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Was Romania safe for foreign visitors under Ceausescu time?

It happened to a friend of mine in 2008, I remember it vividly.   Yes, travelling in Eastern Europe was safer during communism, as police kept a tight grip on society  

Well, maybe not until 2010, but until 2000, and it was probably safer there under the communists, than in 1990 years? I traveled to Croatia alone in 2006, via Hungary and Bosnia, but those were more peaceful times Generally, during the communist era, Poles would travel to Bulgaria in 3-4 cars for holidays- it was safer at all. And it worked the same way the other way around. If a Bulgarian/Rumunian person were traveling alone to Poland in 1995 and don`t know its realities, they might have had problems with the police or other dangerous, for example. 

This happened until 2010s, travellers were hijacked by criminals impersonating Bulgarian policemen; felt like Wild West    Tbh, if heywoody travelled through Romania, I'd pull the same stunt nowadays 

Agree; that's the key concept to depict life in Romania 1990s: insecurity. In Bucharest you couldn't go out after nightfall without risking being mugged. I never saw a police car in my neighbourhood during the '90s