

It is a post-communist context that the Polish political thinker Leszek Kołakowski (the “philosopher of Solidarity”) saw disturbed by tenacious Leninist legacies, which he called – referring to the transformation of the old elites and the persistence of ideological and cultural relics of the old regime – “moving ruins”. The University Square phenomenon was born in this climate of post-revolutionary uncertainty. This perspective may explain both the violent end of dynastic communism and the spasmodic birth of the regime that followed. If we accept the concept of “post-totalitarianism” -as formulated by Václav Havel (The Power of the Powerless), Ágnes Heller, Ferenc Fehér, and György Márkus (The Dictatorship of Needs) -as a phase of the decomposition of communist regimes in the former Soviet bloc, then Romania was the exception, insofar as the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu symbolized the radicalization of the political system. Of all the countries covered by the revolution in 1989, Romania was distinguished by the degree of persistence of certain neo-authoritarian mental, institutional and political forms that were perpetuated after the disappearance of totalitarianism.
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In the 19th century, it was brutally interrupted by the establishment of a series of right (1938–1944) and left (1945–1989) dictatorships. In Romania, the post-communist transition was hampered by the fragility of the democratic tradition, which, although dated from the second half of the century. These results indicate that investing in production of local substrates would be viable and environmentally and economically profitable, and thus helping avoid dependency on unsustainable products and foreign markets and companies, while increasing productivity and competitiveness in nurseries.Georgiana Marcu on University Square as our place of remembrance: In agronomic terms, the mixtures need to be adjusted for optimising tree growing and longer-term studies should be promoted. During composting, nitrification processes were encouraged, producing slight natural acidification in the compounds. The characterisation of the raw materials permitted selection which, once composted, were transformed into compounds suitable for use as substrates. Additionally, Belloch Forestal was invited to present it at the ROSEWOOD European seminar in January this year. Finally, the activities were disseminated through visits, the company’s website and presentations at conferences.

The process led to the characterisation of different raw materials (organic by-products), after which selection of these raw materials were composted and studied in an outdoor plant, while further environmental and economic studies were also carried out. This operational group, promoted and coordinated by Belloch Forestal SL, has worked jointly to develop local substrates for plant production to this end, the technical, economic and environmental viability of the process for obtaining these substrates was determined.
