,
285
00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:29,080
{\an8}I also know him very well.
286
00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:33,280
{\an8}Traian Basescu stopped the works,
after 2004,
287
00:21:33,360 --> 00:21:36,840
trying to see if the American company
288
00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:40,520
paid a fee to the socialist PSD government
289
00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:41,920
or even to myself, personally.
290
00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:45,480
Basescu was saying,
"Tariceanu doesn't let me build."
291
00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:47,600
Iohannis says, "Dragnea is to blame".
292
00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:49,320
Dragnea is blaming Iohannis.
293
00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:50,800
{\an8}Are they all equally to blame?
294
00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:53,280
{\an8}Categorically, they can't all be
on the same level.
295
00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:54,440
{\an8}Who's the guiltiest?
296
00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:58,640
Many are the guiltiest.
297
00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:05,040
{\an8}After many years, and many struggles,
we made it into the EU.
298
00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:14,720
I was a university student at the time.
299
00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:19,800
I was driving 145 km
from Suceava to Iasi every week.
300
00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:22,960
Over four years I drove this route
maybe 400 times.
301
00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:24,560
When we were in high school,
302
00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:26,480
I my brother and I would fight
over who got to drive.
303
00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:28,320
Now neither of us wanted to drive.
304
00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:32,600
I was forced to drive on a road
that passed through 21 villages
305
00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:34,640
and was interrupted
by four railroad tracks.
306
00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:37,000
I had to pay attention to pedestrians,
307
00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:41,600
bikers, animals, tractors,
carts, and trucks
308
00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:44,640
that were circulating like blocks
on wheels, from the opposite direction.
309
00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:46,720
The driving directions were not separated.
310
00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:48,520
There was no protective parapet.
311
00:22:49,120 --> 00:22:52,240
Every time I passed someone,
I was forced to go on the opposite lane.
312
00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:54,480
The road to Iasi took almost three hours,
313
00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,120
instead of the one hour
it would take on a highway.
314
00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:02,120
Between then and now, 2020,
nothing has changed!
315
00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:07,160
From around 2000
we could have focused on highways,
316
00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:10,000
and we really could have from 2007.
317
00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:14,000
Since we'd just been accepted into the EU,
our politicians were promising
318
00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:16,160
that we'd have a highway network
319
00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:18,840
that would cover to country
from one border to the other,
320
00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:20,480
but not before 2016.
321
00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:23,320
That's when I really started to get angry.
322
00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:25,480
I was getting older,
but still no highways.
323
00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:27,520
I would turn 30 in 2016
324
00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:31,760
{\an8}It's too early to say we're seeingsomething consistent from a helicopter.
325
00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:37,720
{\an8}Bechtel doesn't have the workforceto keep up with the money we're spending.
326
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:43,040
{\an8}In the next eight years, we'll have
more than 2,000 km of highways
327
00:23:43,120 --> 00:23:44,320
and express roads.
328
00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:49,600
In the next few years
we will build 725 km of highways.
329
00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:55,160
{\an8}We will build 608,91 km,
330
00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:59,840
{\an8}of which 6,3 km will be highways
331
00:23:59,920 --> 00:24:01,920
{\an8}from the state budget.
332
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:06,160
{\an8}Luckily we're inaugurating highways,so that I get the chance to drive.
333
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:07,760
{\an8}It's important to inaugurate them!
334
00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:10,880
{\an8}You know how it goes, inaugurating 10 km…
335
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:14,440
Short Prime Ministersgive you short highways.
336
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:18,200
Whereas when the highway is longeryou'll see tall PMs behind it.
337
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:21,440
here are two major investmentsplanned for Moldova
338
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:23,840
that I am going to supportwith all my strength.
339
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:25,280
Targu Mures - Iasi - Ungheni
340
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:29,840
and the second highway project,connecting Northern and Southern Moldova,
341
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:32,560
Ploiesti - Focsani - Bacau - Suceava.
342
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:36,160
{\an8}For thirty years, we talked too much
and did too little.
343
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:42,360
{\an8}I calculated that,
if every day in these thirty years
344
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:48,640
we had ten politicians
speaking for two hours on TV
345
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:51,240
and, probably, these assumptions
are realistic enough,
346
00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:53,480
we would have 1,000 people
347
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:56,720
that could have worked three years
daily for this country.
348
00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:01,480
Between Pitesti and Slatina,
but also between Pitesti and Craiova,
349
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:06,400
there is a national road
with many deadly accidents,
350
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:09,480
on which you see signs with
351
00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:13,880
"This number of yearly deaths
on this road. Drive slowly!"
352
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:15,920
There was this movement
353
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,600
for what we used to call
the "Oltenia highway"
354
00:25:19,120 --> 00:25:22,800
with which PSD won the votes
of the people in the region.
355
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:25,800
Guess what? A few years later,
356
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:30,000
us, from Oltenia and you, from Moldova,
were mocking each other
357
00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:33,960
about highways being built for us
that we never saw.
358
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:26,480
{\an8}Transylvania highway projectwas handled carelessly.
359
00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:31,040
How long has Mr. Basescu been president?Since 2004? Yes, since 2004.
360
00:26:31,120 --> 00:26:35,680
Until now,there were 40 km built around Cluj.
361
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:37,200
Very good, I'm not saying it was bad.
362
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:38,520
But that was all.
363
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:42,840
Next year is 2014.The Transylvania highway started in 2004.
364
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:46,280
We lost ten years out of stupidity,it's as simple as that.
365
00:26:46,360 --> 00:26:49,600
{\an8}At one point, they even talkedabout the costs
366
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,760
{\an8}per highway kilometer in Romaniabeing too high.
367
00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:56,680
{\an8}World Bank says it should be 40% cheaper.
368
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,560
{\an8}-Why is it so expensive in Romania?-I've stated that…
369
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:03,640
{\an8}We have evaluations that it should be30% cheaper.
370
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:08,200
{\an8}We will have, if you ask me,at the end of 2020
371
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:13,840
{\an8}after we finish these 1,780 km,that are under development right now,
372
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:17,400
around 3,000 km of highway.
373
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:19,760
{\an8}3,000 km, you say?
374
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:24,840
{\an8}Romania will have, in six years,3,000 km of highway?
375
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:26,640
Oh my God, he's totally lost it!
376
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,720
Right now we have somewhere under 700 km,
377
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,160
{\an8}and Dan Sova says that by 2020
378
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:35,360
{\an8}we'll build 2,300 km more!
379
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:39,760
{\an8}So that means if we build
380
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:43,440
{\an8}around 380 km each year--
381
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:47,200
{\an8}a year has, in general, 365 days.
382
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:51,760
{\an8}We don't know how Sova sees it,but it holds true for the rest of us.
383
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:57,960
{\an8}It means we should be buildingmore than one km of highway per day!
384
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:00,320
{\an8}Do you realize that?
385
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:05,240
{\an8}Now, while we're talking and Dan Sovais yawning somewhere in the Government
386
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:08,760
{\an8}the workers are finishinga new kilometer of highway.
387
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,280
{\an8}Where does he come up with that?
388
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:17,440
{\an8}In ten years,
a person can finish university,
389
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:19,480
{\an8}finish a Master's program,
390
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,640
{\an8}work for about two years,
then start a business,
391
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:24,600
{\an8}then develop it around the whole country.
392
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,560
{\an8}I did all this from 2005 to 2016.
393
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:29,840
{\an8}Time flies so fast!
394
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:31,920
During this time,
395
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,360
officials didn't manage to build
396
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,280
a single meter of highway
in all of Moldova.
397
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:41,720
I was running myself ragged
working on being successful.
398
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:48,680
My Mom was all over me to take it easy
otherwise I'd break.
399
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,000
This is the best!
400
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:54,520
"What would you do if you were forcedto take a day off?"
401
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:09,240
To develop my business,
402
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:12,800
I had to cross Romania tens of times,
from one end to the other.
403
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:16,800
Even more,
I had business travel abroad, as well.
404
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:21,080
When I ended up on a suspended highway
with ten lanes in one direction,
405
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:22,640
I grew even angrier
406
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,440
about how many innocent people
die on Romania's streets every day.
407
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:27,520
And I could be one of them.
408
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:54,440
No!
409
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:12,960
-Oh my God!
-There's a dead man lying there!
410
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:14,040
Oh my God!
411
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:21,760
Oh my God!
412
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:45,640
It was 2014.
413
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:49,800
I was coming back from Bucharestwith Stefan, from a franchising fair.
414
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:52,320
Around Urziceni,
415
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:56,880
{\an8}I saw a car coming our way
from the opposite direction, zig zagging.
416
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,120
I got scared,
and pulled the wheel to the right.
417
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:04,200
I saw the other car rolling towards us
418
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,000
and the driver was simply thrown
through the windscreen.
419
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:11,000
We stopped the car and ran towards him.
420
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:12,760
It was an older man.
421
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:18,240
We heard and saw him snort.
422
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:20,680
Stefan went and tried to resuscitate him,
423
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,920
but the man died.
424
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:28,000
Driving towards Suceava,it was the only thing we talked about.
425
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:29,000
From that point on,
426
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:31,040
Stefan talked a lotabout the lack of highways
427
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:33,640
and how easy it is to die on our roads.
428
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,520
2016. I made it to age 30.
429
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:39,920
Nothing changed.
430
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,240
2017. Nothing.
431
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:45,960
And here we are, in 2018.
432
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:47,560
EUROPEAN HIGHWAY NETWORK 2018
433
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:50,640
{\an8}We are beginning constructionon the Bucharest - Suceava highway.
434
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:53,520
{\an8}Alternate route through Barlad.
435
00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:00,160
{\an8}Did you see anything built?Could you place your finger on something?
436
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:02,040
A hospital?
437
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:03,480
{\an8}Any project… Highway? Anything?
438
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:06,840
{\an8}Today we're talking again aboutbudgets for feasibility studies.
439
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:09,280
{\an8}We did 200 already.
440
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,880
{\an8}They're not canned fish,they don't expire.
441
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:13,760
{\an8}They are there. The map did not change!
442
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:19,000
{\an8}Moldova is the only major regionwithout a highway,
443
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:24,640
even though this project has beenon the public agenda for eleven years.
444
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:29,320
The president just criticizes
the lack of highways.
445
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:31,920
But I don't think he can do anything.
446
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:37,600
He didn't try, at least,
to encourage the construction of highways.
447
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:39,160
You know what the big problem is?
448
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:44,360
In 2016, '17 and '18,
and now halfway through 2019,
449
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:45,880
we didn't sign any new contracts.
450
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:50,520
We will have a time, 2021, '22 and '23
451
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:52,760
when we won't have any new highways
to inaugurate.
452
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:55,640
And then the frustration
will grow even more.
453
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,240
"Hey, come on, we all steal a little."
454
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:00,760
"It's OK, but also do something
for the country…
455
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,400
But, obviously, everybody steals…"
456
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:08,000
I think this is one of the elements
that block us.
457
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,440
The idea that stealing is OK.
458
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:12,440
Corruption, of course.
459
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:15,400
It's incredible.
460
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:19,040
This factor can never be neglected!
461
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:21,560
{\an8}Shouldn't we all be fucking furious?
462
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:23,600
{\an8}Crazy? Revolting?
463
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,480
{\an8}At the moment when you realize
464
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:29,520
{\an8}what incapable and irresponsible leaders
we have?
465
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:21,480
You cannot just start building highways
however the hell you want,
466
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:25,080
because every politician wants
a highway in his district.
467
00:34:25,720 --> 00:34:28,200
I want it in Targu Jiu,
Dragnea wants it in Teleorman.
468
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:29,560
I went on Wikipedia,
469
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:33,280
otherwise, everybody says
"I built, and the others didn't".
470
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:36,280
The only years, after Ceausescu
and until now,
471
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:39,920
when more than 100 km were built,
were 2012 and '13.
472
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,840
I'm living over and over the same story.
473
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:47,120
Everything starts over and over,
when a new government is in place.
474
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:50,120
And, in Romania, new governments
appear really often.
475
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:52,400
{\an8}They're all just as guilty.
476
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:54,240
{\an8}When you become a prime minister,
477
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:56,280
I'm not accepting this explanation,
478
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:58,640
that you just wanted more research.
479
00:34:58,720 --> 00:35:01,000
No, you accepted to be a PM,
then do something!
480
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:05,160
{\an8}I was in China, as an officialof the Economic Commission,
481
00:35:05,240 --> 00:35:08,080
{\an8}at the invitationof the Chinese government.
482
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:09,520
{\an8}They looked us in the eye,
483
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,040
{\an8}and told us they can build,with their own investment,
484
00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:14,960
{\an8}2,000 km of highway per year.
485
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:17,600
{\an8}We almost fell out of our chairs!
486
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:22,400
{\an8}We thought we misunderstood.
487
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:25,200
{\an8}2,000 km… per year… with their money!
488
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:28,240
{\an8}Why aren't we allowing them?
489
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:31,280
{\an8}So instead of having to brakea thousand times in every village,
490
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:32,360
{\an8}and drive 50 km per hour,
491
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,800
{\an8}driving long enough to pickle vegetables,
492
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:38,560
{\an8}maybe one pays five leiat the entrance to the highway.
493
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:44,000
{\an8}But, are there investorsthat want to invest in such a project?
494
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:45,240
{\an8}Oh my God, yes!
495
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:47,440
{\an8}Loads!
496
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:51,600
{\an8}-So why isn't it being done?-Because you can't take bribes from them!
497
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:53,440
{\an8}That's why.
498
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:55,600
{\an8}You can't ask for bribes, right?
499
00:35:56,280 --> 00:36:00,480
{\an8}They won't do it.The Chinese wouldn't do it! Not really.
500
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:04,280
{\an8}It's really sad!
We're 30 years after the Revolution,
501
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:07,760
12 years after EU integration.
502
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:10,920
52 billion euro were invested
in the Romanian economy.
503
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:12,200
We're not lacking money.
504
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:14,720
{\an8}We're not missing the land.
505
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:18,480
{\an8}We're not lacking in materials,
labor force.
506
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:20,960
nor the intelligence we would need
for building highways.
507
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:28,000
ROMANIAN HEADS OF STATE
PRESIDENTS - PRIME-MINISTERS
508
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:31,000
THEY BUILT 737 KM OF HIGHWAY IN 30 YEARS
509
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:39,560
You go from Suceava to Timisoara
510
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:43,440
to work there, let's say, for four hours.
511
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:49,320
{\an8}You have to drive for twelve hours
on roads that are not safe.
512
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,600
{\an8}Drive there for one day,
come back another day,
513
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:52,760
and work for four hours.
514
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:56,200
By plane, I go in the morning,
come back in the evening,
515
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:57,200
as if I lived in Suceava.
516
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,680
It cost me over four million.
517
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:06,200
But, I noticed, from the moment
I could take better care of my business,
518
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:10,760
I covered the costs
and even made some profit.
519
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:13,960
At this time, though, in Romania,
520
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:22,040
there is no bigger obstacle
to the country's development
521
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,000
than the lack of infrastructure.
522
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:25,600
{\an8}Most people say,
523
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:29,880
{\an8}"you have beautiful buildings
and landscapes,
524
00:37:30,720 --> 00:37:32,960
the best wine and the best brandy,
525
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:35,000
but the roads… a disaster!"
526
00:37:35,720 --> 00:37:37,480
The roads let us all down.
527
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:40,240
That's that.
528
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:43,600
Nobody can develop, in Romania, nowadays--
529
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:45,160
I'm talking about companies--
530
00:37:45,240 --> 00:37:49,200
in the absence of highways
to connect the West to the East
531
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,240
and the North to the South.
532
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:53,840
{\an8}You suppose you get there…
533
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:56,880
{\an8}I have the feeling I live
in an isolated town, in Romania.
534
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:01,000
For example, I didn't open
any factories in my district
535
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:02,760
because it would be bad for business.
536
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:07,200
The is no road to profitably
transport my merchandise from here.
537
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:09,320
One thing is to have a driveron the road for six hours,
538
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,480
have him go back home to sleep,
539
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:15,760
and another to send himon a twelve hour route, till Timisoara,
540
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:19,040
pay per diem, housing,sleeping in the car or I don't know,
541
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:20,080
and then come back.
542
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:22,280
The costs for companies are very high,
543
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:26,480
especially transportation costs
and time for business.
544
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:30,000
And this reduces
the competitiveness of companies.
545
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:33,680
Also, foreign investments are discouraged
546
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:37,600
because of poor infrastructure.
547
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:41,000
And, if we're measuring
foreign investments,
548
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:42,160
in the past 30 years,
549
00:38:42,240 --> 00:38:45,720
compared to our GDP,
Romania is in last place in the EU.
550
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:50,400
{\an8}Many investments were lost for Romania
551
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:54,160
{\an8}the moment that locations were measured,
552
00:38:54,240 --> 00:38:58,160
and Romania lost investments
553
00:38:58,240 --> 00:39:01,520
even though it was attractive
in other aspects,
554
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:05,240
because of under-developed infrastructure.
555
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:08,840
Mercedes, Volkswagen, they gave up.
556
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:11,760
Viktor Orban, Hungary's Prime Minister,
says,
557
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:17,400
"I have an advantage over Romania,
because I have highways.
558
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:19,480
Romania doesn't."
559
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:24,120
BMW went 70 km away from Oradea,
into Hungary,
560
00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:28,160
even though Hungarian labor force
is 30% more expensive,
561
00:39:28,240 --> 00:39:31,080
if we think about the average net salary
per employee.
562
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:34,120
It's easy,
we're not trying to land on Mars.
563
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:35,560
We're not Americans.
564
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:36,760
We just want highways.
565
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:40,000
In Romania,
when someone dies in a car crash,
566
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:44,960
the damage costs 1,25 million euros
to record.
567
00:39:45,720 --> 00:39:50,680
Last year, in Romania, there were
more than 1,800 deaths in traffic.
568
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:55,000
Do the math, and the costs are huge!
569
00:39:55,080 --> 00:40:01,160
Over four billion,
the costs paid by all of us!
570
00:40:01,240 --> 00:40:04,480
{\an8}Many of the car accidents,
frontal car crashes,
571
00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:08,240
{\an8}accidents caused by irregular overruns,
572
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:11,360
could all be avoided, if we had highways.
573
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,120
Even for pedestrians.
574
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:16,080
If we're counting the villages
with high traffic,
575
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:20,560
high speed kills pedestrians, children.
576
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:22,000
If you would have a highway
577
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:27,400
to avoid this traffic passing
through villages,
578
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:29,320
many lives would be saved.
579
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:31,840
The lives of pedestrians, as well.
580
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:35,040
{\an8}We could never talk about
the number of crashes being zero.
581
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:38,760
{\an8}However, decreasing them depends directly
582
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:41,240
on building roads and highways,
583
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:43,560
and on improving the level of education.
584
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:51,280
In 2011, I was involved in a car crash
585
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:55,200
{\an8}that resulted in injuries and deaths.
586
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:58,840
I had a spinal cord injury,
587
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:03,560
my spine was fractured.
588
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:07,160
In the same accident,
my boyfriend lost his life.
589
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:11,840
{\an8}I think I asked
if I could still ski that season.
590
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:16,280
My therapist looked at me and said,
591
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:18,920
"Nobody told you anything?"
592
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:24,480
I broke the last two vertebraein the neck area.
593
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:29,280
Completely fractured…
and affected the marrow.
594
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:33,320
The consequences were
a complete paralysis from neck down.
595
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:38,320
After years of therapy,
I managed to regain the use of my arms.
596
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:40,800
{\an8}I had internal bleeding,
597
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,880
{\an8}pneumothorax, water in my lungs,
598
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:47,320
pelvic fracture,
599
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:49,640
clavicle fracture…
600
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:53,160
I can't even remember them all,there were so many.
601
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:55,160
Spine fracture.
602
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:58,520
That put me in the wheelchair.
603
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:03,840
{\an8}I am the victim and survivor
of a car crash.
