For six days, hundreds of thousands of Romanians (in the nation’s cities but also abroad) have protested in the street in defense of democracy and the instruments of the Rule of Law, after the government passed an emergency ordinance which would have made possible the decriminalization of corruption. These were the largest protests since those in 1989, which led to the fall of the communist regime. The protests were non-violent and the creativity and solidarity of Romanians were given as an example worldwide through the international media.