I was released from Securitate (KGB in Rumania) prison 13th Dec 1989 after kept prisoned for 18 months with no trial! I was accused for being spy with no evidence! After 35 yrs I still can't believe that I survived....
@ @ and you think it’s smarter to replace them with an insane person ? At least this “ criminals” that you and your parents elected them for over 30 years keep Romania in EU and NATO . Do you think we , the people who are against Georgescu elected PSD for 35 years ? No , it was you . Shooting yourselves in the foot electing the pro Russian people doesn’t solve the psd problem, it makes it ten time worse . You logic is beyond comprehension. It’s the same people who voted bad all their lives , went from FSN, PSDR, PSD ,and now AUR , POT and SOS . Intelligent people never elected those people .
@cepterus56 Romania has gotten a LOT better post-Ceausescu. Although some of them are probably still in power. I also recommend watching the 1990 Ted Koppel news report "The Death of a Dictator" about Ceausescu. It's on RUclips.
@@VladVlad-ul1io ne spune să nu ajungem slugi la ruși, aia ne spune. Cu UE ești partener, nu ești sluga lor. Dacă tu sau ăla de mai sus sunteți in stare să fiți doar slugi, nu e vina UE.
In december '89, I was 18 y.o. I was on the street of my hometown, Bucharest. I remember that days. A good griend of mine was shot deadly by a guy whitout uniform, with a pistol. I will never forget that! ..after 35 years, I still remember what I live in that days. That friend died at 19 y.o. After all this years...I see comunists are still there, deep inside in some politicians! Look at this election from 2024! SHAME!!!! ... from Coronado/CA. USA. Claudiu Frantz Pârvulescu, former MCPON/ NSWC, OIF OEF OND veteran. God Bless everyone. God Bless Romanian people, Romanian Army Force! 🇷🇴🇺🇲🇺🇲🔱⚓🦈⚓🔱🇺🇲🇺🇲🇷🇴
Thank you for being there- a true hero. And condolences for your friend, we will never forget their sacrifice. I was only a child, but I am grateful to all of you, brave heroes
Salut, mulțumim pentru mărturie! Te contactez din partea Turului Revoluției din 1989, un proiect de cercetare și prezentare a evenimentelor. Ne poți spune cine este băiatul ucis de civil, te rugăm.
The saddest thing is that who took over was PSD, formal communists from the same regime, the King tried to return but he was kicked out because they knew if the legitimate leader would return, there would be no turning back...
The idiotic name of the video)) this is not a "revolution", but a counter-revolution - from the progressive socialist system to the capitalist 19th century!)))
My father was 18 in 89 and he fhigt in Bucharest to protect the television bulding He stay outside for six day and sleep in trenches for me and for all Romanian to be free
protect it from whom? de cine ma fiu de erou ce esti tu ? de cine o aparat-o ? de tanti Ileana de la parter? sau de nea Vasilica de la etaju 2? mars la club si lasa discutiile astea.
This is the first revolution that was, to contradict Gil-Scott Heron, televised. I found myself sobbing through the middle stretch of this last night. I recall watching CNN in 1989 on Christmas and how enormous a surprise the Romanian revolution was, but even more surprised in 2024 that the same footage provoked me to tears. It's absolutely gripping reportage from ITN crews who were very clearly in physical danger themselves, and they did such a heroic job capturing the courage of ordinary Romanians that week.
This was a coup.... it was staged to have many victims. Electronic warfare, "soldiers" wearing multiple uniform layers, confusion through the roof and uneducated masses led to that..... Many videos on this platform to point towards that.
Nicaragua in '78/'79 too. One of my high school teammates visited home during summer vacation '78 and told us he saw people just break out automatic rifles and start shooting at each other. He didn't go back the following summer.
The idiotic name of the video)) this is not a "revolution", but a counter-revolution - from the progressive socialist system to the capitalist 19th century!)))
I was 19 years old, I was in front of the City Hall in town of Arad, before december the 22nd, before the army joined the people, we didn't know what it would happend next but we wanted freedom so bad, we didn't care anymore, we were frightened but thirsty for change.... I left Romania shortly after and never looked back. Some people died for the others to be free... and what did they do to that country? After 35 years... things are not as they should be. I hope those who died, didn't die in vain! Peace to their souls! Watching this today, still bring tears to my eyes!
In the long term for many it does not look like a revolution, but rather like a coup d'état. The West kept our country under embargo because the dictator" didn't want to lead a colony that would borrow senselessly $ and be indebted to large Western corporations (in case there are still baboons who don't understand why we didn't have bananas or jeans)... Now we are free and in debt, we export almost all of our people to cheep labor oudise and suck the socks off those in the West. Democracy here is a joke, whenever someone who shouldn't" be there get huge votes... the vote is canceled, whenever someone wants something for Romania... they are hit by the old securitatea" what have now other names". Free, but not really democracy but not really and in debt and without a future, without discussion.
The "Tiananmen Massacre" on June 4, 1989 provided the Romanian dictator Ceausescu with a model for how to suppress opposition. However, the "Tiananmen experience" did not work well in Romania and Eastern Europe.
