Săptămîna

Săptămîna (The Week in Romanian) was a newspaper published in the Socialist Republic of Romania focusing on Bucharest's cultural scene.

[1] In a September 5, 1980 article entitled "Ideals", Corneliu Vadim Tudor presented the first anti-semitic view published in Romania after World War II.

While protests over the issue were voiced from Israel and other external Jewish circles, the official response was that they were printed abroad and shipped by Romanian-Italian businessman Iosif Constantin Drăgan, who was alleged to have some links to Săptămîna.

Nevertheless, it is alleged that the whole antisemitic incident was sparked by Ceaușescu's anger over the Jewish lobby which tried to tie the US Most favoured nation clause to the freedom to emigrate to Israel, something which was misunderstood by the sycophants at Săptămîna.

[5] After 1989, the two former editors of Săptămîna, Eugen Barbu and Corneliu Vadim Tudor became associates in a newspaper called România Mare, which exposed extreme nationalist views.