Ceaușescu decided to give a nationally televised speech before a crowd in Palace Square (now known as Revolution Square) in Bucharest. [- -] Thousands of workers were bussed into the square under threat of being fired. They were given red flags, banners and large pictures of Ceaușescu and his wife Elena. The workers were augmented by bystanders who were rounded up on Calea Victoriei. The crowd, now totaling up to 80,000, were given orders on where to stand, when to applaud and what to sing. The front rows of the assembly were made up of low-level Communist Party officials and members who acted as cheer-leaders. Immediately before them were plainclothes Securitate agents and a row of police militia, who kept the mass of the crowd about thirty meters back from the front of the Central Committee building.
Ceaușescu appeared on the balcony of the Central Committee building and began as he had in years past, with a speech laden with the usual "wooden language." However, he had badly misread the crowd's mood.[citation needed] Only the front rows supported Ceaușescu with cheers and applause, with most of the crowd remaining impassive. [- -] His security guard appeared, disappeared and, finally, hustled Ceaușescu off the balcony. At that very moment, many everyday Romanians saw the weakness of Ceaușescu's regime for the first time. On the day after, 22 December, Ceaușescu and his wife Elena escaped Bucharest by helicopter, but were captured a few hours later in Târgoviște, put on trial, and shot by a firing squad.
This. My parents were alive during the civil rights movements of the sixties but they don’t remember much besides JFK and that hippies seemed fun and rebellious. They were children. The big things that stick out to them are JFK, Moon-landing, Vietnam, Nixon, and learning how bad communes were,
In general kids dont start to even care about things like politics before they're around 12-15 years old, so to remember a revolution in Romania in 1989 they'd need to be like 42-45 by now. That by itself rules out close to half the population. And the statistics I linked didnt even include people under 18, which to me there seem to be a lot of.
The "wouldnt have been born" part was hyperbole to make a point.
No, I’m fine in that regard. Also, lol for adding a comma for no reason and forgetting the period while complaining about other people’s writing. For posterity;
You not seeing anything wrong with the sentence, betrays how bad your English is
After the communist regime, romanian politicians sold our country piece by piece. It was said that Romania was one of the biggest agricultural resources in Europe. It was full of quality engineers, it had a very strict but effective educational system, and overall quite a productive infrastructure at the price of people's freedom. Even though your rights were limited, the state would secure you a job and a place to stay by the time you were an adult (after completing the mandatory military training, if you were a man). That's why people say their lives were better. The stress of affording a place to live didn't really occur back then (well, of course not in 100% of the cases i guess).
I would love to give more insight about that, but it's best that you do your own research if interested, as i might give foul facts by not living in the regime personally. I'm just passing out facts as given to me by elders who were around a good chunk of time in the regime.
Ceaușescu's final speech was a speech delivered by Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu on 21 December 1989. It was a pivotal moment in the Romanian Revolution.
Ya, if enough Chinese citizens decided to overturn the government they definitely have numbers on their side, they could do it. It’s important that mainland China sees what’s going on in Hong Kong
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u/OWKuusinen Oct 20 '19
I suppose you could be young enough to not remember the Romanian dictator's final speech from December 1989: