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Romanian
Etymology
From post- + decembrist, referring to the Romanian revolution of December 1989. Attested as early as the spring of 1990.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌpost.de.t͡ʃemˈbrist/
- Rhymes: -ist
- Hyphenation: post‧de‧cem‧brist
Adjective
postdecembrist m or n (feminine singular postdecembristă, masculine plural postdecembriști, feminine and neuter plural postdecembriste)
- (of Romanian matters) postcommunist
1990 March, Ion Bogdan Lefter, “Cot la cot cu contemporanii mei [Together with my contemporaries]”, Întrebări la ordinea zilei [Questions of actuality], in Ramuri, number 309, Craiova, page 6:Lunile „postdecembriste“ au activizat conștiința socială și politică a tuturor, într-o varietate largă de reacții […]- The “post-Decembrist” months have activated everyone’s social and political conscience, in a great variety of reactions
2001, Cristian Preda, Tranziție, liberalism și națiune [Transition, liberalism and nation], Bucharest: Nemira, →ISBN, page 157:Al doilea clișeu postdecembrist sugerează că dificultatea care apasă pe umerii noștri poate fi îmblânzită — în drumul către un regim democratic și către libertatea pieței — prin recursul la unele modele, cel mai frecvent invocate fiind cel al țărilor din Asia de Sud-Est sau cel al țărilor scandinave.- The second postcommunist cliché suggests that the burden pressing on our shoulders can be eased—on the way to a democratic regime and market freedom—by using certain models, that of South East Asian or Scandinavian countries being the most frequently cited.
2015 December, Georgeta Moarcăs, “Destructurarea satului transilvănean în proza lui Alexandru Vlad”, in Vatra, year 45, number 12, Târgu-Mureș, →ISSN, page 68:Tema modernizării rămâne una dintre obsesiile centrale ale societății românești postdecembriste, îmbogățită acum cu ideea obligativității avantajului personal.- The theme of modernisation remains one of the central obsessions of Romanian postcommunist society, now strengthened with the idea of mandatory achievement of personal gain.
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