Soon after the fall of the Ceaușescu government, the Romanian Academy decided to reintroduce â from 1993 onward, by canceling the effects of the 1953 spelling reform and essentially reverting to the 1904 rules (with some differences). The move was publicly justified as the rectification either of a Communist assault on tradition, or of a Soviet influence on the Romanian culture, and as a return to a traditional spelling that bears the mark of the language's Latin origin.[9][10][11] The political context at the time, however, was that the Romanian Academy was largely regarded as a Communist and corrupt institution — Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena had been its honored members, and membership had been controlled by the Communist Party.[12] As such, the 1993 spelling reform was seen as an attempt of the Academy to break with its Communist past.[13][14] The Academy invited the national community of linguists as well as foreign linguists specialized in Romanian to discuss the problem;[15] when these overwhelmingly opposed the spelling reform in vehement terms, their position was explicitly dismissed as being too scientific.