@MoMoIsInHell Romania was very isolated in December 1989, all the other communist regimes in Eastern Europa had already fallen and even Gorbatchev in the Soviet Union was against Ceaușescu. Even Moldova was more open than Romania at this point of time, also Yugoslavia, Hungary anyway. So Romania was surrounded and media and information spilled over into the country. At the same time Romania was in its deepest economic crisis ever since WWII. Even people within the nomenclatura didn't support the situation anymore, or their own children were trying to run away from the country.
@@ekesandras1481 very nice description, but what this has to do with the fact that Europeans aren't build to tolerate dictatorships whilst Chinese are tolerating it very well
23:17 what about ALL other martyrs around the country?? We, my sister 13yo and I as a 14yo, marched on the streets of Resita for ALL romanians not for Timișoara and Bucharest only. My father, a ferocious anti-comunist fought against the regime and was part of rallying the movement in Reșița, had a friend shot in front of him 😢, a martyr How insulting to even say that!!
La acel moment nu știau de cei uciși în alte orașe. Asta e explicația. În rest, bineînțeles că toți eroii merită respect: și cei uciși, și cei rămași în viață.
It's clear the Revolution was used to incite chaos, all the shooting and overplaying of how many people dying leading to many questions unanswered and the same corrupt politicians putting on a mask clinging on to power
Asbolutely fascinating! I love how authoratitive, factual and well-dressed all the reporters look and sound back then. Penny Marshall was - and still is - a class act.
I have to smile about the WW2 Dutch infantry helmets the Romanian soldiers were still wearing at that time. It was the only country that adopted that helmet apart from The Netherlands before 1940.
And the new Romanian generation are ready to throw all that sacrifice away by voting Georgescu ,an insane person who wants to bring Romania back to those times . I was there , I did that and now I’m super mad at this new Romanian ignorance . This nation is cursed to repeat same mistakes , a leader in self destruction and electing freely against their best interests. It’s disturbing
I was a college student when this was happening, we thought the world would be boring soon because we were moving past authoritarian governments. I can't understand the appeal of this new breed of fear mongering populist would be autocrats. Saddens me to my bones.
you ignorant man, Calin Georgescu does not want to bring you back there, it wants to avoid war with russia, which is where you would go if is not the winner, your people, your young men will die in the front lines, your country will be just like ukraine if he is not elected, but you refuse to understand, eventually you will, once you will be forced drafted and taken from your house to the front lines... then you will say "Calin was kind of a better choice"
Pai asta e realitatea bai Gigi duru, disperarea a adus oamenii in starea asta, s-au saturat de tot furtul asta, nu aveam opțiuni. Mereu trebuie sa alegem raul mai mic
There isn't a good choice. Choose poverty brought by migration and policies like in the west or choose poverty from Russia. Both means decline and cancer
For somebody who wasn't heavily involved into the system at that time... It was quite hard if not impossible to learn English. I'm saying what I've heard from the old folks. So... It's nice to see young romanians "revolutionary" articulating more than decent English. ;)
That's a load of rubbish. English was taught in schools, just not as frequently as today. My father spoke English pretty well, he learned it in school. Still have a couple of commie era English language text books, one called "Learn English without a teacher". I'd have to check, but I think it's from the late '60s or early '70s. So no, it wasn't "quite hard or impossible". It was doable if you had any actual interest in learning it which, I gather, the old people you spoke to didn't have. Even today Romania ranks low in Europe in terms of foreign language proficiency.
@@razvanmazilu6284 what you're saying is rubbish. Many people learned Russian back then, my parents included. And the young generation speaks mostly decent English. I'm pretty sure better than in countries like Italy or Portugal, where even in capital cities many will tell you they don't speak English when asked
Înainte de 1989 în şcoală se învăţau preponderent limbile franceză şi rusă. Eu am învăţat limba engleză parţial în acea perioadă de pe casetele video traduse.
What is very telling is that after a few initial reports ITN appears to have made a decision not to mention that the popular discontent and ultimate revolution was not just against Ceausescu but against communism. Romania was depicted as a Ceausescuan dictatorship that began in 1965 when he took the place of the preceding communist dictator Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej when he died. Things were no better from the beginning of the communist dictatorship in 1947, the repressions were no less severe, human rights violations and police terror were part and parcel of communist rule from when they manipulated the elections to take power in Romania. Concentration camps were built already the, tens of thousands were arrested and many executed. So, the Romanian revolution was foremost an anti communist revolution, in spite of ITN's efforts (BBC's also) to minimize that aspect.
I was just a year old when the Romanian Revolution began in my hometown of Timișoara. Growing up, my parents made sure I understood the horrors of living under communism; reminding me daily of the nightmare it was. This is why I am deeply pro-Western and staunchly capitalist. It is a conviction I intend to pass on to my future children, ensuring that they, too, understand Romania’s path must never veer back toward the Russian sphere of influence. It is disheartening that less than 40 years after communism's fall, some Romanians have been misled into adopting anti-Western views. To me, this is a betrayal of the sacrifices made during the revolution and the progress we’ve fought so hard to achieve. We owe it to ourselves and future generations to stand firm against this regression. Either we are western, or we perish.
