Clip for the song Ace of Base "Happy nation" Includes archive footage from the last year of the communist regime and the Romanian revolution of 1989 #history #happynation #reverb #romania
It's like in a bad relationship: like, your partner forces something upon you, makes you pretend you are happy with it, and then gets stunned when learning that your happiness wasn't sincere.
Exactly, he was constantly lied to, the Soviets used him as an easy to control puppet so their eyes would be on him, not them or the NKVD, etc. Every time he went into stores per example it was made "fully stocked for him" despite more than half of it being fake painted produce/food. His wife though was a thoroughly heartless creature who yelled "grow up" when the riots started.
For me as well. Also when I editet the part with the lyrics "Tell them we've gone too far" and the crowd going out on the street I had massive chills man
My dad was watching the news here in the UK on the day that happened - I was 6 years old, and I still remember that image of the chopper lifting off into the air. Obviously I was too young to understand but I remember the pictures.
My grandpa: "it was chaos, we all tought we were going to die. We had no room to take a step forward because of the dead covering the ground" Mfs in 2024: "ah yes, let's slap happy nation over that"
This is not meant to diss or to show disrespect towards the people who have died. I have huge respect for the folks that sacrificed their own lives for our freedom. I woud love to see Romania fully democratic and I never voted for today's parties that come from FSN. This is just a video archive mashed up to match the song lyrics more or less. The people who have died made this happy nation that we have today. I believe we can make it even happier.
If Ceacescu just rebuild all the lost homes, roads and structures back in 1977 and not replace it with his big fat ahh residence and all that boulevard and useless apartment buildings maybe the population wouldn't become so mad at him 💀
He made many mistakes but the socialist doctrine couldn't let him do good for the people. The party needed workers and boring flats were the solution. The nomenclature needed spacious flats to live and someone had to build them. 1977 earthquaqe was just leverage for him to do this.
He was constantly lied to, the Soviets used him as an easy to control puppet so their eyes would be on him, not them or the NKVD, etc. Every time he went into stores per example it was made "fully stocked for him" despite more than half of it being fake painted produce/food. His wife though was a thoroughly heartless creature who yelled "grow up" when the riots started. He thought the people admired him so in his mind the palace was justified, not knowing the true suffering of the people of Romania until it was too late (probably never even believed it in his "NKVD trial").
It's very interesting. Ceausescu was jailed in prison during the time of fascist dictature in Romania. Macellariu was an admiral of Romanian Navy during this time. The first of them is called a criminal in modern Romania, but the second is a national hero.
@@Fulmine177 they mean that Romania had strong nationalism, and during the socialist rule it is not fascist as the control is collective. Even though some revolutionaries become cults of personality, it is a different story. That strong nationalism in Romania, during those times, just basically tried to create DPRK of Europe though Albania already was that. If socialism is nationalist, it will break because of its low productivity with violence as what Romania have gone through. And basically, that nationalism conflicts with the ideas of Karl Marx's communism, specifically the stateless society as nationalism aims to preserve a country.
@@nisp6118 Ceauseschsu’s austerity after he raked up debts and forced the nation into poverty (food and fuel shortages, power cuts) to pay for it while living in luxury (bringing back bear hunting just for himself) and spending more than multiple government departments on building a gigantic People’s Parliament whose construction caused thirty thousand people to those their homes and the destruction of most of the Old City of Bucharest for a building that even today remains 70% unused. As well as his North Korea inspired attempts at creating a personality cult based around a European conception of juche. And the resulting authoritarian as well as restricting women’s rights in a bid to increase the countries population banning abortion and birth control. In addition to his, villagisation policy that for economic rationalisation saw the destruction of hundreds of villages (disproportionately belonging to Romania’s Hungarian-speaking minority) and plans for demolition of thousands more.
