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A close examination of the reparation decree-laws and laws enacted in Romania from December 1989 to December 2024 shows that successive post-communist governments had to reckon with multiple, layered recent pasts, not just one. The temporal order in which five victim groups were compensated for their past suffering introduced an implicit recognition of some victims that prioritised present political objectives over the nature of the gruesome past. A preference for corrective rather than transformative reckoning explains why the reparation programme overlooked the 500-year-long Roma slavery.
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