You're a very wise person. Funny how all the pro communist young ppl never want to move to Cuba, North Vietnam, China, Laos or North Korea. The far left has created nothing but chaos in the US. I despise them
Viitorilor tai copii? Poate sti ca acum in ,,libertate'' natalitatea este la cele mai scazute cote, iar rata divorturilor si numarul familiilor destramate sunt ridicate.
@ Asta nu înseamnă că ar trebui să susținem candidați anti-occidentali. Rata scăzută a natalității este o provocare pentru întreaga lume dezvoltată, nu doar pentru România. Chiar îți dorești ca România să revină la vremurile în care copiii abandonați ai lui Ceaușescu umpleau străzile? Eu, cu siguranță, nu. Astăzi, în sfera occidentală, România prosperă mai mult decât în orice alt moment al istoriei sale. Vorbim chiar o limbă occidentală, una cu rădăcini latine. Locul nostru este ferm în Occident, iar să ne întoarcem împotriva acestuia ar fi o trădare monstruoasă a națiunii noastre.
@@aurelianida4805 asa si? ce treaba are cu Ceausescu? Stii (apropo se scrie cu 2 de i) ca ciorile sunt negre si smoala la fel...ce legatura or avea una cu alta numai Dumnezeu stie. Te las pe tine sa te prinzi.
@@daciaromana2396 pro Western, capitalist, you must be an utter idiot saying that, like there was nothing else besides communism - capitalism BS, all invented at the West anyway.... especially you should learn what your parents apparently never taught you that communism was invented by those german j€ws and then transferred to Russian Empire to destroy Russia!
I hope that Romanians that want to vote for Georgescu get a chance to watch this movie and undestand it. I was 11 years old and living in Arad when this happened. Stay strong Romania!
I was in Yugoslavia in Belgrade demonstrated in front the Romania embassy , the all emigrant screaming and cry I hold my son in my arms he was 1 and 3 month inside the boxes say down ceausescu free Romania all the camera in front of us take picture of my son and his father ,the next day we are front Paige in the news all over Europe news , I wish I tell some reporter how I crose the river Danube with one little baby ,in 23 march 1989 and how much I suffer my god how much I suffer
I was 14 yrs old in December 1989, but have not seen this until today, 35 years from the Romanian uprising that led to the fall of Ceausescu's regime. Today it is clear that the second line of communist activists organised the killing of so many innocent people to justify their coming into power. For foreign people, be aware that the Revolution trial has been sent back to first court for several times, showing the complicity of the justice system in hiding the responsible persons. This is a shame and spit on the graveyards of the Romanian heroes who gave their lives for freedom and democracy. We will never forget them, but we also won't forgive the Securitate people and their sons and daughters who, to this day, are some of the wealthiest people and hold some of the most powerful positions in Romania.
I remember the victors write history not the losers and ivin so it have bin 35 years since then , the commies are still leading the countries and now in 2024 the SRI and politiceni lui peste prajit l-au fost frica , fear of change and losing POWER
Oh look, a Russian troll who coincidentally joined RUclips at the moment when Ukraine was brutally invaded. Nice use of a "Western" name, to lend your propaganda an air of authenticity. @hazelwray4184
Regardless of the former Eastern Bloc country, the soldiers of each country's army looked the same...as they did in 1945, which only shows the state of their economies.
Those are conscrips. One year forced army. They were never trained to do anything, I can guarantee you none of them ever fired lived amo prior to this. I can assure you the ones from the military police securitate were trained and equipped. They had snipers and were permanent paid soldiers, not conscrips. It's the same in Russia now. Look at their conscrips. It's not necessarily about being a poor country, Russia its not poor. They just added more pouches to their military and got them to pay for their own bullet vest, and that's the improvement. It's about the military style, Russia and their satelite states relied on cannon fodder soldiers. No need to pay for training or equipment if you're using them as cannon fodder
@@elenabibescu1848first time I hear of such a claim that Yugoslavia attempted to have Romania split apart. Do you have any reading material on that particular topic to share?
Thank you very much for this documetary! It is an absolute treasure. We are used to see images, footage and details about the revolution from the inside, from our local televion, from our own people. It is very very intresting to find out how the revolution has been seen from the outside. This documentary really helps broaden our view and understand our past. Thank you once again for sharing these valuable details about our own history!