604
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:07,360
{\an8}At the time of impact,
the car door jumped,
605
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:08,920
I jumped through the window,
606
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,400
at about 30 metersfrom the place of collision,
607
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:13,200
and I hit a parapet with my head.
608
00:42:15,240 --> 00:42:17,720
My father died, four days after the crash.
609
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:20,440
He had a heart attack,
because of the stress.
610
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:22,240
He was just gone…
611
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:25,400
I found out after three weeks
612
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:28,000
that my Dad was no longer there.
613
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:32,600
{\an8}I asked what was going on.
When is the anesthetic going to wear off?
614
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:35,640
{\an8}They told me there's no anesthetic.
615
00:42:35,720 --> 00:42:37,800
My spine broke, and I'll never walk again.
616
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:39,160
OK.
617
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:44,880
I think that, if our district road
would have been on EU level
618
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:48,080
or, if I were on a highway,
619
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:50,800
I wouldn't be in a wheelchair today.
620
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:58,280
The kids went out on their bikes
and David had an accident.
621
00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:04,320
I asked, "is he okay?" And they told me,
"they are trying to resuscitate him."
622
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:07,280
You see so many American movies
623
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:10,400
in which you transmit positive energies,
624
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:13,600
{\an8}you're there, near his bed and, somehow,
625
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:16,920
{\an8}you give him the will to live and…
626
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:23,920
We hoped we could get there
and give him the will to wake up.
627
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:27,320
I know we were in our car,
ready for a three hour drive.
628
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:30,680
Just three hours.
629
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:33,920
I didn't get there, to see him still alive
630
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:37,920
because in three hours by car in Romania…
631
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:39,520
you can't get anywhere.
632
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:49,640
Hello ladies and gentlemen,
633
00:43:49,720 --> 00:43:51,960
here are today's news!
634
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:56,200
The lack of roads and infrastructurein Romania claims more victims.
635
00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:59,800
A terrible accident,the most terrible of 2019,
636
00:43:59,880 --> 00:44:03,000
took place near Urziceni,and caused the death of ten people.
637
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:05,680
The traffic directionswere not separated by parapets.
638
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:07,880
A truck entered the opposite direction
639
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:09,920
ravaging a minibus full of passengers.
640
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,680
They were all commuters,on their way to work,
641
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:14,480
but death stopped them from getting there.
642
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:16,920
Seven ambulancesand several extrication cars
643
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:18,240
arrived at the scene.
644
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:21,120
When they saw the tragedy,even the experienced firefighters,
645
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:24,320
used to such tragedies on the roads,were terrified.
646
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:27,320
Ten people died.Eight women and the two drivers.
647
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:30,040
Of the survivorsof the devastating impact,
648
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:34,520
two women have fractured spines,and two others 5th degree spleen rupture.
649
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:37,000
The others experiencedsevere head traumas.
650
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:39,680
Six victims will be buried today.
651
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:43,040
Respects can be paid at the village churchin Munteni, Buzau.
652
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:46,600
As a consequence of the tragedy,fifteen kids have lost their parents.
653
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:18,480
Oh my Lord, why did you take her away
from her three children?
654
00:45:19,720 --> 00:45:22,400
Oh, my girl! Our princess!
655
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:25,000
Oh, my Lord!
656
00:46:12,240 --> 00:46:13,040
It's me.
657
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:23,480
Yes?
658
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:27,000
-Hello.
-Good day.
659
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:31,840
-Stefan!
-Adriana Petrut. Nice to meet you.
660
00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:35,200
A neighbor came
and knocked on the window.
661
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:38,520
I was living on the ground floor,
there, in Viisoara.
662
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:40,760
So the neighbor came
663
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:43,920
and he said, "Please come quickly,
the train hit the car!"
664
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:45,240
"What car?"
665
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:51,080
I was under the impression
that they had left half an hour before
666
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:54,440
and all this happened
in five minutes, tops.
667
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:56,920
So I said, "What car?"
668
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:01,280
"Your car. The train hit the kids
and pushed it far away."
669
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:04,600
I couldn't believe it.
670
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:09,960
I said, "Please, explain this to me.
My kids left a while ago!"
671
00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:15,120
"The train hit your car, and nobody knows
what happened to the kids.
672
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:16,840
Or how many are dead and how many alive…"
673
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:20,160
And I said, "Lord, you know what You did
and what You will do!"
674
00:47:20,240 --> 00:47:22,480
I couldn't do anything,
but didn't want to go there.
675
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:25,600
I called my husband's boss and told him,
676
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:28,680
"Please don't tell him now,
he's driving to work.
677
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:30,360
Don't tell him until he gets there."
678
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:33,840
When he got there, his boss said,
679
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:36,600
"Mitica, you wanted a car
and look what happened!
680
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:39,240
-What happened?
-The train hit your car."
681
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:42,440
That picture, in that corner
682
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:44,200
is the last photo taken of them,
683
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:49,040
not even half an hour before
they left home on the 1st of June.
684
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:51,120
-How many died?
-Five…
685
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:54,520
Four of ours, and another boy,
686
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:57,680
Rafael, from the village.
687
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:03,560
You cry, but you cry inside, in your soul.No one knows what's left there.
688
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:05,600
We can't show it on the outside.
689
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:09,920
What would I solve,if I cried on the street?
690
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:15,560
I have to go on with my life,take care of the family and everything.
691
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:17,160
Uphill…
692
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:19,600
Where are we going?
693
00:48:21,240 --> 00:48:23,080
-Where are we going?
-To the children.
694
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:28,080
-To see our children.
-To the children.
695
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:32,760
-To see our children.
-Yes, our children.
696
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:38,320
That day, it was the same. A rainy day.
697
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:43,720
Darius, 20.
698
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:48,720
Lavinia, she would have turned 19,
a week after the accident.
699
00:48:49,240 --> 00:48:51,080
Daria, almost 14.
700
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:53,320
And Cosmina, almost twelve.
701
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:57,240
We dug one grave for all of them.
702
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:00,040
It was done with an excavator.
703
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:03,040
-One grave?
-Yes, just one.
704
00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:06,280
4,7 meters by 2,3 meters.
705
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:09,480
I took a lot of pills in those times.
706
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:14,120
That week we took a lot
of antidepressants, from our doctor.
707
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:19,320
Pills to calm us down, and we were…
I don't know how to put it…floating…
708
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:26,080
We were aware of what just happened,
but we couldn't cry anymore.
709
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:29,080
We had a full house, a full table…
710
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:33,040
My two arms weren't enough
to hug them all, now one is too much.
711
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:36,680
It's not easy. Our soul…
nobody is ever going to see it.
712
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:43,720
My oldest daughter,
713
00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:47,080
preparing the 1st of June cake
and eating at home
714
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:52,120
said, "I want to visit grandma,
in Negrilesti, and bring her some cake."
715
00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:56,440
My oldest son said "I also want to go".
716
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:59,560
My third girl said,
"I'm going with them, as well".
717
00:49:59,880 --> 00:50:03,920
Talking to Rafael over Facebook,
or I don't know,
718
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:07,480
Darius told him
they are going to Negrilesti.
719
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:09,840
"Lavinia wants us to go."
720
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:14,760
So Rafael said "Can I go with you, too?"
721
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:16,600
I was with them, in the house.
722
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:19,680
And he said "yes, it's only us."
723
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:22,520
And Daria told Cosmina
"come with us, won't you?"
724
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:26,000
And Cosmina said she wants to stay
and help me put the curtains up.
725
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:27,280
I'd just washed them--
726
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:28,520
Cosmina also died?
727
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:30,360
Yes, the youngest
who died in the accident.
728
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:31,360
And she said she didn't want to go.
729
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:35,280
Yes, she wanted to help me
put up the curtains.
730
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:38,360
It was the Whitsuntide,
we were all at home,
731
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:40,720
and we cleaned the house.
732
00:50:41,720 --> 00:50:46,800
But Daria said "I want to go",
and she went as well.
733
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:51,920
It was all five of them and,
after 200-300 meters they were…
734
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:55,280
-Which direction were they coming from?
-That one.
735
00:50:55,440 --> 00:50:57,080
-So from the other side.
-Yes, that one.
736
00:50:57,680 --> 00:51:01,080
And, being on a bit of a slope,
737
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:03,840
the weeds were pretty tall.
738
00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:09,760
They had no visibility.
The weeds were from here to there.
739
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:14,440
There were people from TV that came
and, that day, they cut the weeds.
740
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:19,680
And they couldn't see the train,
it curves its way in.
741
00:51:21,240 --> 00:51:22,480
They were hit over there.
742
00:51:23,240 --> 00:51:25,880
So they were coming from there
and the train from over there?
743
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:27,200
Yes.
744
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:30,680
-And there were no signs?
-No, not these ones.
745
00:51:31,240 --> 00:51:34,480
They put them up last year, in November.
But they're not functional yet.
746
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:37,080
-The signs…
-Yes, because there were many complaints.
747
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:38,960
You see, there are crosses over there.
748
00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:42,000
One and a half years ago
four other young people died.
749
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:45,960
The train came from over there,
and threw them all from the taxi.
750
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:50,600
A girl from that car survived.
But the other four died.
751
00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:57,040
Ours were moved 'till the last chestnut,
over there.
752
00:51:57,760 --> 00:51:59,440
It's about 200 meters 'till there.
753
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:00,320
-That way?
-Yes.
754
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:16,880
-And you never saw the car?
-No, just passing by.
755
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:18,520
-But not from close.
-No.
756
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:25,840
It's there, somewhere.
757
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:43,640
It's there.
758
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:00,000
-This one?
-Yes.
759
00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:01,120
Oh, God!
760
00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:16,080
How could they still be alive? God!
761
00:54:53,720 --> 00:54:55,440
Oh, Lord!
762
00:54:57,120 --> 00:55:01,440
It's my first time seeing it like this.
It was just in passing before.
763
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:04,320
Oh, Lord!
764
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:13,880
Cosmina was here, in the trunk.
765
00:55:16,600 --> 00:55:17,680
Look, the blanket!
766
00:55:19,120 --> 00:55:20,520
Their blanket…
767
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:28,960
Look, the blanket. In the trunk.
768
00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:34,200
Lavinia put it there,
so that they wouldn't dirty the trunk.
