Communists and nostalgics in Romania, who are they ?
I am writing to you from ex-Yugoslavia where many people look back at Tito's system with nostalgia. Yugoslavia was not Communist Romania: not totalitarian (still a one party system though), much less aligned on the USSR, more individual freedoms, freedom of travel, "strong" passport, imports from the West, (relative) economic prosperity, at least up until its collapse... I guess it can be said that people had it better here until the late 80s than the average Romanian citizen at the same time (I was very surprised to hear that in the past Yugoslavs would consider Romanians as poor, cheap workforce would come to work in construction in Yugoslavia for higher wages...)
Yugonostalgics here can be of many different types: retired russophiles with a "tankie" worldview, other retired people but with Orthodox Christianism and Serbian nationalism as their main motivation (they are nostalgic of Belgrade ruling over the rest of the region), urban Bosniaks and non-practising Muslims (they first got recognized as a significant minority under Tito), young socialists / left wing voters with an inclination for social justice and minority rights, artists and university intellectuals...
I am wondering who is the average "Communostalgic" in Romania. I have met Russian and Ukrainian people but never heard any of them utter anything positive about the past system their countries lived under (for obvious reasons, I mean, totalitarianism doesn't sound much fun) and they usually tend to say the Communostalgic in the former USSR is as follow : "tankie" wordview, very socially conservative, xenophobic, close-minded, cherishes authoritarianism much more than the idea of a classless society. Basically: a demographic that is rather similar to the one that votes for the Far Right in the West.
TLDR: Who are the nostalgics of Communism / Ceausescu in Romania ? Are they old ? Are they young ? Are they educated ? Are they open minded when it comes to social issues (sexuality, religion, minority rights, immigration) ? Are they pro-Putin ? Is it compatible with being (or claiming to be) religious ?