O mascaradă că doar la noi se putea întâmpla, ne-am omorât între noi,,civili cu arme care trăgeau în alți civil crezîndui teroriști și pe care nu ia interogat nimeni,este un filmuleț cu unul care are o banderolă roșie pe frunte ca Rambo trage gagiul ca in codru nici el nu știe în cine trage sau în cine a tras dar era revolutionar,o mizerie de "revoluție "care a luat suflete nevinovate și o nație însetată de sîngele propriu,75% din populația de la țară în 2024 au rămas blocați în 89 adică ușor de influențat și ușor de manipulat
Nu le mai spune adevarul, oamenii vor sa creada ca a fost o revolutie nu o lovitura de stat........ Adica ce rahat, in Aprilie '89 Ceasca anunta ca Romania nu mai are datorie internationala nici in dolari si nici in ruble si in Decembrie moare :) Pana si Ceasca le-a zis-o in timpul procesului dar au editat :) Tot procesul e pe RUclips acum la vedere :) Cica era prost lol
Va recomand cartea lui Andrei Ursu - CADEREA UNUI DICTATOR. Acolo e un imens probatoriu despre ceea ce s-a intamplat cu adevarat la revolutie. Nu s-a tras la intamplare.
Sadly, my romanian people didnt learned almost anything in all these years. Mainly `cause our education system doesnt`t want to change, still forming ppl in comunist mentality.
Thank you for this documentary. Even though I live in Romania I didn't know about Ceausescu's palace in Timisoara. The interviews with the guards at his palace were very interesting.
I have seen lately ppl from Romania regretting the Ceausescu era,I missed the revolution left the country with my family in December 1984.R I P the victims of the revolution.
Yeah, some people regretted just few years after his death, elderly who were left with a poor pension and people in poverty. They had no freedom or western products, but there was free housing and free medical care, pensioners had annual thermal spa holidays etc. Now they have freedom, but access to housing it's a dream far away and they have all the products in the world, but not enough money. People's primary needs (housing) will always take precedent over secondary needs (freedom), hence why they long for communism. Or you can ask them why, this is the standard answer. You'll never hear anything about regret from someone who has a decent lifestyle, never. I always let a tear out looking at the bravery and determination of the youth of 1989 and will never stop being grateful for their sacrifice and courage
It depends on who are you talking to. While some regions in the country have greatly developed after the revolution, mainly Transilvania and Bucharest, others have been left severely depleted and with close-to-no hopes of improvements. Take for example the Jiu Valley and Southern Romania, whose mines and factories have been left to rot with no other job alternatives. It's quite nuanced.
@MoMoIsInHell LOL @ free housing. There was no free housing. You had to enroll and wait for months and years for even a small apartament, and it wasn't where you wanted to live with proper conditions, it was where the communist party wanted you to live. As for "free medical care" just an example: romanian women had zero access to medical services for abortions.
Thanks for sharing. I remember hearing this on Radio Bucharest on my shortwave radio in 1989 in Florida. That day, I declared my independence from all political parties
Pentru că așa au nevoie în mintea lor sa ne separe de ei cei din vest, asa făceau și romanii cu popoarele cu care se luptau, e mai usor sa îți bați joc de alți oameni dacă ii descrii ca diferiți fata de tine.
@@binescuae Știi și tu ca nu e vb de etnie aici, e vorba de stereotipul cu care alegi sa prezinți o națiune, asa cum au făcut și francezii, exemple: Istoricul jignirilor aduce de francezi: ”Feriți-vă de hoții de bagaje români din trenuri”, ”minunile țiganilor din România la CM 1994”, ”ciocnirea dintre culturi cu țiganii virtuoși” titlu libertatea!
Incredible, the last two weeks of December 1989 was truly transformative in terms of world history. Two years ago when I was living in Germany, I befriended a Romanian lady of about my age (were both in the mid-40s) and we both related to each other our experiences of those two weeks. She was a young girl who experienced the Romanian Revolution and I was a 12 year old American boy who experienced "Operation Just Cause" in Panama and witnessed the downfall of Noriega.
........and after 35 years, same PSD ( the ☭ comunist party , under new leters ) , are again in Government , despite the decision been made by Timișoara ' s heroes. Timișoara's Proclamation , was never allowed in Bucharest. That is why they delayed for decades, the 1989 Revolution Process of Investigation as to whom ordered , after 21st of December , the shooting . Many that lived those times, know that Iliescu ( that assumed the powers, by force ) ; hence casualties escalated from merely 450 , nationwide, to 1.166 deaths.
I remarked the same thing.. how she spoke.. a real politician… now look where uk is today: they banned the word “christmas” in london to no offend muslims. Insted of Christmas market they built Winter markets .. unreal…
Uk was involved in Ceausescu's assassination, it was planned a civil war for splitting Romania, Hungary was also involved because it wanted Transylvania.
I was in Rumania in 1987-1991 visiting my parents. During the protests one small boy was running with his mother and suddenly fell. He had been hit by a bullet fired from a Securitate officer. His mother began wailing but was hit seconds later. It was horrible.
Awful times but when Romania overthrew him that shouldn’t have meant do the exact opposite as him and sell off everything and instead have half our country work in Germany to make a living, and bend over for large powers at the same time
😢 I really hope that this documentary reaches all the young fans of communism. Congratulations 🎉 more videos like this! Help the ones who don't know that communism, extremism and nationalism serves only a handful of people
I randomly chose 1:11:15 and started laughing so hard at this piece of propaganda. nobody was shooting anyone for celebrating Christmas. Romanians were celebrating Christmas, now they're celebrating Xmas.