769
00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:41,480
God. My dear…
770
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:49,400
That's it.
771
00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:56,880
You wonder how they stood there,
poor things.
772
00:55:58,480 --> 00:55:59,480
Look…
773
00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:04,200
When you see a train coming your way…
774
00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:06,880
I think they died
before they were hit, poor things.
775
00:56:07,560 --> 00:56:09,160
God. My dear…
776
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:16,320
Now I've seen where you died, my babies.
777
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:40,120
Isn't it absurd,
me going on about highways,
778
00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:44,080
when we don't even have proper signs
on the roads?
779
00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:47,520
And the train runs at 50 km an hour.
780
00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:50,160
Like the freight train in interwar times.
781
00:56:57,560 --> 00:57:00,320
The true victims, from my point of view,
782
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:02,320
are those left behind.
783
00:57:02,400 --> 00:57:04,320
The person who loses his life
784
00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:07,080
has lost everything, they're buried,
and that's it.
785
00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:10,440
But what about the children
that lose both their parents at once?
786
00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:12,520
The tragedy of car crashes
787
00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:16,520
could be compared to a yearly pandemic
788
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:19,680
or with the number of casualties of war.
789
00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:23,840
But, we are fighting a war
for over 30 years
790
00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:25,120
taking into account that,
791
00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:29,360
besides the 70 thousand deaths,
there are also collateral victims.
792
00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:32,560
This makes the number
at least ten times greater.
793
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:41,920
As a business person,
since you started your business,
794
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:44,160
do you have any idea
how many coffins you've sold?
795
00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:53,160
{\an8}Around 1,500-2,000 a year.
So, maybe 30-40 thousand in total.
796
00:57:53,240 --> 00:57:54,040
It's something.
797
00:57:58,080 --> 00:58:03,720
We are performing, in general,
around 1,500 autopsies a year,
798
00:58:04,400 --> 00:58:10,000
{\an8}out of which 25%, I believe,
are victims of car crashes.
799
00:58:12,640 --> 00:58:15,200
The moment when two cars hit,
800
00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:20,320
{\an8}the human body, to put it simply,
compresses.
801
00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:23,520
Like an accordion.
802
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:27,040
In the past 30 years since the Revolution,
803
00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:30,480
more than 70 thousand people
have died in car crashes.
804
00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:33,280
The population of a city like Calarasi.
805
00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:35,960
And four times more have been injured.
806
00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:40,720
As many as Suceava, Targu Jiu, Zalau,
Ploiesti, Braila put together.
807
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:43,040
WOUNDED - DEAD
808
00:58:44,120 --> 00:58:46,120
{\an8}When I would hear
the sound of an ambulance,
809
00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:48,920
{\an8}my heart would stop,
fearing it was heading towards my family.
810
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:51,680
I had to do something. Anything!
811
00:58:52,440 --> 00:58:55,240
If I'm not doing anything,
I don't have the right to complain.
812
00:58:56,880 --> 00:59:00,400
{\an8}I've found out about the papers
for our trays from typography.
813
00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:06,680
{\an8}Stefan had already ordered flyers with
"Romania wants highways!"
814
00:59:06,760 --> 00:59:09,240
{\an8}The marketing director
called me instantly,
815
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:11,400
{\an8}to convince me to convince Stefan
to give up,
816
00:59:11,480 --> 00:59:13,880
{\an8}because maybe I could persuade him better.
817
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:18,680
We tried to hamper Stefan, in a way,
818
00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:25,800
to involve the "Spartan" brand
in his personal project.
819
00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:30,400
{\an8}ROMANIA WANTS HIGHWAYS!
820
00:59:32,080 --> 00:59:36,320
{\an8}I ordered on my own accord,
without thinking about the consequences
821
00:59:36,400 --> 00:59:42,360
10 million posters with the message,
"Romania wants highways."
822
00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:45,200
I was shocked.
823
00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:49,280
{\an8}I tried to contact Stefan
as soon as possible.
824
00:59:49,360 --> 00:59:53,880
{\an8}To warn him that all these things
are going to turn against us.
825
00:59:54,480 --> 00:59:58,000
We'll face controls
and political consequences.
826
00:59:58,080 --> 00:59:58,960
I said it's not possible.
827
01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:01,800
{\an8}We're entering a political zone,
828
01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:06,160
{\an8}and there is the possibility
of facing consequences.
829
01:00:11,320 --> 01:00:14,040
In the summer of 2018, I had an idea.
830
01:00:14,880 --> 01:00:17,600
A general strike of all business people.
831
01:00:20,760 --> 01:00:23,440
{\an8}In September I started filming
for a campaign
832
01:00:23,520 --> 01:00:26,600
{\an8}to motivate other business people
to join me.
833
01:00:28,080 --> 01:00:32,160
A few days after we started,
I had to cancel the whole project,
834
01:00:32,720 --> 01:00:34,880
because my mother's health
suddenly deteriorated
835
01:00:34,960 --> 01:00:37,120
and she was admitted
to a hospital in Iasi.
836
01:00:39,440 --> 01:00:40,760
We immediately went there.
837
01:00:41,280 --> 01:00:45,080
I was with my brother in the car,
both stunned by fear.
838
01:00:46,680 --> 01:00:48,640
I'd known my mother was ill
since I was little.
839
01:00:48,720 --> 01:00:50,720
I could never explain
840
01:00:50,800 --> 01:00:53,920
how she kept fighting the disease
like a lioness--
841
01:00:54,680 --> 01:00:55,800
With a phenomenal force.
842
01:00:57,040 --> 01:00:58,840
I felt so helpless!
843
01:00:58,920 --> 01:01:02,080
Despair took over on the same damn road.
844
01:01:03,080 --> 01:01:05,960
Even though I was in terrible hurry
to reach the hospital,
845
01:01:06,160 --> 01:01:08,120
I had to drive, as always,
846
01:01:08,200 --> 01:01:11,720
throughout those 20 villages,
between pedestrians and tractors,
847
01:01:11,800 --> 01:01:14,920
paying attention not to hit someone,
or get stopped by the radar.
848
01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:16,800
Each minute lost on the road
849
01:01:16,880 --> 01:01:19,480
felt like a minute robbed
of my time with Mom.
850
01:01:24,680 --> 01:01:25,680
Stefan called me,
851
01:01:25,760 --> 01:01:29,600
{\an8}and believe me,
852
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:33,800
{\an8}I was really amazed by his demand.
853
01:01:35,440 --> 01:01:38,480
I've been practicing law for twenty years,
854
01:01:38,560 --> 01:01:41,240
but his demand took me by surprise.
855
01:01:41,320 --> 01:01:48,280
He wanted to find a way through which
he can sue every Romanian president,
856
01:01:50,040 --> 01:01:54,520
and all heads of government that,
from 1990 and until now,
857
01:01:54,600 --> 01:01:58,120
didn't build roads in Moldova.
858
01:01:58,200 --> 01:02:00,880
He was in his car, going towards Iasi.
859
01:02:00,960 --> 01:02:05,800
I asked for details
and pushed him to tell me why.
860
01:02:06,680 --> 01:02:11,600
He told me
he wants to sue all people listed above,
861
01:02:11,680 --> 01:02:14,480
because he cannot get to Iasi,
862
01:02:14,560 --> 01:02:18,720
where his mom was, unfortunately,
in a serious state.
863
01:02:19,640 --> 01:02:23,800
I couldn't tell if he was crying or not.
864
01:02:23,880 --> 01:02:26,560
But I felt so much despair in his voice,
as he said,
865
01:02:26,640 --> 01:02:29,920
"I need to get to my mother and I can't!
I just can't!"
866
01:02:31,000 --> 01:02:33,440
My mother died the next day.
867
01:02:35,840 --> 01:02:37,480
And with my mother in the coffin,
868
01:02:37,640 --> 01:02:39,720
I was returning
from Suceava on the same road.
869
01:02:40,920 --> 01:02:43,200
Because I was afraid that the car
we transported her with,
870
01:02:43,280 --> 01:02:45,800
could be hit by someone
coming from the opposite direction,
871
01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:46,960
we created a convoy:
872
01:02:47,680 --> 01:02:50,400
me in the front,
the car with my mother in the middle
873
01:02:51,160 --> 01:02:52,120
and my brother in the back.
874
01:02:55,840 --> 01:03:00,160
First winter holidays without Mom followed
and I couldn't recover from the shock.
875
01:03:07,960 --> 01:03:10,240
For months I couldn't shake
the terrible feeling
876
01:03:10,320 --> 01:03:12,280
on that last drive with her.
877
01:03:13,160 --> 01:03:14,760
I had reached the limit.
878
01:03:15,960 --> 01:03:17,880
There was no doubt in my mind.
879
01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:22,280
I knew what I had to do.
880
01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:29,200
CHAPTER 2: 15 MINUTES
881
01:03:37,040 --> 01:03:41,040
{\an8}The first meter of highway in Moldovawas not built by the state,
882
01:03:41,120 --> 01:03:42,920
{\an8}but by a businessman from Suceava.
883
01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:46,240
{\an8}The initiative of a businessman,in a national movement.
884
01:03:46,320 --> 01:03:48,560
They want highways,30 years after the Revolution.
885
01:03:48,640 --> 01:03:50,120
{\an8}The moment I saw the movie,
886
01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:51,840
{\an8}I watched it three timesin my car yesterday,
887
01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:53,480
{\an8}I said, "it has to be aired tonight!"
888
01:03:53,560 --> 01:03:55,640
{\an8}Let's quickly watch the movieand reach a conclusion.
889
01:03:55,720 --> 01:03:57,160
ROMANIA WANTS HIGHWAYS
890
01:03:57,840 --> 01:04:01,360
If you're a teacher, give 15 more minutesof recess to your students.
891
01:04:02,240 --> 01:04:04,920
If you're a mason,put the trowel down for 15 minutes.
892
01:04:05,960 --> 01:04:09,160
If you're driving,stop the car for 15 minutes.
893
01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:14,200
If you want to leave Romania,stay for 15 more minutes.
894
01:04:16,280 --> 01:04:18,960
I'm Stefan Mandachi. I'm not in politics.
