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What does Zig Forums think of Nicolae Ceaușescu?
Oliver Lee
Bentley Hill
he got blown the fuck out
Cooper Kelly
Easily one of the worst communist leaders and STILL capitalist restoration was so bad it makes him look good in comparison.
Lincoln Reed
It's amusing because Romanians will shid and fard about communism but insist Cuckescu was the best communist leader.
Jason Ross
A Romanian guy, older, educated in political science, told me that Ceausescu instituted the austerity to pay back the IMF debt. That the people were actually kind of on board cause he promised them that things will improve once the debt was paid. They managed to pay the debt but he went back on his promise and continued the same measures. So they killed him.
Is this a fair description?
Mason Cruz
Tbf he paid-back the loans in early 1989 so he could have eased off massively. Whether he would have been overthrown later that year is debatable, but I don't think he was shot because he didn't repay the loans: he was shot because when the protests started he send the police guns-blazing into the protesters.
Nicolae is a great example of why the Velvet revolutions (contrary to what liberals say) were as violent as any others if pushed: the crowds were a threat of violence almost all of the eastern bloc leaders gave-in to. Romania is the one country they didn't give into them and that saw its leader shot and thrown in a ditch.
Jonathan Anderson
youtube.com
You guys seen this? It's pretty stunning, people showed up there with portraits and signs praising Ceausescu but then started booing as they realised is just another event of useless sloganeering. Also, he tells his delusional wife to shut up as she thinks she is some Marie Antionette or something, telling the protestors to shut up. Looks to me Ceausescu was until the end very aware he was leader on a peoples's mandate, something the Securitate and his wife didn't understand.
Tyler Kelly
Nevertheless, according to opinion polls held in 2010, 41% of Romanians would vote for Ceaușescu[64][65] and 63% think that their lives were better before 1989.[65][66] In 2014, the percentage of those who would vote for Ceaușescu reached 46%.[67]
en.wikipedia.org
Despite the harsh austerity measures of the 1980s in Romania being still in living memory, many Romanians respond in polls that they'd prefer a restoration of the Communist regime (as much as 53% in a 2012 poll), looking back nostalgically at an era of perceived stability and safety as opposed to the recent economic and political instability
en.wikipedia.org
Michael Taylor
If that is the case. Why is not a strong Communist party there?
Sebastian Nelson
This is one of questions that I want to ask Ismail one day, as well as other leftists. My opinion is that A) Communist party is banet B)people vote for Social Democratic Party which is continuation of previous communist party.
C)Politicians promise goodies and people vote for those liars
D)Brain drain duo to easy emigration laws.