@@nisp6118also re-using syringes which led to disproportionately-Roma orphans getting AIDs as they could not get enough food they were given blood injections many of which had been used on people infected with AIDs
I dont understand how there are people in the coments defending those goverments, i dont need to be a radical anti-communidt average dude to know autocracies suck. Either way nice vid
@@marechaltukhachevsky2909 você é masoquista so pode, a Romênia sofreu crise apos crise soba economia de comando dele, fora as MILHARES de pessoas que morreram graças ao regime ditatorial Socialista romeno
@@marechaltukhachevsky2909 você é maluco né? Me diz que isso é ironia. Crises econômicas, pobreza, assassinatos...tem um motivo pelo qual os romenos não tiveram piedade quando ele se rendeu, e deram mais de 100 tiros nele antes do Natal. Ele não merecia nem passar esse festival.
oligarchs who have a stranglehold on power like this should always be held accountable as he was, regardless of political bias. People seem to think "we'll it's okay because he's a dictator on MY side of the argument" ... only people who win from this mentality are the dictators, not the people underneath them.
You've just said something many people will never figure out. I'm a white middle class American who works in law enforcement so Trump is good for me, but I still hate him because he's bad for so many. (oh for clarity, I'm not saying he's an oligarch or whatever I'm just saying you shouldn't like people just because they're good for you like OP is also saying)
@@LiterallyaFacePalm It becomes easy I think the more you learn about history. I'm also a sociologist and my mentor is a Nazi expert. The big lesson out of that era was the way politics and people mix. Hitler didn't put himself into power, normal people put him there. (And not that Trump is Hitler, I'm just explaining a lesson from history about politicians)
В обществе, основанном на эксплуатации, высшей моралью является мораль социалистической революции. Л. Троцкий. Агония капитализма и задачи Четвертого Интернационала
Romania had the weakest armed forces in entire Warsaw pact, dad told me that around 5-10 yrs before the revolution soldiers weren't even soldiers. they were "deployed" to build state infrastructure
Im crying. Im so happy for these peoples even tho im living now in Belarus under authoritarian and dictatirshup government, and on time of rusification of nation. I wish god will smile to the side of Belarus.
I witnessed the collapse of the Eastern European communist regimes as a cold war kid in the Netherlands. It was shocking to me, but positively shocking. But now I am wondering about one thing. I know that Dacia bought the designs of the Renault 12, but also of the Renault 20? I see a Renault 20 like model twice in this video.
Dacia 2000 - licence-built Renault 20 for the upper levels of the Romanian Communist Party. I believe that Elena was chauffeured around in one, but am willing to be corrected on that. The R12 became the Dacia 1300 - pretty much the national car in those days.
@@andreitaga5988 its true, but christianity has been the base of romania for hundreds of years so the government should take care of Romania’s origins.
@@razvandrey3376 Biserica nu are treaba cu politica. Este o institutie strict cu scop spiritual al carui rol este de a da acces oamenilor la credința lor. Nu cred ca ar trebui sa aibă un cuvânt de spus. E suficient că BOR nu plateste taxe si are de asemenea multitudine de facilitati fiscale. Nu sunt de acord sa aiba un cuvant politic de spus.
@@andreitaga5988 Cu ce partid votezi? Eu cred ca Biserica ar trebui sa aiba putere in politica din mai multe motive: In primul rand, Biserica este a doua cea mai respectata institutie in Romania dupa armata. Majoritatea romanilor au incredere in ea. Mai ales daca o compari cu partidele politice care sunt la mai putin de 10%... In al doilea rand, statul iti cere impozite, cum este si normal. Biserica are scopul de a educa populatia intr-un mod moral si corect. Nu exista niciun motiv pentru care Biserica sa nu aiba voie sa intervina in viata de zi cu zi a cetatenilor, pentru beneficiul lor. In plus, Biserica ajuta o gramada de saraci, bolnavi si batrani. Mai ales pe cei de la tara. Ar trebui sa fie emise legi care sa interzica blasfemia. Sa nu se intample drq ce s-a intamplat in SUA unde Biden a numit ziua de paste o sarbatoare a transgenderilor! Este o nebunie in tarile care au abandonat religia. Sunt invadate de musulmani si de lgbt, care de abia asteptau ca crestinii sa-si piarda credinta. Romania este o tara sfanta, intre doua rauri. Nu putem permite ca tara noastra sa fie vanduta celor care l-au abandonat pe Dumnezeu.