895
01:04:19,040 --> 01:04:20,120
I'm not an activist.
896
01:04:20,200 --> 01:04:22,760
I don't belong to any organizationor movement.
897
01:04:24,440 --> 01:04:27,160
I'm Romanian. I live in Suceava.
898
01:04:27,240 --> 01:04:30,480
I'm a peasant from St. Ilie,with a Moldovan accent.
899
01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:36,920
As a businessman, I've drivenmore than 500 thousand kilometers.
900
01:04:37,520 --> 01:04:38,960
I even made a calculation.
901
01:04:39,520 --> 01:04:41,400
Because we have no highways,
902
01:04:41,480 --> 01:04:44,200
I've lost more than a year and a halfof my life behind the wheel.
903
01:04:46,360 --> 01:04:48,080
But that doesn't matter anymore!
904
01:04:48,160 --> 01:04:53,680
Starting December 1st, 2018I've been full of joy.
905
01:04:54,440 --> 01:04:58,240
That day, TV stations started announcingthat, finally,
906
01:04:58,320 --> 01:05:00,440
the highway towards Moldovais being built.
907
01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:05,200
The next day, I wanted to runand support the workers!
908
01:05:05,280 --> 01:05:07,360
But, let's not get ahead of ourselves.
909
01:05:07,440 --> 01:05:10,960
We had the New Years Eve Party,the Epiphany, Unification Day.
910
01:05:11,040 --> 01:05:14,160
We're not in China,we can't build 1,000 km per month.
911
01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:17,240
This time, I'm going to Bucharest
912
01:05:17,320 --> 01:05:19,320
to congratulate peopleon the construction site.
913
01:05:19,920 --> 01:05:23,360
Surely I'll seethousands of people happily working!
914
01:05:23,440 --> 01:05:27,920
Hundreds of cranes, bulldozers,excavators, trucks!
915
01:05:28,000 --> 01:05:31,080
I was so happy, that I forgaveall people that are to blame
916
01:05:31,160 --> 01:05:34,280
for the mayhem on the roadsin 15 years since I've had a license.
917
01:05:34,360 --> 01:05:35,920
Starting today,I'll forget that in Romania
918
01:05:36,000 --> 01:05:37,800
2,000 people diein car accidents every year.
919
01:05:37,880 --> 01:05:40,440
That is more than the victimsof the Revolution.
920
01:05:40,520 --> 01:05:42,560
We pretty much have a Revolutionevery year.
921
01:05:43,320 --> 01:05:47,160
Since '89, more than 60,000 peoplehave died in car accidents--
922
01:05:48,320 --> 01:05:50,080
The population of a city like Alba-Iulia.
923
01:05:50,800 --> 01:05:54,200
How many of those would have survivedif we would have had highways?
924
01:05:55,160 --> 01:05:56,800
I arrived in Falticeni. Nothing.
925
01:05:58,120 --> 01:05:59,800
Roman, Bacau. Nothing.
926
01:06:00,960 --> 01:06:02,280
Focsani? Zero
927
01:06:02,920 --> 01:06:03,800
Buzau. Nothing.
928
01:06:05,120 --> 01:06:06,040
Welcome to Bucharest!
929
01:06:06,680 --> 01:06:08,240
Nothing. But I'm not giving up!
930
01:06:08,360 --> 01:06:10,200
I'm going back on the alternate road.
931
01:06:10,920 --> 01:06:16,160
Braila, Galati, Vaslui, Iasi, Botosani.Nothing.
932
01:06:19,000 --> 01:06:20,800
I made it back alive to Suceava.
933
01:06:22,400 --> 01:06:25,600
I drove 1,000 km over more than 16 hours.
934
01:06:26,200 --> 01:06:29,040
Thousands of cars passed by me,at two-three meters distance.
935
01:06:29,120 --> 01:06:31,560
I went out an assexpecting to come home a horse.
936
01:06:33,760 --> 01:06:35,120
I am to blame, too!
937
01:06:35,200 --> 01:06:38,920
Me, and all Romaniansdriving on the side of disaster.
938
01:06:40,440 --> 01:06:44,320
Amazingly, we're quiet, indifferent.Maybe we like it here.
939
01:06:49,240 --> 01:06:52,680
If just one of my 500 employeesdidn't receive his paycheck,
940
01:06:53,320 --> 01:06:54,400
who would be to blame?
941
01:06:55,200 --> 01:06:56,040
Me.
942
01:06:57,640 --> 01:07:02,440
If, on the 25th of each month,my company is not paying full taxes,
943
01:07:02,520 --> 01:07:03,760
who's to blame?
944
01:07:04,480 --> 01:07:05,280
Me, again!
945
01:07:06,920 --> 01:07:11,080
But after 30 years we still don't havea single centimeter of highway in Moldova,
946
01:07:11,720 --> 01:07:12,920
is anyone held responsible?
947
01:07:15,200 --> 01:07:17,600
Because we're taken for fools,
948
01:07:18,680 --> 01:07:22,000
I have a challengefor Romanians all over the world.
949
01:07:23,760 --> 01:07:30,000
On the 15th of March, for 15 minutes,starting at 15:00,
950
01:07:31,480 --> 01:07:34,400
I'm suspending the activityof my 40 restaurants.
951
01:07:37,480 --> 01:07:39,280
Solidarity for the highways.
952
01:07:40,120 --> 01:07:42,840
Challenge just three peopleto suspend their activity.
953
01:07:43,600 --> 01:07:44,400
It's really easy!
954
01:07:45,840 --> 01:07:47,640
I'm challenging three entrepreneurs:
955
01:07:48,280 --> 01:07:52,400
Ion Tiriac, Gigi Becaliand Viorel Catarama.
956
01:07:55,000 --> 01:07:57,520
I'm just one person!But what if we were 1,000?
957
01:07:58,560 --> 01:08:00,600
What if we were one million?Or five million?
958
01:08:00,680 --> 01:08:03,840
I want a highway here, in Suceava,in Bucovina!
959
01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:06,560
Maybe you want onein the Apuseni mountains,
960
01:08:06,640 --> 01:08:09,760
in Maramures, Craiova, or Timisoara?
961
01:08:10,680 --> 01:08:15,360
As years go by, I'm afraid of getting oldand not seeing a highway in Moldova.
962
01:08:17,040 --> 01:08:19,920
So I built a meter of highway in Moldova.
963
01:08:26,040 --> 01:08:28,240
This is what a construction sitelooks like!
964
01:08:42,120 --> 01:08:45,000
{\an8}I present to you the first meterof highway in Moldova.
965
01:08:45,560 --> 01:08:47,440
Now, together with Putna and Voronet,
966
01:08:47,520 --> 01:08:51,040
I invite you to visit the first and onlymeter of highway in Suceava!
967
01:08:57,320 --> 01:08:58,520
15TH OF MARCH
968
01:08:58,600 --> 01:08:59,600
AT 15:00
969
01:08:59,680 --> 01:09:00,520
15 MINUTES
970
01:09:02,440 --> 01:09:05,040
ROMANIA WANTS HIGHWAYS
971
01:09:05,120 --> 01:09:06,360
So it can be done!
972
01:09:06,440 --> 01:09:11,800
For some, building a meter
or a kilometer of highway--
973
01:09:11,880 --> 01:09:14,800
besides the fact
that the cost is enormous--
974
01:09:14,880 --> 01:09:17,560
it's a sensational thing.
975
01:09:17,640 --> 01:09:23,200
It involves an extraordinary effort.
976
01:09:23,280 --> 01:09:24,080
No!
977
01:09:24,960 --> 01:09:28,560
For the first time in their lives,
many people saw
978
01:09:28,640 --> 01:09:32,280
what it meant to build
a meter of highway from A to B.
979
01:09:32,360 --> 01:09:36,840
From the day the news broke
that I'd built a meter of highway,
980
01:09:36,920 --> 01:09:39,720
I understood once and for all
that I was not alone.
981
01:09:39,800 --> 01:09:42,880
I'd never imagined what a powerful force
982
01:09:42,960 --> 01:09:45,000
could be unleashed
by one small piece of asphalt.
983
01:09:45,080 --> 01:09:48,040
{\an8}People from the town asked me
984
01:09:48,120 --> 01:09:54,680
{\an8}if I knew of any highway project
starting in Cumparatura village.
985
01:09:54,760 --> 01:10:00,480
I went and investigated.
The TV stations said we were against it.
986
01:10:00,560 --> 01:10:02,680
Under no circumstances!
987
01:10:02,760 --> 01:10:06,160
-Were you aware of what you were building?
-No.
988
01:10:06,240 --> 01:10:12,600
-We thought it was just pavement.
-Then we added something new, but yeah…
989
01:10:12,680 --> 01:10:16,240
We realized it was a highway
when we had to place…
990
01:10:17,920 --> 01:10:21,320
-The markings.
-The markings on the highway.
991
01:10:21,400 --> 01:10:24,440
{\an8}I watched the video grow organically,
and that he didn't ask for shares.
992
01:10:24,520 --> 01:10:27,640
{\an8}Then I saw it had
tens of thousand of views
993
01:10:27,720 --> 01:10:29,160
and thousands of shares.
994
01:10:29,240 --> 01:10:31,720
I said to myself,
the internet went crazy, I pressed "play".
995
01:10:31,800 --> 01:10:33,080
"Man, he's crazy," I thought.
996
01:10:33,160 --> 01:10:34,640
This guy started
and he's not going to stop!
997
01:10:34,720 --> 01:10:38,400
I saw it, just as I'm sure
millions of Romanians did.
998
01:10:38,480 --> 01:10:40,840
Some in Romania, others abroad.
999
01:10:40,920 --> 01:10:42,800
I repeat,
no one knew who Stefan Mandachi was
1000
01:10:42,880 --> 01:10:45,520
except for those of us
who were close to him.
1001
01:10:45,600 --> 01:10:47,760
{\an8}"Who's this guy?" I wrote on Facebook.
1002
01:10:47,840 --> 01:10:52,400
{\an8}I asked my friends in the Suceava,
Gura Humorului area.
1003
01:10:52,480 --> 01:10:55,600
"Do any of you know Stefan Mandachi"
I asked.