Mother of my children is from Romania and you wouldn't believe the things I've heard from her, her 11 siblings and parents about living in Romania under Ceaușescu and Iliescu, the first elected president of Romania who halted the development of Romanian democracy and kept everything in society more or less the same as they were during the Ceaușescu regime. It was only after the revolution that a lot of Romanians became refugees because of political persecution or emigrates to Europe & USA. So Romanians had to wait for the democracy, associated freedoms & liberties and basic human rights until 1996 when Emil Constantinescu won the election despite the attempted election fraud by Iliescu's government by disqualifying over million votes. Luckily for Romania and Romanians Iliescu acted lawfully like democratically elected leaders should when he was elected again in 2000.
to you it might sound outrageous but if you would like to hit the right kind of audience you would make the effforts to translate the lines to romanian, as those events happened in romania not in the united kingdom. All these english floating all around doesn't help the people who, in theory, you would like to understand what all the people are saying. it's a very wonderful feeling to wake up in the morning living in your bubble of safe haven but it would be trully helpful for YOURSELF to wake up and check reality for a change, that is if the ignorance in which you are living is too much to bear or if you want to form human bonds with other people from ROMANIA. NOW it is your responsiblity to fight for those european rights you are so much talking nowadays. may mercy find those who are righteous
Dodgy things happened in literally 12 months because all the Eastern European countries collapsed. Thanks for this archive footage...we've not seen this on Romanian TV.
What’s funnier to me is that more Romanians back then spoke english than they do now 😂, a country so anti-west/east, so isolated, yet everyone and their grandmas knew a word or 2 of english
You're pretty misinformed then. People were allowed to learn a second international language of their choice. Surprisingly, not that many chose Russian , but French, German and English. And also, we have more English speakers in average than probably any other eastern European country right now as allot of us were raised with no dubs no subtitles Cartoon Network and stuff after the Revolution.
@@RomaniaOverpowered Hmmm, poate? Stiu ca nu am mai trait in Romania de 15 ani, dar am facut 4 ani de scoala in Romania si imi aduc aminte ca nu multe lume era... inebunita cu engleza, poate lucrurile s-au schimbat acum, nu am mai vizitat tara de 6 ani, aproape 7.
@@gojo76 ai sa fi surprinsa daca revii si aflii defapt cat de multa 'romengleza' se vorbeste. Daca ai fi sa te dai straina si ai pleca prin bucuresti sau alt oras mare din Romania, cu multi ai putea purta o simpla conversatie sau mai mult, prin simplul fapt ca noi consumam foarte multa media pe limba engleza, si ca este si obligatoriu ca copiilor sa invete engleza la scoala, intr-un mod relativ ok, ceea ce sporeste cunostiintele despre engleza, ii drept ca nu prea am fi cei mai buni in a comunica intr-un accest ok, dar comentariul tau initial, nu prea are logica, fiindca adresezi asta ca find un fapt, cand defapt nici tu nu esti 100% pe ce vorbesti, si dovedesti si asta, si daca vezi si prin comentarii, majoritatea isi spun parerile si experientele in engleza.
55:05 🤣🤣🤣 "subminarea economiei naționale" Ce mizerie! România nu avea nici o datorie în 1989, avea industrie și agricultură. Acum, în 2024, România este plină de datorii de miliarde de euro, a rămas fără industrie iar agricultura e vândută altora, străini. În 35 de ani a fost vândut aproape tot, cedate resursele naturale ale țării iar populația a migrat să muncească în occident muncile cele mai grele și plătite la salarii mult mai mici decât cele ale rezidenților, munci care occidentalii nu mai voiau să le facă. România a fost spoliată după "revolutie"! Revoluție care a fost lovitură de stat dată cu concursul forțelor din vest cât și din est.
Nu avea industrie. Industria era la pamant. Falimentara. Toti banii s-au dus spre plata datoriei externe si nu s-a mai investit nimic in industrie. Fabricile era u cu tehnologie din anii '60 si nu mai produceau nimic de calitate. In agricultura,a cuma se produce de trei ori mai mult decat pe vremea aia chiar si cu cifrele umflate de atunci. Vorbesti si tu din auzite
Industria produce cu cel putin 75% mai mult decat in anii 80. Agricultura vanduta? Suntem printre cei mai mari exportatori din UE. Stii economie cum stiu eu balet.
@Cornelbananau pey, văd că nu înțelegi ceea ce citești! Marea agricultură nu mai aparține românilor!!!!! Industria cui?! Fabricile și uzinele ROMÂNEȘTI, s-au vândut la fier vechi!
The problem with communism is that the head of state believes that he/she can do whatever he/she likes. On the other hand, they have ambitions (Stalin’s Five-Year Plans or Mao’s Great Leap Forward) that sound great in theory but don’t work in practice.
