Nicolae Ceausescu - a real "do-right" guy

[American Kid]

I've been reading up lately on this man. Another succesful communist uprising gone down, well, basically the exact way I expect it would if it happened anywhere in this world. Scan the checklist, all the nightmares-turned-reality are here. Including media manipulation and a dastardly "secret police".

There probably are a lot of you who are going to point right back at my USA in outrage and wonder what right I have talking shit when I live here.

Well, I beg to differ..............

Interested in your thoughts on him and his "ways".......

-Kid

(Edited by American Kid at 1:27 am on July 10, 2002)

[IzmSchism]

Never heard of him Bro,

Thanks for dropping his name, I'll have to check him out.

Speaking of setting up secret policing agencies and security commisions and watch dogs and ahem, let me clear my throat, money to watch the insane, greedy fucking bastards who just fuck everything up in this great world of ours.

It seems all the Bush (administration) does these days is set up new agencies and bodies

[Mazdak]

Oh, and the FBI and CIA aren't secret police???

[American Kid]

Much different. They let you watch whatever you want to on TV. And they'll kill you only if you're an established threat to our country and it's citizens. And quite honestly I sleep easy at night knowing they're protecting me.

Been a while since anyone significantly fucked with the USA, mm?

-Kid

[Capitalist Fighter]

This Romanian president was truly a bastard. His people were starving and with their money he was building a huge and opulent palace for himself that he named something like "Palace for the People" in which only he resided there and enjoyed its fruits.

[American Kid]

I read today that he outlawed contraception and abortions, in order to strengthen the country's workforce. Another example I believe of the inadvertant power the ideaologies of communism bestow upon the powers that be. Yes, the powers that be.

-Kid

[Borincano]

Nicolae Ceausescu was truly an evil man, easily said. His policies were monstrous, forcing people to watch 2 hours of TV, which was all about him. Still, ironically, he was shot live on television. I guess that was his last laugh, to, once again, allow the people of Romania to focus on him on their TV's. lol!

[Stormin Norman]

Who shot this man?

[Capitalist Fighter]

Romanians in the uprising of 1989...i think

[Moskitto]

Ceaucescu was a moron. He commited genocide against the Hungarians living in Transylvania, he went hunting all the time yet wouldn't allow anyone else to, And of course the TV thing. The only good thing about Ceaucescu was that he persued a reasonably independent foreign policy from the USSR and became the first Eastern block country to have formal relations with West Germany.

Ceaucescu was found guilty of genocide and executed (I think he was beheaded actually. He's also ranked as one of the 10 most evil people of all time by an online encyclopeadia.

[Borincano]

Moskitto,

He and his wife were both shot. Maybe he was beheaded afterwards, but http://www.thedictatorship.com has a link to a picture of it.

[I Will Deny You]

I'm not sure if he was one of the ten worst people of all time, but he was one of the ten worst people during his lifetime.

I don't remember where, but I recently read about orphans in Romania. Apparently they're all homeless and sniffing glue. It's really awful.

Those two hours of television remind me of Mark Bowden's article about Sadaam Hussein, and how he has people read awful poetry about him on Iraqi television.

Lindsay

[Borincano]

I Will Deny You,

Ironically, I just saw a documentary yesterday on Cable, called 'Children Underground.' It was about orphaned Romanian children, some ran away from home.

These kids hanged out in a train station in Bucharest and sniffed paint. I will always remember them. The only kindness they felt were from social workers that visited and cut their lice-filled hair. The younger ones seemed salvagable, and Ana (10) and her brother, Marian (8) eventually were. Ana went home to her mother and her father, both unemployed and drunks and her brother went to an orphanage.

I will remember the others, such as Macarena, whose from another country but doesn't have a passport so can't leave. She sniffes glue, and this one girl that was tougher than anybody. She fought for respect and power over the other kids and had a head bald as a ball. They showed her one year later after the police raid of the train station, living in a construction sight with beautiful black hair and lucious lips, but still tougher than any guy. It was sad seeing their stories. You should see it, everyone should.

[Moskitto]

Yeah, I don't think he was one of the 10 worst people of all time, but Romania was estimated to have the worst human rights record in Eastern Europe during his rule.