Diplomacy and Propaganda. The Attitude of the Romanian Authorities Towards the Screening of the Nadia Film at the Cannes Festival

In the Socialist Republic of Romania, propaganda was a means of legitimizing and supporting the national-communist regime, inclusively abroad. Foreign policy represented the continuation and, to some extent, the very mirror of the internal policy of Nicolae Ceaușescu's Romania. Starting from the use of some previously unpublished diplomatic documents, this article aims to highlight the manner in which the abusive interference of politics affected, not at all superficially, even Romanian sports. Moreover, the attitude of the Romanian authorities regarding the analyzed episode clearly highlights the concern and despair of the regime, whose internal popularity gradually and irreversibly eroded in the 1980s.

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