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2019-12-26 Europe

30 years ago, Romania's authoritarian communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu was deposed and executed on #ChristmasDay

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Posted by Fred 2019-12-26 01:13|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Commies

#1 Also on Christmas Day.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-26 01:31|| 2019-12-26 01:31|| Front Page Top

#2 ...Watch the video sometime - it captures the exact moment when Ceaucescu realized that he was in very, very deep sh!t.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2019-12-26 03:53|| 2019-12-26 03:53|| Front Page Top

#3 The Palace that Ceausescu built for himself before the collapse was, at the time, the biggest palace in the world. It is now used as Presidential residence, Parliament, Govt. Office and a conference center.

The biggest palace in the world today is Erdogan's in Turkey.

I recently read a book on this (by Andrei Codescu). The 1989 Revolution in Romania is considered one of the best examples of a preference cascade.

Ceausescu was 're elected' in late November 89 with the usual 99+% of the vote.

There were some demonstrations in some towns the first week of Dec. On Dec 21, Ceausescu presided over a rally. People were supposed to cheer in unison, and one cheer was 'Ura Partidul'. The phrase means 'long live the party' if the accent is on the first syllable of 'Ura'. But as the cheering went on, some in the crowd put the accent on the end of the word 'Ura' which means 'Hated' so the phrase means 'Hated is the party'. This caught on with almost everyone in the crowd using that accenting. By Dec 24, 1989, Ceausescu had been arrested and removed from office.

Posted by lord garth 2019-12-26 08:07|| 2019-12-26 08:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Couldn’t have happened to a nicer man and woman.

Posted by Uleck Spererong9442 2019-12-26 08:49|| 2019-12-26 08:49|| Front Page Top

#5 slowly at first

Posted by Lex 2019-12-26 09:47|| 2019-12-26 09:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Up against the wall, Greta. Want a cigarette?

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-12-26 10:43|| 2019-12-26 10:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Somebody tell Coonman.

Posted by Cesare 2019-12-26 10:53|| 2019-12-26 10:53|| Front Page Top

#8 Did the NYT commemorate the occasion by calling him an 'austere leader'?

Posted by Raj 2019-12-26 11:02|| 2019-12-26 11:02|| Front Page Top

#9 #3 - but he won the popular vote! Hillary.

Posted by Bobby on the road 2019-12-26 13:44|| 2019-12-26 13:44|| Front Page Top

#10 That's cruel, Murcek. Don't you know cigarettes emit carbon dioxide? Of course so does she...

Posted by James 2019-12-26 22:57|| 2019-12-26 22:57|| Front Page Top

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