I'm not in favour of capital punishment as a rule, but 1) you live by the sword you end dying by it 2) can I understand the anger and fury behind this execution? Hell yeah!
Neither am I, but I think it was necessary to save lives in the long run and end the regime. Otherwise there would have been pockets of resistance for a long time.
good video like to see these old vids...good job! Im from Romania and was born in september 11 1989 ,and I can see iliescu was the downfall of our nation...not the freedom people hoped for...a comunist who went to school in russsia isnt the person you would have expected to establish democracy you know....
@shadowq2 pana una alta vreau sa te fac sa intelegi ceva:atunci era o perioada scurta de timp pentru ca tara sa-si revina financiar din cauza datoriilor facute pentru a fi bine pentru populatie. Ceausescu a afcut un discurs inainte cu vreo 2 ani si promisese ca in 1990 o sa fim cea mai puternica tara din toate punctele de vedere! Tradatorii, ca sa nu vada rezultate finale ale regimului, l-au asasinat la comanda elitelor lumii sa darame aceasta tara si sa se treaca la ce este acum, CAPITALISM!!!
Romania can not be compared with Nord Korea.. the standards in Romania were much higher..but the people were amongst the most opressed in Europe..no food in stores(the cues were kilometrical), no freedom of speech, no chance to leave the country.. The Wester Allies loved Ceausescu until the late 70's, because he had the guts to stand up to the Soviet Union, but after the head of Secret Police escaped to USA and told the real story of Romania, everything changed, and Romania became isolated..
@MrDanutzz88 cate dreptate ai , Romania era mare producator , cunoscuta , acum suntem simpli consumatori ..........Daca vindem si Rosia Montana impreuna cu celelalte mine ale Romaniei suntem terminati .
A libertarian form of socialism needs to be presented to the world. Not only would this work better than the current authoritarian socialism, but it would truly give the working class power. No more dictatorships, walls, brainwashing or spying, just a political system in which the leaders can identify with Joe Public and give what's best for their people. Where I live, in England, there are too many tiny leftwing parties with few members. If they all united under one ideology, it could succeed.
@meleght i am a kid of 15 years that lives in romania and i can say that it has a very very poor government, everybody in this counry wants the president and the government down, but we have no other men to lad our country, so when i will be 18 me and my parents decided to move out the country in other places in Europe, take Switzerland, or Evian in France close to Geneve as example
@malcomx4u noone mentioned KGB agents, as far as I know, Caucescu asked for help from Gorbachow, but Gorbachew didn't wanted to send him any help, because he was for the reform, not against, so the story about KGB is false, they didn't do anything in DDR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria etc etc.
Utterly ludicrous. Even as someone considered 'conservative' I can see the current democratic party as being where the GOP was 20 years ago. Alas, due to the large-scale shift to the right of the system overall, it's hard to step back and look at it objectively.
@Gandarme1991 Nowadays we've got "free elections" to choose a party that is hand tied by the big banks and corporations, "private economy" serves to bail out banks and cut down worker's rights (in Spain you'll have to be 67 to retire, just to make money to save banks from bankrupcy)... I'm not saying I support Ceacescu's regimen, but is this "democracy" much better, or just a defacto dictatorship of the market? Capitalism means crisis.
It's still an overwhelming number. Who carried out this masscare? It takes an almost incomprehensible force to inflict such an attrocity. 2000 dead? That's the casulaty rate of American soldiers in Iraq in the first 3 years after the invasion. How can 2000 be killed by non-existant forces in a few days?
Anyway, congratulations Mr. Brown! Now, 21 years later, most Romanians say they used to "live better" in the old days, before this "Revolution". Just think... why was Romania the only Socialist Bloc country to have such a violent overthrow of it's communits leader? Why so many dead? Why the only leader in the Warsaw Pact who got executed?
The British Assistant Military Attache to Romania is a NON-ESSENTIAL member of the British Embassy Staff? NICE AND POINTY BRITISH IRONY. The guy actually said "we joined in", "we were Romanians"... A very nice way of playing with the true meaning of the words he spoke. USE YOUR BRAIN AND THINK HOW NON-ESSENTIAL THESE MEN WERE IN THIS SO-CALLED REVOLUTION.
@ElectronicMusicUK Interesting notion. One that i associate with an underdeveloped mind.Some of us value equality rather than inequality, getting satisfaction from accumulating more wealth than one person could ever use could be considered a sickness-something like kleptomania. It is not human nature to be greedy. Greed arises from circumstance.