DEAR BBC news 1989 I was interviewed by 3 reporter in camping cotsuniac in former Yugoslavia , how I can't get the tape to show my grad children and my son he was only 1 year and 2 month ,
this is called a coup and it had nothing to do with romanians other than it happened in Romania. Is true there were romanians involved too but they were acting in sheeple capacity.
what did you find in shops, supermarkets, pharmacies in the last 80's? Such as disposable diapers for babies (Pampers or other brands of diapers), cosmetic products, soaps, perfumes. I ask for this information because I do not know how they used diapers on babies before the fall of the regime.
I like how 50% of this video is only about the fortunate one's that didn't live in Romania at the time, and 25% is about people that were put in chair by the regime (press dir.). You could do better.
I was home on leave from West Berlin when this happened. This was a perfect example of people power supported by the Army and police to rid their country of a parasite leader and government. Bravo all that took part, BRAVO!
Those days I remember, it was snowy X-mas and i watched this revolution from TV. Student during those days. I was in Bucarest 1997, I visited Caicescu"s palace and so on. Care de Nord was horribele place, full of criminals.
Remember this, Reverend Laszlo Tokes, was the Ethnic Hungarian in Transylvania, who organised the protest and the Rebellion against Ceaușescu and his Regime.
30.000 russian "tourists" in that period , they came to visit the beauties of Romania (december 1989) why is not usual this number ? , never were recorded this number of russian tourists in other months , maybe just 400-500 , and then suddenly 30 K in december 1989 ! this is not so... suspicious ?!
I was released from Securitate (KGB in Rumania) prison 13th Dec 1989 after kept prisoned for 18 months with no trial! I was accused for being spy with no evidence! After 35 yrs I still can't believe that I survived....
@bro5800 You are still a spy. I see you trolling all over. YANKEE GO HOME......
Din ce țara iești ?
@@CobraNeagră-h3f Iran
Bulgaria sau Ukraina , wild guess
@@CobraNeagră-h3f nu stie. Nu e român.
As a 28 year old romanian , I hear some info from this documentary for the first time.Why arent we taught this in school or media?
The Internet has much to give than what your Schools or your Local Media has.
And you are still going to vote Georgescu because you look but don’t understand anything
Because the same criminals are still in power !
@ @ and you think it’s smarter to replace them with an insane person ? At least this “ criminals” that you and your parents elected them for over 30 years keep Romania in EU and NATO . Do you think we , the people who are against Georgescu elected PSD for 35 years ? No , it was you . Shooting yourselves in the foot electing the pro Russian people doesn’t solve the psd problem, it makes it ten time worse . You logic is beyond comprehension. It’s the same people who voted bad all their lives , went from FSN, PSDR, PSD ,and now AUR , POT and SOS . Intelligent people never elected those people .
@cepterus56 Romania has gotten a LOT better post-Ceausescu. Although some of them are probably still in power.
I also recommend watching the 1990 Ted Koppel news report "The Death of a Dictator" about Ceausescu. It's on RUclips.
Romanians today should watch this before they choose their president..
Adică ce vrei sa spui bă?
L-au ales pe țiganul jidan Ion Iy
@@DragosMihaiMazilu ca e vrea presedinta gay pro islam si sluga a UE
@@VladVlad-ul1ioor worse, Putins errand boy
@@VladVlad-ul1io ne spune să nu ajungem slugi la ruși, aia ne spune. Cu UE ești partener, nu ești sluga lor. Dacă tu sau ăla de mai sus sunteți in stare să fiți doar slugi, nu e vina UE.
In december '89, I was 18 y.o.
I was on the street of my hometown, Bucharest.
I remember that days.
A good griend of mine was shot deadly by a guy whitout uniform, with a pistol.
I will never forget that!
..after 35 years, I still remember what I live in that days.
That friend died at 19 y.o.
After all this years...I see comunists are still there, deep inside in some politicians!
Look at this election from 2024!
SHAME!!!!
... from Coronado/CA.
USA.
Claudiu Frantz Pârvulescu, former MCPON/ NSWC, OIF OEF OND veteran.
God Bless everyone.
God Bless Romanian people, Romanian Army Force!
🇷🇴🇺🇲🇺🇲🔱⚓🦈⚓🔱🇺🇲🇺🇲🇷🇴
No worries Caludiu, Le reparăm.
Thank you for being there- a true hero. And condolences for your friend, we will never forget their sacrifice.
I was only a child, but I am grateful to all of you, brave heroes
Salut, mulțumim pentru mărturie! Te contactez din partea Turului Revoluției din 1989, un proiect de cercetare și prezentare a evenimentelor. Ne poți spune cine este băiatul ucis de civil, te rugăm.
Va mulțumesc 😊❤RESPECT ARMATEI ROMÂNIEI 😊
A fost securist cel care a tras, securistii au omorat multi mai multi oameni decat armata la Revolutie.
The saddest thing is that who took over was PSD, formal communists from the same regime,
the King tried to return but he was kicked out because they knew if the legitimate leader would return,
there would be no turning back...
it is a shame they didn't let the king in
Margaret Thacher and Queen of Britain didn't weigh in? ohhh...
What @@prostytroll
The idiotic name of the video)) this is not a "revolution", but a counter-revolution - from the progressive socialist system to the capitalist 19th century!)))
My father was 18 in 89 and he fhigt in Bucharest to protect the television bulding
He stay outside for six day and sleep in trenches for me and for all Romanian to be free
Mulțumim tatălui tău pentru curaj și tot ce a făcut!
And "Free " you are correct
Au fost chemati sa fie imouscati. Tu nu intelegi ca ei erau tradatorii , aia din balcon. A avut arma sau cu bratele goale.
protect it from whom? de cine ma fiu de erou ce esti tu ? de cine o aparat-o ? de tanti Ileana de la parter? sau de nea Vasilica de la etaju 2? mars la club si lasa discutiile astea.
@@elenabibescu1848 a tras in oameni. si-a tradat poporul. nu voia nimeni sa cucereasca nimic. nu a fost niciun erou.
This is the first revolution that was, to contradict Gil-Scott Heron, televised.
I found myself sobbing through the middle stretch of this last night. I recall watching CNN in 1989 on Christmas and how enormous a surprise the Romanian revolution was, but even more surprised in 2024 that the same footage provoked me to tears. It's absolutely gripping reportage from ITN crews who were very clearly in physical danger themselves, and they did such a heroic job capturing the courage of ordinary Romanians that week.
The singer Gil scott heron? Strange connection, would have never imagined it.
This was a coup.... it was staged to have many victims. Electronic warfare, "soldiers" wearing multiple uniform layers, confusion through the roof and uneducated masses led to that..... Many videos on this platform to point towards that.
the Iranian revolution was also televised, even the Cuban revolution but probably the first one to be filmed and broadcast live to a big degree
Nicaragua in '78/'79 too.
One of my high school teammates visited home during summer vacation '78 and told us he saw people just break out automatic rifles and start shooting at each other. He didn't go back the following summer.
The idiotic name of the video)) this is not a "revolution", but a counter-revolution - from the progressive socialist system to the capitalist 19th century!)))
I was 19 years old, I was in front of the City Hall in town of Arad, before december the 22nd, before the army joined the people, we didn't know what it would happend next but we wanted freedom so bad, we didn't care anymore, we were frightened but thirsty for change.... I left Romania shortly after and never looked back.
Some people died for the others to be free... and what did they do to that country? After 35 years... things are not as they should be. I hope those who died, didn't die in vain! Peace to their souls!
Watching this today, still bring tears to my eyes!
In the long term for many it does not look like a revolution, but rather like a coup d'état. The West kept our country under embargo because the dictator" didn't want to lead a colony that would borrow senselessly $ and be indebted to large Western corporations (in case there are still baboons who don't understand why we didn't have bananas or jeans)... Now we are free and in debt, we export almost all of our people to cheep labor oudise and suck the socks off those in the West. Democracy here is a joke, whenever someone who shouldn't" be there get huge votes... the vote is canceled, whenever someone wants something for Romania... they are hit by the old securitatea" what have now other names". Free, but not really democracy but not really and in debt and without a future, without discussion.
The "Tiananmen Massacre" on June 4, 1989 provided the Romanian dictator Ceausescu with a model for how to suppress opposition. However, the "Tiananmen experience" did not work well in Romania and Eastern Europe.
not really the massacre was conducted by western powers .
No. Europeans never do well with dictatorships. We aren't build for that
@MoMoIsInHell Romania was very isolated in December 1989, all the other communist regimes in Eastern Europa had already fallen and even Gorbatchev in the Soviet Union was against Ceaușescu. Even Moldova was more open than Romania at this point of time, also Yugoslavia, Hungary anyway. So Romania was surrounded and media and information spilled over into the country. At the same time Romania was in its deepest economic crisis ever since WWII. Even people within the nomenclatura didn't support the situation anymore, or their own children were trying to run away from the country.
@@ekesandras1481 very nice description, but what this has to do with the fact that Europeans aren't build to tolerate dictatorships whilst Chinese are tolerating it very well
@MoMoIsInHellwhat are you talking about Europe has turned into an absolute dump under left wing dictators
23:17 what about ALL other martyrs around the country??
We, my sister 13yo and I as a 14yo, marched on the streets of Resita for ALL romanians not for Timișoara and Bucharest only. My father, a ferocious anti-comunist fought against the regime and was part of rallying the movement in Reșița, had a friend shot in front of him 😢, a martyr
How insulting to even say that!!
La acel moment nu știau de cei uciși în alte orașe. Asta e explicația. În rest, bineînțeles că toți eroii merită respect: și cei uciși, și cei rămași în viață.
It's clear the Revolution was used to incite chaos, all the shooting and overplaying of how many people dying leading to many questions unanswered and the same corrupt politicians putting on a mask clinging on to power
Asbolutely fascinating! I love how authoratitive, factual and well-dressed all the reporters look and sound back then. Penny Marshall was - and still is - a class act.
Just liers
@@TPNST liars about what?
@@charliezobel511 what’s your interest in finding out?
I have to smile about the WW2 Dutch infantry helmets the Romanian soldiers were still wearing at that time. It was the only country that adopted that helmet apart from The Netherlands before 1940.
