Edited sentence: In nearly all towns, and even many villages of the country the main avenues have been disfigured by ugly concrete constructions.Last but not least, the harsh persecution that hit most of the intellectuals and elite of Romania nearly destroyed the creation and developpement capabilities of the country.Many architectural masterpieces have been destroyed or damaged only because it represented a past that communists wanted to forget.No reconstruction of the lost heritage has been undertaken since December 1989.The impact on cultural heritage has been huge and Romania has lost large touristic and cultural assets for ever.This loss of the educated and cultured class has mortgaged for several generations the country's future.Those who escaped death penalty or 15 years jail penalty, as it was common in the 1950 for all "class enemy", either left the country definitely or lost completely their influence on the romanian society, usually being forbidden to practice their profession for 15 to 20 years.Using the seismic damages after 1940 and 1977 earthquakes as an abusive pretext, hundred thousands of houses and remarkable buildings have been wiped out without any other consideration that political aims (particularly the  Systematization of Ceaucescu)