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Rise of Ceaușescu - Romanian National-Communism

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Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video on the Rise of Ceaușescu, as he started implementing National-Communism in Romania.

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Sources:
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20 Comments

@ffffuchs 1 year ago

There was a joke about protochronism at the time:

German archeologists find thin long copper pieces in a dig, announce ancient Germans used copper wires.

French archelogists find strands of glass, announce ancient Gauls used fiber optics.

Romanian archeologists dig, dig, dig, but find nothing, so they announce ancient Dacians used wireless.

@InquisitorXarius 2 years ago (edited)

To say Romanian communism was schizophrenic is a understatement given Chauchechau’s policies and actions and him learning the worst possible lessons out of his friendship with Kim Ill-Sung.

Edit: When I said Chauchechau I mesnt Ceausescu

@KameradRossa 1 year ago

President Sukarno of Indonesia once said: "Internationalism cannot thrive, if it is not rooted in the soil of nationalism. Nationalism cannot thrive if it does not live in the garden of internationalism."

@ClassicFormulaOne1 1 year ago

Born in 1981 and I can clearly remember the execution of Ceausescu was on tv news around Christmas 1989. Im from the Netherlands.

@JZTC 1 year ago

Can't wait for the part about Ceausescu's absurd cult of personality. I wonder if you ever plan to cover the short-lived Karelo-Finnish SSR or in Soviet Karelia in general?

@DuranmanX 1 year ago

I want a video on Hoxha next and how he kept leapfrogging to more and more totalitarian governments

@mohammedsaysrashid3587 1 year ago

It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage episode about Romania 🇷🇴 during cold war years

@Nobuu98 1 year ago

Yay, finally a documentary about my country :D, thank you very much

@Rafael-e9g3f 1 year ago (edited)

Excellent timing!!I was reading about the life and policies of Ceausescu all week long!!

@Thinkofworldofficial 1 year ago

This video is amazing! What is truly heart-breaking is how high were the Romanian hopes in the beginning of Ceausescu’s regime for a prosperous and independent future, only to be shattered by his ego-maniacal shift in the 60s.

@ravenmaster2007 1 year ago

A major error. Romania did not adopt a neutral position regarding the Sino-Soviet Split. The 1964 document was unique in the sense that it was the only Soviet satelite in Europe that supported the Chinese point of vie. Romania did not adopt Maoism as Albania later did, but it firmly supported China in its dispute with the Kremlin.

@foobarf8766 1 year ago

Worked with a lovely dude who escaped this guy's regime, he didn't talk about it and I didn't press him to, you could tell there was trauma. Not everyone as lucky as him.

@elvenkind6072 1 year ago

I still remember I was allowed as a kid, to watch the news, when the Iron Curtain was finally falling, and we got a video clip to our news here in Norway, where I could see the Ceausescu couple, as grey corpses, with blood around them, after being shot next to a wall. I've always been thankful for my father to allow that, even if I was not yet very old, since it started probably there my interest in history and why things like that happened.

@henriklundin3842 1 year ago

Great episode but I think the tensions between the USSR and Romania during 1968 were heavily understated. Both Romania and the Soviet Union mobilized on either side of the border. Romanian army contingents on joint exercises in Central Asia were detained and put into camps where they had to stay for months. LBJ had to send Teddy Sorensen to Bucharest with the message ”Ceausescu better stop grandstanding or else everything is gonna blow up. The US is not going to help Czechoslovakia and sure as hell won’t come to Romania’s rescue.”

@AlecStanley 1 year ago

Good that you're finally addressing Romania as a subject. Will you be doing an episode on the Pitești Experiment?

@rriveranotario 1 year ago

I think another great topic for a future video is something there’s little info around, and even less videos: the euphemistically called Big Excursion by Bulgaria. Terrible stuff! The Revival Process and/or Bulgarization in general can be the main topic if that is too narrow a subject for a whole video

@Barricade379 1 year ago

Once again, The Cold War channel never fails👍👍

@Dan_Ctin 1 year ago

all was ok for communist Romania until 1970 when Ceausescu made 2 visits in China of Mao Zedong and especially in North Korea of Kim Ir Sen , he saw the cult of personality there and he was brainwashed and very influenced by Mao and Kim ...when he returned back ,he implemented the north korean style of government in Romania , and from there all was lost here, 1980-1989 period was so bad...everything collapsed

@Numba003 1 year ago

This was very interesting; thank you. I know very little about Romania in general, but I know almost nothing about its communist period. I look forward to future videos on the topic!
God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)