@malcomx4u Russians, Poles, Czechs, everyone was comig to former Yugoslavia as well, in 1989-1990, more than any year before, it was their governments let them travel freely, most of them were selling junk stuff at flee markets, but it had nothing to do with KGB/.
Las ca e mai bine acum. In sfarsit a venit nota de plata pentru toate super masinile si vilele care au rasarit ca ciupercile dupa ploaie. Acum o sa le platim toti
@C12830772 You make a fair point. I apologize for jumping to conclusions. Mainly because you didn't not insult my intelligence and spelled things correctly. Unlike ComradeCeausescu1....
A small price to pay for shaking off the shackles of a despot.A pity that the Romania of today doesn't live up to the fervent expectation that was generated by their revolution.Noroc!
Destroyed villages where Hungarian minorities lived...wanted to move a church a few metres so the Socialism Boulevard was a straight line and spent ridiculous amounts of money doing so...gave a 6-hour speech at the 16th Party Conference... indulged in ridiculous levels of nepotism...he advocated invading Poland in the late 80s after he denounced invading Czechoslovakia in the 60s...
I'm a conservative AND liberal!?! And I'm probably the least patriotic person in the UK. I don't have a "Pol Pot and Stalin fetish", nor do I have any clue how you could have possibly thought I did...because I advocated state ownership of businesses?
you're in the UK. here in the united states, there are no "liberal conservatives". its an oxymoron. conservatism doesn't spend. liberalism spends a lot, to keep everyone happy.
@MotoscuterZ may peace be with you. I can see that your vision is blurred by your current beliefs. Think positive and your beliefs will change. Correction on your sentence...So much freedom caused people to be happy.
Ce baga nea Victor asta in engleza :))) Ca daca il iau pe unu de 10 ani de pe strada si il intreb cum ajung la gara in engleza imi da ala la lamuriri ....
It's your right to have an opinion. My grandmother agrees with you. And so do all the peasants that came to the big cities having nothing and then receiving a home and a job. today you don't get that for free. Otherwise, the country was falling apart, economically and socially..and murders were on daily basis (ckeck out Memorialul Durerii)
I don't know what your problem is, but you are clearly not living, or have ever lived in Romania.. or you are a retired Secret Police buddy. ;) If you had a good time in Romania before 1989 you must be one..
@ElectronicMusicUK I do have a life. I am a man that is content with what i have but not with what i am. Always improving myself but being humble and modest at the same time. Your greed has rotted your mind and makes you think that im misguided when your own words betray you as such. Those men you name (Mao, Stalin, Kim ) like i mentioned before were not the true face of communism. I like money but it doesn't dictate who i am or what i do. Examine your life and maybe you can "get" one yourself.
The negative legacy of communism is still ripe in Eastern Europe... it may take another 50 years for the people to recover both psychologically and financially. It is sad that we have not learnt our lessons and are dealing in business with many countries where people cannot be free such as China or some of the Arabic states.
@horrykt more-so for the hungarians! :) since they were persecuted also because they were hungarians. I escaped communism right before they killed that piece of garbage. Although I would not have appreciated it at that time much since I was only 8 years old.
problem is not this guy .the problem is you people judge an idea from people like stalin, this guy or pot pot pot. it is like i say capitalism bad because clinton is saxo lover..
@prunariu Tsk Tsk...you should calm down. You're going to have a heart attack. Really...why are you raging out? Do you want to be heard? Do you want to stand out with your caps lock being on? Relax yourself and enjoy your life.
used to think and admire the romanian's spirit of freedowm and agreed with what they did then but now i see i was wrong...Ceausescu did everything for Romania hestabilised and made so many things for Ro that no other has and will do ever...after his death it was easy to imagine what will come: corruption interest power starve and such,destruction in one word.Now nothing remains
@ElectronicMusicUK Communism hasn't been properly implemented, ever. Power in the hands of a few does not constitute communism. Get a clue. Stalin, Mao was not communism in any sense of the term.
@geotravis : post the very lewd comments u left on my channel here as I bet u are "ctlnbrag"...I also bet u'r no american or english(or else u knew "okidoki") but a frustrated romanian! so no, I'm not russian but a proud romanian. oooh,one more english lesson: ."...Russia,wright?" - do u mean "...Russia, RIGHT?"
Why after 21 years, out of the great industry we had and an international debt fully paid, a country with obvious high financial and economic expectancies has become one of the poorest of Europe? Again, please think about how NON-ESSENTIAL these men were then, and for what reason.
