Le vrai tour du communisme

Our tour guide Elena was exceptional! She was very knowledgeable and gave a great tour. Don't miss this one if you can book with her.

This tour was so good. Our guide Elana was passionate about her country and very knowledgeable. I don't think there could be a better walking tour experience. It gave me an appreciation for Romania and I will be interested to see how the country moves forward in the future.

Elena was fantastic really enjoyed learning about the important history of communism in Romania. She explained all the significant details about all the buildings and monuments. She spoke very well and held the interest of everyone. Highly recommend Elena has a guide.

This 3.5 hour historic walking tour of Bucharest and communism was excellent. We met at the Patrichal Cathedral and ended at a memorial. Our guide was Elena and she was truly fantastic and made this one of the best tours I’ve been on - a very informative and also entertaining/humorous guide. She gave it a personal touch with family stories and sharing her experience of growing up. This is a must do tour for anyone visiting Bucharest.

Elena was superb. She has so much charisma and a beautiful style of teaching. I would happily attend any tour that she is giving.

Our guide, Elena, was an excellent tour guide. She was informative, interesting, funny, and paced the tour very well. I highly recommend her.

John and Mihail made meeting easy. John was guide very friendly and knowledgeable and gave a fantastic tour. Highly recommend for all nationalities

An engaging walking tour geared toward western audiences with little knowledge of post-war Eastern bloc dynamics. Born into the 1980s, and with a background in puppeteering, the guide gives a compelling personal account of hardships experienced during the last gasp of the Ceausescau era. The tour proceeds with playful humour and anecdote. Light on intellectual rigour, the historical retelling is spotted with conceptual inconsistencies. While the delivery is engaging, the account acts as an ideological overcorrection, flattening complexities of Soviet power and policy. The tour readily offers up communism’s litany of failings, but brushes easily over what is nonetheless acknowledged as a period of progress and stability. At the same time, Romania’s fascist past is left conveniently oblique. The tour elides the nation’s independent incubation of the Iron Guard and subsequent close-knit Nazi ties which ended only with the Red Army’s encroachment. Those already subscribed to a western narrative of Cold War politics will likely come away satisfied but with their worldview unchallenged.

Excellent. Informative, entertaining and of course, sobering. Elena was brilliant.

As independent travellers we found Elena's tour fascinating and she was the very best tour guide. She was informative, considerate, so interesting and lively with a good sense of humor. She was on a mission to portray Bucharest's history and suffering and heroism and resilience and she succeeded in every way and is a great representative for her country. Multumesc, cara Elena 🙏