University Square
Central square of 1989 barricades and 1990 protests, marked by stone memorial crosses.
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This guide to University Square in Bucharest follows Marian Munteanu, a student leader on a faculty balcony in June nineteen ninety, and the spring occupation that put him there. It reaches back to the barricades of December nineteen eighty-nine, and to the insult protesters turned into an anthem. Best heard standing by the stone crosses in the middle of the square.
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