The story of backhander
June 2, 1935
"Last autumn, in a train car passing through Poland, they were talking about Romania as: "the country of baksheesh - baksheesh". As humiliating as it might have been, I did not find it too harsh. The one who had used it was well informed, from the Polish and German press..."
Mircea Eliade, Roumain, rumenian, rumane, rumeno, in Romanian Prophetism. Vol. II. Romania in Eternity, Bucharest, Roza Vānturilor Publishing House, 1990, pp. 92-94
June 17, 2005, 4:44 pm
Romanians chatting...
"Well then...let me tell you. Father had an operation in a famous Bucharest hospital and everything reached about 20 million lei. I cannot afford giving the doctors' names, because he must have further check-ups, but it's sure they don't even look at you in the hospitals if you do not "raise". That's how it is..."
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