 "Pindar and Eminescu's Idea of the Motherland").On the night of December 21, 1989, the poet Ioan Alexandru held up a cross and an icon of Jesus Christ among soldiers, injured people and participants to the manifestation against Ceaușescu's regime in Bucharest, from the square "Piața Romană" to the "University Square".His unique act that December night 1989, in the whole communist bloc, his courage, his resistance under the communist regime and his Christian testimony, all these things proved his courage during the atheist-communist regime.