1004
01:10:55,680 --> 01:10:58,800
"Who's Mandachi and what does he want?
Who is he working for?
1005
01:10:58,880 --> 01:11:00,920
Does he want
to be a member of parliament?"
1006
01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:02,480
I checked
1007
01:11:03,720 --> 01:11:07,000
and found out all there was to know
about Stefan Mandachi.
1008
01:11:07,080 --> 01:11:10,240
Many people,
many friends from many cities,
1009
01:11:10,320 --> 01:11:14,000
{\an8}called to ask me about this protest.
1010
01:11:14,080 --> 01:11:16,480
{\an8}"What's happening in Bucovina?
Who is this Stefan?"
1011
01:11:16,560 --> 01:11:20,080
{\an8}A Romanian entrepreneur hasmade himself known on social networks.
1012
01:11:20,160 --> 01:11:23,800
A meter of highway on his own land!
1013
01:11:23,880 --> 01:11:24,920
A protest action
1014
01:11:25,000 --> 01:11:29,400
because the Romanian governmenthas built zero meters of highways.
1015
01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:38,760
{\an8}It was extremely cool and surprising
for someone from the area.
1016
01:11:38,840 --> 01:11:43,800
That area doesn't usually have a voice.
People don't fight for their rights.
1017
01:11:43,880 --> 01:11:46,760
People here are obedient.
They keep their heads down.
1018
01:11:47,400 --> 01:11:48,480
It's always been this way.
1019
01:11:48,560 --> 01:11:51,000
I liked the idea, it intrigued me.
1020
01:11:51,080 --> 01:11:53,960
I didn't understand what the goal was.
I still don't.
1021
01:11:54,520 --> 01:11:59,320
I suppose it's a manifesto for history.
For a sad period in our history.
1022
01:11:59,400 --> 01:12:00,760
{\an8}I had…
1023
01:12:01,840 --> 01:12:06,960
{\an8}doubts that you were hiding
political projects behind this.
1024
01:12:07,040 --> 01:12:07,920
I'm asking you:
1025
01:12:08,000 --> 01:12:12,800
Does this man, or the movementbehind him, have political potential?
1026
01:12:12,880 --> 01:12:15,280
Don't tell me you don't know!
1027
01:12:15,360 --> 01:12:16,600
The topic is chosen--
1028
01:12:16,680 --> 01:12:19,480
He wouldn't have hadso much media attention
1029
01:12:19,560 --> 01:12:20,680
without somebody behind him.
1030
01:12:20,760 --> 01:12:21,920
I agree with that part.
1031
01:12:22,480 --> 01:12:27,680
He can be a vector for a politicalmovement or whichever movement.
1032
01:12:27,760 --> 01:12:30,200
-As he seems to be very well put together.-True.
1033
01:12:31,120 --> 01:12:33,720
{\an8}We shouldn't be protesting fifteen,twenty minutes
1034
01:12:33,800 --> 01:12:35,520
{\an8}before we accomplish our objectives.
1035
01:12:38,080 --> 01:12:41,360
How do you leave Romania to the west,towards Hungary?
1036
01:12:41,440 --> 01:12:42,520
You can do it in Hungary.
1037
01:12:42,600 --> 01:12:44,040
{\an8}We were all frightened at the beginning.
1038
01:12:44,120 --> 01:12:50,000
{\an8}"What is Stefan doing?" He risked a lot,
in his position as a businessman.
1039
01:12:51,120 --> 01:12:54,240
He risked making many political enemies,
1040
01:12:54,320 --> 01:12:58,320
many who could get in the way
of his business.
1041
01:12:59,120 --> 01:13:02,080
He decided it's worth the risk,
or that he can't live this way.
1042
01:13:02,760 --> 01:13:04,560
I'll say it again, this is a good moment.
1043
01:13:04,640 --> 01:13:09,080
Because the consequences are that
we become aware, with this type of action.
1044
01:13:09,160 --> 01:13:10,520
It's an awakening.
1045
01:13:10,600 --> 01:13:14,640
The project was very small,
a meter of highway.
1046
01:13:15,440 --> 01:13:19,560
Especially because it was so small,
but done by one person,
1047
01:13:21,880 --> 01:13:24,480
it was like a distorting mirror,
1048
01:13:25,240 --> 01:13:31,240
showing the disaster
of road infrastructure in Romania
1049
01:13:31,800 --> 01:13:33,800
at its true dimensions, and beyond.
1050
01:13:34,600 --> 01:13:38,800
Somehow, you moved people
with the visual of that meter.
1051
01:13:38,880 --> 01:13:42,120
You moved them more than a meter.
You moved a million kilometres.
1052
01:13:42,840 --> 01:13:45,240
This kind of spectacular initiative
1053
01:13:45,320 --> 01:13:47,600
would have been spectacular
in any country in the world--
1054
01:13:47,680 --> 01:13:51,320
In Africa,
a continent with many poor countries,
1055
01:13:51,400 --> 01:13:54,880
where there might be more highways
than here--
1056
01:13:54,960 --> 01:13:57,480
the US, or wherever.
1057
01:13:57,560 --> 01:13:59,600
A meter of highway means nothing.
1058
01:14:00,280 --> 01:14:01,800
It's just a meter.
1059
01:14:01,880 --> 01:14:03,360
If I wanted to be cynical,
1060
01:14:05,240 --> 01:14:09,400
I can't even put
my car's front wheels on it.
1061
01:14:09,480 --> 01:14:11,280
It's a protest!
1062
01:14:12,240 --> 01:14:16,840
I could go on one meter of highway
because I'm only 68 centimeters wide.
1063
01:14:18,440 --> 01:14:21,160
It's a funny thing for Romania.
1064
01:14:22,040 --> 01:14:25,760
A crazy man came to teach a lesson
1065
01:14:25,840 --> 01:14:28,560
to a government
made up of hundreds of people.
1066
01:14:30,520 --> 01:14:32,160
{\an8}The feeling of unity is really high.
1067
01:14:34,840 --> 01:14:37,640
-I want a highway in Harlau!
-So do I!
1068
01:14:37,720 --> 01:14:39,960
"The masseuses
from an erotic club in Bucharest
1069
01:14:40,040 --> 01:14:41,920
join Stefan Mandachi's protest.
1070
01:14:42,000 --> 01:14:45,080
They invite their clients
to an extra 15 minutes free,
1071
01:14:45,160 --> 01:14:48,280
beginning at 15:00,
when they'll talk about highways,
1072
01:14:48,360 --> 01:14:50,760
or any other topic."
1073
01:14:51,880 --> 01:14:53,320
{\an8}Closer!
1074
01:15:01,920 --> 01:15:04,920
I want a highway here, in Suceava,
in Bucovina.
1075
01:15:05,000 --> 01:15:06,280
-So do I!
-So do I!
1076
01:15:06,360 --> 01:15:09,640
-I want highways in Moldova.
-So do I!
1077
01:15:09,720 --> 01:15:12,160
{\an8}-Romania wants highways.
-So do I!
1078
01:15:12,240 --> 01:15:14,680
-Moldova wants highways.
-So do I!
1079
01:15:14,760 --> 01:15:17,400
-Bucovina wants highways.
-So do I!
1080
01:15:17,480 --> 01:15:20,320
-Dorohoi wants highways.
-So do I!
1081
01:15:20,400 --> 01:15:23,160
-Botosani wants highways.
-So do I!
1082
01:15:23,240 --> 01:15:25,320
-So do I!
-So do I!
1083
01:15:25,400 --> 01:15:28,640
I want a highway here, in Suceava,
in Bucovina.
1084
01:15:28,720 --> 01:15:30,360
-So do I!
-So do I!
1085
01:15:30,440 --> 01:15:33,040
{\an8}-So do I!
-So do I!
1086
01:15:33,120 --> 01:15:35,560
{\an8}-Romania wants highways.
-So do I!
1087
01:15:36,240 --> 01:15:38,440
{\an8}My first thought, before knowing
what to say,
1088
01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:42,760
{\an8}the first thought in my head was,
"So do I! For sure."
1089
01:15:47,920 --> 01:15:51,520
Europa FM. We're on the same frequency!
1090
01:15:56,560 --> 01:16:01,640
Since Ceausescu fell we haven't managedto unite nationally behind one idea,
1091
01:16:01,720 --> 01:16:05,640
as simple or benign as it might have been.
1092
01:16:07,640 --> 01:16:11,320
"Biziday", with Moise Guran, on Europa FM.
1093
01:16:14,080 --> 01:16:18,560
Obviously, Stefan Mandachi, from Suceava,has called for a general strike.
1094
01:16:18,640 --> 01:16:22,520
"What kind of strike lasts 15 minutes?"skeptics have wondered.
1095
01:16:22,600 --> 01:16:27,160
"Who is this guy? Where did he come from?Maybe he's PSD," others have said.
1096
01:16:27,240 --> 01:16:28,960
"Maybe he's manipulating us."
1097
01:16:29,040 --> 01:16:30,800
{\an8}"It's pointless",
1098
01:16:30,880 --> 01:16:32,720
{\an8}most pessimistic Romanians have thought.
1099
01:16:33,360 --> 01:16:35,560
{\an8}No, nothing is truly pointless.
1100
01:16:35,640 --> 01:16:38,000
The most vocal of us,
1101
01:16:38,080 --> 01:16:40,600
those who dream of waking up one morning
1102
01:16:40,680 --> 01:16:43,200
rich, famous,with a Mercedes in front of their palace,
1103
01:16:43,760 --> 01:16:46,920
know that nothing in lifehappens overnight.
1104
01:16:47,000 --> 01:16:51,000
Everything is accumulated with patience,dedication,
1105
01:16:51,080 --> 01:16:52,600
and, especially, with strategy.
1106
01:16:54,480 --> 01:16:56,760
Even when 600,000 peopletook to the streets,
1107
01:16:56,840 --> 01:16:59,240
it didn't all happen at once.
1108
01:16:59,320 --> 01:17:01,000
This is how it went during the Revolution,as well.