Главная ошибка Чаушеска заключается в том, что он не принял закон о том, что его нельзя судить после окончания его срока президенства как кое кто(лукашенко) Изменено:многие видимо не выкупили рофла
его главная ошибка - политика жёсткой экономии, что ухудшила жизнь обычных граждан и при этом он сам построил себе огромный шикарный дворец посреди столицы. т.е. пока простые румыны голодали, диктатор жил в роскоши и ни в чём себе не отказывал.
I would agree, there comes a point where freedoms to innovate by yourself will be the drivers of innovation, and not sponsorship by some government or other
Didn’t he change his political doctrine to an oppressive regime one only after visiting Mao’s China? I remember that he was one of the main leaders of the ‘Warsaw Pact’ that connected, through diplomacy, the West (aka US) with the East (aka USSR), bringing also progress and modernization, this all before his visit to Beijing
He visited North Korea in the early 1970s, and it's reckoned that the adulation he saw Kim Il-sung receiving had a massive influence on him. It would explain the megalomaniac rebuilding of Bucharest...
Well yes, but the connection with the west was actually more a game for him. If you're familiar with the "glassnot" term there you go. The strategy was to gain trust of most western powers for military technology blueprints. The funny thing is most of co-operation with western industries was based on academic espionage. In 70s we steal a lot of blueprints. So yeah the jokes with Romanians and stealing actions is a bigger rabbit hole. All was good until summer 1978 when his personal advisor (and also the spy master) defected in US, not longer after his visit with Jimmy Carter. The west was informed about his glassnot policy, his action of academic espionage has halted and the true face after was revealed. See "Red Horizons" for more. Yet worse had to come. Many military technology development budget was spend from civilian budgets. So as the years had to pass, the worse it get for basic civilian products like oil, milk, bread, etc. Especially from 1985. I wasn't born in his historical period, but I hear stories and I study this topic from time to time.
@@AndreiDuicu You're talking about Ion Mihai Pacepa when you mention his advisor? I have read Red Horizons - it's a wild tale and shows the world the full horror of what Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu were capable of.
Exactly. I finished reading the book some months ago. Many of his mementos are about this. Worst part was also about involving terrorism in different countries. What a wild ride was that book.
@@AndreiDuicu It is indeed a crazy story that he tells in that book. If it is accurate, Ceausescu was little better than a mafia boss who just happened to be the leader of a country. A total psychopath.
@andreitaga5988 his name is Miodrag Popov. He worked for RTS at that time, I can't find any article, but I found his documents, and yes, he reported in 1989. I won't say his address. It's censored in the document. It's not public knowledge. He was born in 1958 in Zrenjanin. Just look him up. Search: Miodrag Popov
Romania depends of what ``that bad man`` did to romania i mean roads,buildings,factories.After the revolution all that ceausescu build are now destroyed
Very true. Too bad that only applies to the biggest cities. I was born in Romania, my father is from Babaita (2 hours from Bucharest), my mother is from Rahova (Bucharest), some of my aunts and uncles are from all over Romania: Timisioara, Moldova (not the country). From all the stories I could manage to put together it paints the picture that only Bucharest was living a decent life, but even that was just appearence since they had food rations, they were forced to work and were paid like shit. Outside of Bucharest even to this day we still don't have asphalt and roads. Something that we Romanian people call "tara" which is basically just "countryside" has been looking like the 1800s until about 20 years ago. My grandpa still had "casa parinteasca" which is basically "family house" made mostly of wood, wheat and dirt. Ceausesc stole the land of the people and abused it to push his industrialization (this was a big revolution motto: to give back the lands to the people). Even during the first elections PSD promised the same thing. Ceausescu deported all non romanian citizen back to their countries (germans, turks and hungarians mostly). Search up for "fenomenu Pitesti": basically a project for re-education and brain-washing. They only had electricity for a couple hours a day, they had only one news channel, they had only a few hours of tv programs. Communism was not fun in Romania. Ceausesc did exactly what any dictator does: Hitler and Mussolini did the same. They lied to their people and pretended to better the country but that came to the cost of its own citizens. I also agree that the revolution was not only executed by the citizens as the army was also against Ceausescu. Some of my parents were active military privates when they got arrested and ordered to stand down by the revolutionaires. Not fun.
@@andreitaga5988 who writes your history books? Shock Therapy ruined Bulgaria as recommended by economists like Jeffrey Sachs. Causescu indeed introduced austerity, but it was to repay debt trap by the IMF and World Bank. Exactly the same problem African and South American countries experience. You either repay the debt as quickly as possible, or your whole country becomes enslaved forever. Kwame Nkruma, first president of Ghana, wrote a book called "Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism" for which the CIA killed him. Don't hate Causescu, what he did was not without precedent or logic
вся страна голодала, горячая вода раз в неделю, электричество несколько часов в день, бедность и при этом правитель имеет огромный дорогой дворец. звучит как рай для русских
A family of four estimated monthly costs are 2,189.0$ (10,083.1lei) without rent. A single person estimated monthly costs are 630.8$ (2,905.5lei) without rent. Cost of living in Romania is, on average, 47.0% lower than in United States.
Необходимо ликвидировать капитализм, частную собственность, конкуренцию, бюрократию, рыночную экономику, рынок недвижимости, риелторскую деятельность, рынок ценных бумаг, биржи, предпринимательство, маркетинг, рекламу. Слово "бизнес" пора забыть. Всё должно быть национализировано. Общество должно быть бесклассовым.
В обществе, основанном на эксплуатации, высшей моралью является мораль социалистической революции. Л. Троцкий. Агония капитализма и задачи Четвертого Интернационала
I will not defend Ceausescu here. It's just that when I was watching a documentary about him, I thought: "I'm not the type to understand everything, but the question. Why was Ceausescu executed along with his wife, and not imprisoned for life, for example. My wife was also executed". And also, the music is awesome. I love her very much.
Ceasusecu was executed because there were worried that there would be a counter revolution His government fell quickly, and large parts of the army and secret services were still intact and their loyalty was in doubt
And Romania condemned the USSR against sending troops from the 5 communist states to Czechoslovakia in 1968, refusing to participate in the invasion, then the Soviets came to the border with Romania. With the intention of doing the same thing, after Ceaușescu he was also hated by the Soviets, but it seems they haven't done anything about it anymore. Just western..? Nah...
He built so much in this country. Its first highways, about 85% or so of its roads, our only 2 nuclear power plants, countless factories and megacorporations that manufactured literally everything, paid our debts, industrialized this nation, promoted its image everywhere, housed almost everyone and made everyone had a job. He left us with 0 debts. Those morons after him ruined the nation and because of them were worse than in his times. Even though officially we were atheist, nobody did anything if u went to church. „Stima Noastră și Mândria - Ceaușescu, România!”
"Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu announced this week that his country, despite an economy that a recent U.S. congressional report called the second poorest in Europe, has paid off all of its foreign debts ahead of schedule." - The Washington Post - April 13, 1989
And that Christmas night, the people of Romania could sleep well and tight in their beds knowing that their leaders had finally succeeded in becoming good communists.
People were queuing 5 hours for a slice of expired ham. Communism was a failed experiment. Even China has shifted more and more to capitalism. Although I don’t support extreme capitalism, capitalism with slight government regulatory oversight is much better than communism.
Gdp raised from 40 billion to 400 billion and more exports than ever compared to the communist period. Stores are full of food you can buy as you please. @@fireleaks434
@@andreitaga5988 stores are full of fake shit and marketing is there only to scam its clients and we have in stores romanian products that are very scarce so not a good argument actually
@@andreitaga5988 And Elena was almost illiterate. Some "Doctor of Science" she was... The two of them deserved each other, but Romania had to suffer under them for far too long. I've read that even the USSR was planning ways to remove them before the events of December '89 happened. How bad do you have to be when even the Soviets say you've gone too far?
@@iana6713 Guess why, because Ceausescu himself was against social imperialist USSR policies such as the invasion of Czechoslovakia. The soviets wanted to get rid of a nationalist leader who would never become a puppet.
@@BlackpilledNihilist Towards the end of the USSR, Ceausescu, Honecker of the GDR and Husak of Czechoslovakia saw themselves as the true communists, and Gorbachev as a renegade... All three of them on the wrong side of history...
You are the first russian who has enough balls to tell the truth. Huge respect! I hope you guys will live in true freedom and democracy soon! Let's end this shitshow in Ukraine.
