I remember like now that I have seen such an old man, dressed in folk costume, in a hot Sunday of July 1987, in a village near Gura Humorului. Was lunchtime and he returned from church, from liturgy. In Wallachia, from where I was coming, no longer sees such peasants. The long hair and beards were not explicitly banned under the communist regime, but every man had to have a look common as possible, to not stand out. "The new man", whether peasant or worker, young or old, had to be shaved and with the hair short cut, not to remind in any way about the "bourgeois-landlord" past.
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