1109
01:17:01,080 --> 01:17:02,960
On December 16th, in Timisoara,
1110
01:17:03,040 --> 01:17:06,160
{\an8}there were about 150 peoplearound László Tőkés.
1111
01:17:06,240 --> 01:17:08,720
{\an8}On the 21st,at the Intercontinental barricade,
1112
01:17:08,800 --> 01:17:10,920
there were not more than 200 people.
1113
01:17:11,000 --> 01:17:15,240
On December 22, 1989,yes, there were thousands.
1114
01:17:15,320 --> 01:17:19,880
But, on the 23rd, after Ceausescu ran,there were millions on the streets.
1115
01:17:19,960 --> 01:17:23,200
Romania was, de facto,on a general strike.
1116
01:17:23,280 --> 01:17:24,480
That is your private land?
1117
01:17:24,560 --> 01:17:27,720
History grants hero statusto those who succeed,
1118
01:17:27,800 --> 01:17:31,600
and labels those who fail as crazy.
1119
01:17:31,680 --> 01:17:34,560
Always, the many will follow the few.
1120
01:17:34,640 --> 01:17:35,880
-So do I!
-So do I!
1121
01:17:35,960 --> 01:17:39,040
Most people will say"I'll go, too" or "I'll do it, too",
1122
01:17:39,120 --> 01:17:41,640
if we're all doing it,if others are doing it.
1123
01:17:42,200 --> 01:17:46,400
But you can't reach everyonejust by snapping your fingers.
1124
01:17:47,560 --> 01:17:51,840
What we're going to experienceon March 15th, 2019, at 15:00
1125
01:17:51,920 --> 01:17:55,200
is an attempt to generate national unity.
1126
01:17:55,280 --> 01:17:56,960
{\an8}A symbolic strike, maybe.
1127
01:17:57,040 --> 01:18:00,600
{\an8}For now, yes, only for 15 minutes.
1128
01:18:00,680 --> 01:18:03,720
But, once national unity is created
1129
01:18:03,800 --> 01:18:08,000
around an idea, nothing will be overafter those 15 minutes.
1130
01:18:08,840 --> 01:18:10,160
It'll be just the beginning!
1131
01:18:53,680 --> 01:18:56,440
15TH MARCH - THE DAY OF THE PROTEST
1132
01:19:04,440 --> 01:19:06,360
1133
01:19:07,600 --> 01:19:10,520
{\an8}Concerning the protest
1134
01:19:10,600 --> 01:19:16,520
{\an8}taking place today, at 15:00,
1135
01:19:17,080 --> 01:19:21,000
{\an8}a protest for highways,
1136
01:19:22,400 --> 01:19:24,840
{\an8}I want protesters to know
1137
01:19:25,840 --> 01:19:27,560
{\an8}that I stand by them!
1138
01:19:28,720 --> 01:19:29,520
{\an8}So do I!
1139
01:19:30,280 --> 01:19:31,360
So do I!
1140
01:19:32,840 --> 01:19:34,000
How cool!
1141
01:19:34,080 --> 01:19:35,320
Have you seen Iohannis?
1142
01:19:35,400 --> 01:19:38,440
Yes, it's all over the media,
in only 20 minutes.
1143
01:19:38,520 --> 01:19:40,280
Right, it's old news!
1144
01:19:42,720 --> 01:19:44,840
I'm not a Iohannis fan, but he did well.
1145
01:19:44,920 --> 01:19:48,400
I think Tariceanu, or me,
or any sane person
1146
01:19:48,960 --> 01:19:52,320
would think it's a good message.
1147
01:19:52,400 --> 01:19:53,800
We need highways.
1148
01:19:53,880 --> 01:19:57,960
Big madness today with the first meterof highway in Moldova.
1149
01:19:58,040 --> 01:20:03,240
The whole country is paralyzedfor 15 minutes,
1150
01:20:03,320 --> 01:20:06,320
as a sign of supportfor the entrepreneur from Suceava.
1151
01:20:06,400 --> 01:20:12,400
The online movement "
has encompassed the entire population,
1152
01:20:12,480 --> 01:20:14,520
from school children, university students,teachers,
1153
01:20:14,600 --> 01:20:20,120
to erotic masseuses, multinationals,and, obviously, politicians.
1154
01:20:20,200 --> 01:20:21,720
{\an8}Some hot shots
1155
01:20:23,080 --> 01:20:25,720
{\an8}are building the first meter of highway.
1156
01:20:25,800 --> 01:20:29,760
To be perfectly honest,at 12:30 we inaugurated--
1157
01:20:29,840 --> 01:20:32,440
that is, we just started working
1158
01:20:32,520 --> 01:20:34,880
on the first kilometer of highwaysin Moldova.
1159
01:20:35,480 --> 01:20:36,480
The real ones.
1160
01:20:38,280 --> 01:20:39,760
Today, at 12:30.
1161
01:20:42,080 --> 01:20:43,080
They are mocking,
1162
01:20:43,760 --> 01:20:45,120
we are building highways.
1163
01:20:46,040 --> 01:20:48,520
They are shouting,we are developing Romania.
1164
01:20:48,600 --> 01:20:53,880
That businessman spent 100,000 Eurosfor this circus.
1165
01:20:54,480 --> 01:20:58,040
If he had this money anyway,he should have given it to an orphanage.
1166
01:20:58,120 --> 01:20:59,320
Donate it somewhere.
1167
01:20:59,400 --> 01:21:01,400
{\an8}Man, you're contesting a symbol.
Are you crazy?
1168
01:21:01,480 --> 01:21:05,960
{\an8}Someone who generated enthusiasm,
who created a movement
1169
01:21:06,040 --> 01:21:07,720
and such a public reaction.
1170
01:21:07,800 --> 01:21:13,200
{\an8}They created that diversion: "the works
have started on the Moldovan highway".
1171
01:21:13,280 --> 01:21:14,800
{\an8}A cheap diversion.
1172
01:21:14,880 --> 01:21:18,360
{\an8}Today, at 15:00 for 15 minutes,
1173
01:21:18,440 --> 01:21:22,920
{\an8}Romanians in the country and abroadare going to suspend their activities.
1174
01:21:23,000 --> 01:21:26,960
{\an8}-The message is clear.-"We need highways."
1175
01:21:48,920 --> 01:21:50,680
I was pessimistic in the movie
when I said,
1176
01:21:51,280 --> 01:21:56,960
"What if there were a million of us?
What if there were five million?"
1177
01:21:57,040 --> 01:22:00,680
99% of the feedback I've received
has been positive.
1178
01:22:01,600 --> 01:22:03,160
My ideal is to have a highway.
1179
01:22:03,240 --> 01:22:06,520
But it shouldn't be an ideal.
It should be a normal, decent thing.
1180
01:22:06,600 --> 01:22:08,720
We haven't gathered here
just to put on a show!
1181
01:22:09,760 --> 01:22:12,200
I would have preferred
that this one meter of highway
1182
01:22:12,280 --> 01:22:14,800
to have been built
by someone else, 20 years ago.
1183
01:22:15,560 --> 01:22:17,560
That there would be no need
for this manifesto.
1184
01:22:18,560 --> 01:22:20,040
It was a necessary thing.
1185
01:22:20,120 --> 01:22:22,440
I was desperate,
and I didn't know what else to do.
1186
01:22:22,520 --> 01:22:24,160
That I knew and that's why I did it!
1187
01:22:26,680 --> 01:22:29,360
-I feel that we're united!
-So do I!
1188
01:22:29,440 --> 01:22:33,160
-So do I!
-So do I!
1189
01:22:33,240 --> 01:22:36,440
Right at this momentthe big protest for highways has begun.
1190
01:22:36,520 --> 01:22:38,680
{\an8}If you want to buy products,
1191
01:22:38,760 --> 01:22:43,880
{\an8}please do it before 15:00 or after 15:15.
1192
01:22:44,560 --> 01:22:47,360
{\an8}It's 15:00, we're stopping work!
1193
01:23:11,520 --> 01:23:13,360
{\an8}
1194
01:23:14,760 --> 01:23:16,840
{\an8}ROMANIA WANT HIGHWAYS
1195
01:23:27,160 --> 01:23:28,480
{\an8}MOLDOVA WANTS HIGHWAYS
1196
01:23:30,320 --> 01:23:31,840
{\an8}-So do I!-So do I!
1197
01:23:31,920 --> 01:23:34,920
{\an8}-We want highways!-So do I!
1198
01:23:36,320 --> 01:23:38,400
{\an8}We showed them we're a force!
1199
01:23:38,480 --> 01:23:39,480
{\an8}We want highways!
1200
01:23:39,560 --> 01:23:40,960
{\an8}People are shouting they want highways!
1201
01:23:41,040 --> 01:23:42,320
{\an8}Thieves!
1202
01:23:44,280 --> 01:23:45,640
{\an8}-So do I!-So do I!
1203
01:23:46,680 --> 01:23:48,720
{\an8}
1204
01:23:57,400 --> 01:23:59,040
{\an8}We want highways!
1205
01:23:59,120 --> 01:24:00,120
{\an8}STRIKE FOR 15 MINUTES
1206
01:24:00,200 --> 01:24:05,000
We want highways!
1207
01:24:13,080 --> 01:24:16,200
{\an8}-Suceava wants highways!
-So do I!
1208
01:24:16,280 --> 01:24:20,440
-All the taxi drivers want highways!
-So do I!
1209
01:24:20,520 --> 01:24:23,280
-So do I!
-So do I!
1210
01:24:23,360 --> 01:24:26,280
-Moldova wants highways!
-So do I!
1211
01:24:27,240 --> 01:24:29,560
-Romania wants highways!
-So do I!
1212
01:24:29,640 --> 01:24:32,280
-Moldova wants highways!
-So do I!
1213
01:24:32,360 --> 01:24:35,400
-Romania wants highways!
-So do I!
1214
01:24:37,160 --> 01:24:39,480
-Moldova wants highways!
-So do I!
1215
01:24:39,560 --> 01:24:41,000
-So do I!
-So do I!.
1216
01:24:42,960 --> 01:24:44,720
-So do I!
-So do I!
1217
01:24:44,800 --> 01:24:46,640
We want it!
