Reconstruction (2001 film): what Wikipedia removed
Reconstruction is a 2001 documentary about the 1959 Ioanid Gang bank heist in Communist Romania, whose Jewish members were later subjected to a state propaganda film built on their trial. Through 2010 the opening said, “The documentary gets its name from an antisemitic propaganda film that was made by the Romanian government three years after the robbery was committed.” Today’s opening calls it simply “a propaganda film,” antisemitic gone from the opening though the word survives 3 times elsewhere in the article. A reader today does not learn from the opening that the original Romanian government film was specifically an antisemitic propaganda piece.
The word “antisemitism” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 3. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| antisemitism | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.
What was taken out
Section titled “What was taken out”The changes on this article are at the word level rather than whole passages; the table above shows the counts moving.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 295035962):
Reconstruction is a 2001 documentary made by Irene Lusztig that investigates the Ioanid Gang bank heist committed in 1959 in Communist Romania . The film focuses on Monica Sevianu, Lusztig’s grandmother, and the only female involved in the heist. The documentary gets its name from an antisemitic propaganda film that was made by the Romanian government three years after the robbery was committed. The original Reconstruction was a strange blend of documentary and fiction , where the criminals played themselves in a crime-film whose plot was driven by clues that self-congratulatory detectives pieced together. The propaganda film was only screened to journalists and high ranking communist offici…
2025 (revision 1287094906):
2001 film by Irene Lusztig Reconstruction is a 2001 documentary made by Irene Lusztig that investigates the Ioanid Gang bank heist committed in 1959 in Communist Romania . The film focuses on Monica Sevianu, Lusztig’s grandmother, and the only female involved in the heist. The documentary gets its name from a propaganda film that was made by the Romanian government three years after the robbery was committed. The original Reconstruction was a strange blend of documentary and fiction , where the criminals played themselves in a crime-film whose plot was driven by clues that self-congratulatory detectives pieced together. The propaganda film was only screened to journalists and high-ranking Co…
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