Awesome video, i love collecting stuff from wars and countries that aren't really about. Right now im working a mid 90's post velvet revolution Czech impression
Regarding the general's uniform, the trousers, I find them interesting. Usually, the two thicker lines of pipping would have had the original thin red pipping in the middle. If I were to guess, this may be an earlier issue. And, of course, nothing is capable of beating that beautiful golden embroidery that the visor hat and the rank elements the jacket presents.
Wow! That vânători de munte beret is very rare, and super nice of course. And the fact that the cockade has the coloured backing is even rarer. It was something extra that not everybody wanted. This coloured backing may be seen used with some insignia too. For example, if you were to put a military academy insignia on the jacket I commented on earlier, you could add such an element to it.
You may notice that the intendență visor hat presents 2 holes above the cockade. This is a sign that after the revolution, it was still used with the communist cockade but a golden eagle with a plain Romanian flag on its chest was added. This may be seen on many post revolution visor hats, as the new non-communist pieces ( uniforms, insignia and so on ) took time to reach every unit.
The raincoat is a really nice find too! This type of shoulder boards (for raincoat ) are rare as they are, let alone with the border guards' pipping. And it's just a nice touch that you have everything that comes with the coat: belt and hood; as these are detachable and did indeed get lost many times.
I really am liking what you have here, its a great reference as I am now trying to put together a Romanian Infantry kit to go along with my MD-65. Keep up the good work
I remember seeing Romanian soldiers with RSR buckles on their belts in 2005, with the 1990s camouflage uniform. Nowadays all the old stuff is no longer in use, rhe the current Romanian combat uniform is a photocopy of the American one, with hardly any distinctive national elements, which I find quite sad.
BBC just serving their paymaster.... the UK Gov..... who in turn serve their paymaster..... the U.S.A. The gun incident will just be there as fiction to 'Demonise' the Ceausescu family...... "oh how beastly they must have been, how thankful we are to have brought them crashing down" etc etc. So now, with the leaders now gone who brought you free healthcare, education, dental, electricity across the land, equal rights for women, industry, housing; the people of Romania now 'enoy the freedoms' of seeing their natural resources stripped by European and American corporations, their industry now dismantled and idle, the youth and skill drain away as their citizens seek work in other countries. Nice also to see the first act of the new 'democratic Liberal' movement is to extrajudiously execute two people, point blank. Yes, a fine American tradition that, executing presidents, it happens quite often over there.......... they call it a democracy too!! You could not make it up! Thankyou for the video Sir. Kind regards.
At the point of understanding I have of the world now, my default position is that anything happening in the world from say 1960 onwards will have been a CIA/MI6 regime change operation. Here in 1989 Rumania, any crowd disturbance will likely have been a false-flag operative attempting to cause some atrocity which could then be 'painted' as a 'dastardly deed' done by 'a heavy handed regime', merely to manufacture false consent and whip-up popular engagement in the revolution. All this was just prior to the West's economic and societal assault on Yugoslavia don't forget, so it was clearly part of a 'programme' of determined efforts to eliminate socialist governments in Europe. Thank you for the video Sir, and the useful mention of the book you cite. Kind regards.
I think I herd the variant of people being poked with sharp objects to create panick. Afterwards, the army and securitate forces that blocked the square ( at Ceausescu's order) would backdown and let "civillians" get inside to put presure on the decision of Ceausescu and wife to take off in the helicopter. Except his personal guard, everyone fleed and comitted treason.
That is absolutely a possibility although im my opinion, i do not think the panic was deliberate. You're absolutely right but that was the day after the speech which was recorded.
Everything was deliberate. There are recent interesting interviews with defense lawyer of Ceausescu, the prosecutor who instrumented the Revolution case (and others) that says interesting stuff, like: the commander of Targoviste military base ordered (in 1990) to plaster imaginary holes on the buildings because they said the base was under heavy fire but no window was shatered. Everything was planned. Others say the insuline Ceausescu needed (this is pre 1989) was brought by his brother (army general) from the factory because he knew they are trying to kill him. The DSS (state security department) was listening him, he found out and send his brother with the army in the DSS headquarters, searched everything and destroyed the documents related to him. Also the prosecutor says they know that the group who overtook him existed since late 70's, if I recall. They planned it, they made the people unhappy (keeping provisions in warehouses and in State reserves), waiting for the right moment and after they overtook him, market was full of oranges and everything peopled lacked off. I could send you some interviews but I don't think they have english subs.
Documentaries like that described in the video rarely bother too much with small details (correct uniforms and so on). It’s the drama and the “historical significance” that matters most to their makers.
I'm afraid the BBC is an extremist leftist organisation peddling fake, false and misinformation propaganda. Most people know this now. It comes right out of the Soviet playbook. Lie, change history etc.
There was very clearly live original footage 22-25/12/1989 so I agree. Why add the Timisoara nonsense. Thank you for highlighting this and other discrepancies. For me, unacceptable even more so considering it’s from the BBC.
Random algotihm got me a nice video today. Nice one man, i agree with you that it flabbergasting how they add audio and manipulate when they call it a documentary. Dont't get me wrong, im all for clear pictures colour pictures of vides from one hundred years ago. But editing documentarys to play at people's heartsstrings are wrong. I think it started with the french ww1 doc apocalypse.
I was wondering if you had any information on the Romanian greatcoats that were the same as the regular ones provided to infantry except for they had a white faux fur collar that wasn't on the regular one