1218
01:24:46,720 --> 01:24:49,080
-Bucovina wants highways!
-So do I!
1219
01:24:49,160 --> 01:24:55,440
-So do I!
-So do I!
1220
01:24:56,520 --> 01:24:58,480
The protest in Suceavaunited the whole country.
1221
01:24:58,560 --> 01:24:59,880
Employees from hundreds of companies,
1222
01:24:59,960 --> 01:25:03,280
factories, construction sitesstopped for 15 minutes.
1223
01:25:03,360 --> 01:25:05,720
Thousands of people took to the streetsor stopped their cars
1224
01:25:05,800 --> 01:25:08,520
shouting they want highways,30 years after the Revolution.
1225
01:25:08,600 --> 01:25:10,080
It happened at 15:00,
1226
01:25:10,160 --> 01:25:14,080
and police reduced trafficonly after the protest was over.
1227
01:25:14,160 --> 01:25:17,200
{\an8}A short-term strike, only 15 minutes long,
1228
01:25:17,280 --> 01:25:21,440
{\an8}sent a message to politicians,regardless of their political leanings.
1229
01:25:21,520 --> 01:25:23,080
{\an8}The country needs highways,
1230
01:25:23,160 --> 01:25:26,120
{\an8}not promises, projects, or studiesworth millions of euro.
1231
01:25:26,200 --> 01:25:28,360
{\an8}In front of the Parliament,protesters blocked traffic,
1232
01:25:28,440 --> 01:25:30,720
{\an8}while students built a human highway.
1233
01:25:30,800 --> 01:25:33,520
{\an8}The protest "
spread throughout the country.
1234
01:25:33,600 --> 01:25:34,880
{\an8}Tens of thousand of Romanians,
1235
01:25:34,960 --> 01:25:38,880
{\an8}fed up with bad roads,united in an unprecedented initiative.
1236
01:25:38,960 --> 01:25:41,200
We stopped the bus
1237
01:25:41,760 --> 01:25:47,440
and, together with the team, we got off,we parked for 15 minutes.
1238
01:25:48,040 --> 01:25:50,680
I was also there. Nobody got mad.
1239
01:25:51,640 --> 01:25:54,520
Not the drivers, not the police,
not the protesters.
1240
01:25:54,600 --> 01:25:59,680
Even if Anastasie Panu Blvd.
was blocked for 15 minutes.
1241
01:26:00,400 --> 01:26:05,440
There were young people, old people
intellectuals, workers,
1242
01:26:06,200 --> 01:26:08,680
all kind of people,
all out there on the street together.
1243
01:26:08,760 --> 01:26:10,720
Drivers and people without a license.
1244
01:26:10,800 --> 01:26:16,560
I was on Focsani's betting ring,
and stopped for 15 minutes.
1245
01:26:16,640 --> 01:26:21,200
In front of me, there was a small truck,
the driver got out of his car
1246
01:26:21,280 --> 01:26:22,480
and he filmed me.
1247
01:26:22,560 --> 01:26:23,640
"I'm protesting," I said.
1248
01:26:23,720 --> 01:26:29,080
The driver to my right asked me,
"What are you doing, Mr. Minister?"
1249
01:26:29,160 --> 01:26:32,840
"If we had a highway, I wouldn't be here.
1250
01:26:32,920 --> 01:26:34,800
We'd be traveling
under normal conditions."
1251
01:26:34,880 --> 01:26:37,800
I did it gladly.
1252
01:26:38,520 --> 01:26:41,360
It was an act of solidarity.
1253
01:26:41,440 --> 01:26:44,480
Not only yours, mine, or someone else's,
1254
01:26:44,560 --> 01:26:46,680
but for all those in traffic
1255
01:26:46,760 --> 01:26:49,920
that feel the urgent need
1256
01:26:50,000 --> 01:26:53,920
for functional and safe infrastructure.
1257
01:26:54,600 --> 01:26:59,880
{\an8}I had a meeting with my Ph.D. students,
at 15:00,
1258
01:27:00,480 --> 01:27:05,280
and I said "we're all going to be silent
'till 15:15".
1259
01:27:06,080 --> 01:27:11,000
{\an8}I protested, with hundreds of my fellow
policemen, from all over the country.
1260
01:27:11,080 --> 01:27:13,680
We stopped our activities,
just as planned.
1261
01:27:13,760 --> 01:27:16,160
What if someone came to ask for a coffin?
1262
01:27:17,440 --> 01:27:21,160
In 15 minutes,
no one is going to die or be resurrected.
1263
01:27:21,920 --> 01:27:27,760
{\an8}The girls told them, "we're sorry,
but we've suspended activity!
1264
01:27:27,840 --> 01:27:29,200
Sorry for the inconvenience,
1265
01:27:29,280 --> 01:27:31,920
but we're supporting
Stefan Mandachi's protest!"
1266
01:27:32,000 --> 01:27:34,360
The social impact was huge, my friend!
1267
01:27:35,120 --> 01:27:39,720
At the national level,
five people knew you before,
1268
01:27:40,320 --> 01:27:42,600
and now you're a national symbol!
That's hard to do!
1269
01:27:42,680 --> 01:27:46,200
{\an8}This crazy man is really crazy.
He's certainly not normal!
1270
01:27:47,720 --> 01:27:51,480
{\an8}I don't think he was expecting
the success he had with this campaign.
1271
01:27:51,560 --> 01:27:53,400
I guess no one was.
1272
01:27:53,480 --> 01:27:56,600
I'm 38 years old and I can't recall
1273
01:27:56,680 --> 01:28:01,960
a protest of this kind,
initiated by one person,
1274
01:28:02,040 --> 01:28:07,760
that has had the impact
this protest has had.
1275
01:28:08,560 --> 01:28:13,080
The story for Euronews was a big success,
all around the globe.
1276
01:28:13,160 --> 01:28:17,800
I think that, deep inside,
everybody supported the protest.
1277
01:28:17,880 --> 01:28:20,880
The symbol has worked up till now.
1278
01:28:22,040 --> 01:28:26,760
But on a political level,
nothing has changed yet.
1279
01:28:26,840 --> 01:28:29,560
I even saw negative political reactions.
1280
01:28:29,640 --> 01:28:31,520
"Give us a break with these things…"
1281
01:28:31,600 --> 01:28:36,160
There was a lot of attention
for this meter of highway,
1282
01:28:36,680 --> 01:28:38,080
but nothing happened afterwards.
1283
01:28:38,160 --> 01:28:39,360
That is our problem!
1284
01:28:39,440 --> 01:28:40,800
Nothing ever happens!
1285
01:28:40,880 --> 01:28:43,680
You came to an area
where there was no legal conflict,
1286
01:28:43,760 --> 01:28:48,360
no fight with authorities,
1287
01:28:48,440 --> 01:28:51,160
you just came to say,
"good people, that's enough!"
1288
01:28:51,240 --> 01:28:55,320
"I see you're not doing anything,
and you're paid for nothing,
1289
01:28:55,400 --> 01:29:00,880
I see you're paid by me,
from my salary and from my taxes,
1290
01:29:00,960 --> 01:29:03,880
and I see you're not doing your job."
1291
01:29:03,960 --> 01:29:07,280
This is what Stefan's message transmitted.
1292
01:29:07,360 --> 01:29:09,040
Besides the fact that we want highways.
1293
01:29:09,120 --> 01:29:12,120
"Yes, we want them,
but we see you're not building them!"
1294
01:29:24,280 --> 01:29:28,800
{\an8}Your gesture increased the attentionfor the topic
1295
01:29:28,880 --> 01:29:33,160
and put pressure
on any government Romania could have.
1296
01:29:42,920 --> 01:29:46,360
It's an example that,when you say what you think
1297
01:29:46,440 --> 01:29:48,520
and you do it clearly and thoroughly,
1298
01:29:48,600 --> 01:29:50,720
{\an8}you find others who think alike.
1299
01:29:50,800 --> 01:29:52,680
{\an8}That's this country's drama.
1300
01:29:52,760 --> 01:29:55,720
{\an8}There are many Romanians who think alike,
1301
01:29:55,800 --> 01:30:01,800
but we all think we are alone,
and that we can't cause change.
1302
01:30:01,880 --> 01:30:03,480
ONE METER OF HIGHWAY
1303
01:30:23,960 --> 01:30:30,440
I'm afraid humankind will find
another method of transportation,
1304
01:30:30,520 --> 01:30:31,720
maybe air travel,
1305
01:30:32,680 --> 01:30:36,160
and they won't need highways
by the time Romania has highways.
1306
01:30:37,840 --> 01:30:40,800
{\an8}ONE YEAR LATER
1307
01:31:52,880 --> 01:31:57,240
I wonder if this man also shouted
that he wanted highways.
1308
01:32:00,320 --> 01:32:02,200
Almost a year has passed
since the protest.
1309
01:32:03,800 --> 01:32:04,600
Nothing,
1310
01:32:05,240 --> 01:32:06,840
absolutely nothing, has changed.
1311
01:32:07,360 --> 01:32:08,920
It's clearer to me every day:
1312
01:32:09,000 --> 01:32:12,240
if there's only a handful of people
struggling to change something,
1313
01:32:12,840 --> 01:32:15,920
and the others are standing
on the sidelines judging,
1314
01:32:16,680 --> 01:32:18,200
not much can be changed.
1315
01:32:18,880 --> 01:32:21,440
And we will be left
with just one meter of highway.
1316
01:32:22,120 --> 01:32:23,320
This is who we are!
1317
01:32:23,400 --> 01:32:26,880
We burn and go out quickly.
1318
01:32:29,720 --> 01:32:32,080
Many people tell me
to mind my own business.
1319
01:32:33,240 --> 01:32:34,480
But one thing I know for sure:
1320
01:32:35,440 --> 01:32:37,600
I will continue to follow my path.
1321
01:32:39,040 --> 01:32:40,960
For many, one meter might seem too much,
1322
01:32:41,720 --> 01:32:45,240
but if we would all take one small step,
1323
01:32:45,320 --> 01:32:46,720
everything will change.
108299
Can't find what you're looking for?
Get subtitles in any language from opensubtitles.com, and translate them here.