Romania, 22.12.1989 (source: flickr.com)

2009 marks the 20th century of the collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe. On this occasion, historians from post-communist countries meet at a series of discussions to debate and analyze the experiences of the past and the post-communist present.

Scholars from Romania and Poland met on Thursday at the Warsaw City House of Encounters with History to go twenty years back in time, discuss the bloody events of 1989 in Romania and compare them with Poland's less violent way out of communism.

Click on the audio icon to listen to the report by Agnieszka Bielawska.