On 1 January 1990, the book began being serialized in the new official Romanian newspaper "Adevărul" ("The Truth"), which on that day replaced the Communist "Scînteia" ("The Spark"). In its lead, "Adevărul" explained that the book's serialization by Radio Free Europe had "played an incontestable role" in overthrowing Ceauşescu" according to the text on the back cover of the book's second edition, published during 1990. "Red Horizons" was subsequently republished in 29 countries, and it was made into a documentary movie by the Hungarian TV.