Decade ("60s" or "sixties"), although this may leave it uncertain which century is meant. These references are frequently used to encapsulate popular culture or other widespread phenomena that dominated such a decade, as in "The Great Depression of the 1930s" or "The Roaring Twenties". However, the Gregorian calendar begins with the year 1. (There is no year "zero", and the year before AD 1 is 1 BC with nothing in between.) Therefore, its "first" decade is from AD 1 to AD 10, the "second" decade from AD 11 to AD 20, and so on. So, although "the 1960s" comprises the years
Obsessive decade Obsessive decade The Obsessive decade (Romanian: "obsedantul deceniu") refers to the 1950s, a decade full of widespread abuses from the Stalinist authorities. Specifically, this expression is used to refer to the Romanian literary works which, following the De-Stalinization and relative liberalization of the 1960s, began discussing the abuses of the 1950s era. "Principele" ("The Prince", 1969) by Eugen Barbu is an allegory referring to the Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej regime. The novel is set in the Phanariote era, describing a prince trying to build a canal (referring to the Danube – Black Sea Canal) without any consideration for his subjects, many of