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Comment preview: It's also more or less true when revolutions throughout history are studied. The French had the guillotine, Romania put Nicolae Ceausescu in front of a firing squad, Iraq had brutal sectarian reprisals between Sunni and Shia factions when the removal of Ba ....
Comment preview: Not a professional historian, but I think I can shed some light on what happened in Romania. By the late 1980s, Romania under Nicolae Ceausescu became one of the most repressive regimes in the Eastern Bloc, arguably second only to North Korea in its brutal ....
Comment preview: Some info and background of the revolution: * The total number of deaths in the Romanian Revolution was 1,104. The number of wounded was 3,352. * In 1981, Ceau escu began an austerity program designed to enable Romania to liquidate its entire national debt ....
Comment preview: Oh man this so much. I go to a church that has sent millions of dollars to India in order to run orphanages for children with AIDs. (http://www.hohinc.org/) We have aid programs for people in India, Romania, the Congo, Liberia, Iran, Mexico, and a bunch of ....
Comment preview: **Romania** * [Mayor of R mnicu V lcea sentenced to 4 years in jail for corruption (50.000 euro bribe)](http://www1.digi24.ro/Stiri/Digi24/Actualitate/Justitie/Primarul+din+Ramnicu+Valcea+condamnat+la+4+ani+de+inchisoare+pen) * [Romanian Road Authority chi ....
Comment preview: In addition: - Marijuana is basically legal there. There is no law against planting it and its grown across the country side. - The country is basically known as a meth empire with government sponsored meth production and its reported that half of the popu ....
Comment preview: Romania. Let's talk about abortion. I was actually born just a scant few months after the fall of communism, and had I been conceived any later, my mother would have likely aborted me. In 1948 abortion was outlawed in Romania, only to be brought back in 19 ....
Comment preview: "The corrupt and brutal regime of President Ceausescu of Romania was infamous across the world. His ferocious government had run the country emphatically for many years, crushing any sings of dissent ruthlessly. In November 1989 he was re-elected President ....
Comment preview: They simply do not trust non-Roma Europeans. The gypsies have been the victim of persistent social exclusion and brutal suppression ever since they arrived in Europe in the 14th century. They were frequently expelled, at times they could be murdered with i ....
Comment preview: >Poles and Czechs and Lithuanians lived worse than the English and the French, but they still lived better than Russians. The Eastern Bloc was not comprised only by Poles, Czechs and Lithuanians. Not everybody lived a comfy life in Eastern Europe. As a ....
Comment preview: **I think you have to consider the prelude to the post-war years before framing your questions:** 1) USSR annexes Baltic states, forces Romania to give up Bessarabia with threat of invasion, invades Finland 2) USSR allies with Third Reich and invades Polan ....
Comment preview: This was soviet union. To get toilet paper you would have to bring old journals and newspapers (so called makulatura) to recycle and for that you would get funny toilet-paper-stamps (called talons) that you could exchange for toilet paper if there was any ....
Comment preview: I lived in Communist Romania under Ceausescu. I left in 1986 with my family amid worsening political and economic conditions as refugees. While in the 70's Romania was enjoying the benefits of improved education, infrastructure, world standing and increasi ....
Comment preview: Justice my ass.... A dictatorship is not one person or a couple, it's the entire entourage, high level politicians, military police, secret services, etc. They just killed these two persons and called it a day. Just look at what happened six months after t ....
Comment preview: I've been noticing a trend of people here making sociological/political science arguments here under the guise of historical argument. By trying to frame this as purely a matter of the ability to reference historical events without placing them in an argum ....
Comment preview: list 1: **Mud (IMDB rating: 7.5)** Two young boys encounter a fugitive and form a pact to help him evade the vigilantes that are on his trail and to reunite him with his true love. **Safety Not Guaranteed (IMDB rating: 7.1)** Three magazine employees head ....
Comment preview: Part three: We arrived in Media three days later than planned. The food, cooked just for us, still remains untouched on the kitchen table. Preserved for us. And our host claims insistently that she is full already, because the thin vegetable soup would li ....
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