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One Day in the Life of Ion Denisescu

When I started writing about the national meltdown in Romania, I didn’t expect censorship to hit so close. Welcome to Europe’s DSA hell.

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Stéphane Luçon
May 22, 2025
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My name isn’t Ion Denisescu. It’s not even the Russian version of it, Ivan Denisovich.

My name is Stéphane Luçon, and I’m a Frenchman living in Romania. Unlike Solzhenitsyn’s hero, I don’t live in a gulag, and Europe isn’t the Soviet Union. But you don’t reach perfect totalitarianism overnight. If those who see the signs don’t speak up, it advances step …

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