They were shooting each other, many innocent people died for nothing. It was the saddest thing ever.
This is the sad part that nobody understands or understood at that time, everything was planned perfectly, Romania had to fall and their plan worked.
@@Tpiqal CIA was involved, they planned a civil war, between army and secret police. The president diet for save Romania, This is the truth.
And the new Romanian generation are ready to throw all that sacrifice away by voting Georgescu ,an insane person who wants to bring Romania back to those times . I was there , I did that and now I’m super mad at this new Romanian ignorance . This nation is cursed to repeat same mistakes , a leader in self destruction and electing freely against their best interests. It’s disturbing
I was a college student when this was happening, we thought the world would be boring soon because we were moving past authoritarian governments. I can't understand the appeal of this new breed of fear mongering populist would be autocrats. Saddens me to my bones.
you ignorant man, Calin Georgescu does not want to bring you back there, it wants to avoid war with russia, which is where you would go if is not the winner, your people, your young men will die in the front lines, your country will be just like ukraine if he is not elected, but you refuse to understand, eventually you will, once you will be forced drafted and taken from your house to the front lines... then you will say "Calin was kind of a better choice"
Thats what democracy is, people have coice, he might be insane for but not to me.
Pai asta e realitatea bai Gigi duru, disperarea a adus oamenii in starea asta, s-au saturat de tot furtul asta, nu aveam opțiuni. Mereu trebuie sa alegem raul mai mic
There isn't a good choice. Choose poverty brought by migration and policies like in the west or choose poverty from Russia.
Both means decline and cancer
For somebody who wasn't heavily involved into the system at that time... It was quite hard if not impossible to learn English. I'm saying what I've heard from the old folks. So... It's nice to see young romanians "revolutionary" articulating more than decent English. ;)
Good point of view ❤👍
Vorbeam tonţi nativ engleza pe atunci 😍🥰
That's a load of rubbish. English was taught in schools, just not as frequently as today. My father spoke English pretty well, he learned it in school. Still have a couple of commie era English language text books, one called "Learn English without a teacher". I'd have to check, but I think it's from the late '60s or early '70s. So no, it wasn't "quite hard or impossible". It was doable if you had any actual interest in learning it which, I gather, the old people you spoke to didn't have. Even today Romania ranks low in Europe in terms of foreign language proficiency.
@@razvanmazilu6284 what you're saying is rubbish. Many people learned Russian back then, my parents included. And the young generation speaks mostly decent English. I'm pretty sure better than in countries like Italy or Portugal, where even in capital cities many will tell you they don't speak English when asked
Înainte de 1989 în şcoală se învăţau preponderent limbile franceză şi rusă.
Eu am învăţat limba engleză parţial în acea perioadă de pe casetele video traduse.
Thanks to AI. Very few romanian people spoke English in 1989
What is very telling is that after a few initial reports ITN appears to have made a decision not to mention that the popular discontent and ultimate revolution was not just against Ceausescu but against communism. Romania was depicted as a Ceausescuan dictatorship that began in 1965 when he took the place of the preceding communist dictator Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej when he died. Things were no better from the beginning of the communist dictatorship in 1947, the repressions were no less severe, human rights violations and police terror were part and parcel of communist rule from when they manipulated the elections to take power in Romania. Concentration camps were built already the, tens of thousands were arrested and many executed. So, the Romanian revolution was foremost an anti communist revolution, in spite of ITN's efforts (BBC's also) to minimize that aspect.
They mention the uprisings being anti-communist during the first interview with the Free Romania newspaper company.
I was just a year old when the Romanian Revolution began in my hometown of Timișoara. Growing up, my parents made sure I understood the horrors of living under communism; reminding me daily of the nightmare it was. This is why I am deeply pro-Western and staunchly capitalist. It is a conviction I intend to pass on to my future children, ensuring that they, too, understand Romania’s path must never veer back toward the Russian sphere of influence.
It is disheartening that less than 40 years after communism's fall, some Romanians have been misled into adopting anti-Western views. To me, this is a betrayal of the sacrifices made during the revolution and the progress we’ve fought so hard to achieve. We owe it to ourselves and future generations to stand firm against this regression. Either we are western, or we perish.
You're a very wise person. Funny how all the pro communist young ppl never want to move to Cuba, North Vietnam,
China, Laos or North Korea.
The far left has created nothing but chaos in the US. I despise them
Viitorilor tai copii? Poate sti ca acum in ,,libertate'' natalitatea este la cele mai scazute cote, iar rata divorturilor si numarul familiilor destramate sunt ridicate.
@ Asta nu înseamnă că ar trebui să susținem candidați anti-occidentali. Rata scăzută a natalității este o provocare pentru întreaga lume dezvoltată, nu doar pentru România. Chiar îți dorești ca România să revină la vremurile în care copiii abandonați ai lui Ceaușescu umpleau străzile? Eu, cu siguranță, nu.
Astăzi, în sfera occidentală, România prosperă mai mult decât în orice alt moment al istoriei sale. Vorbim chiar o limbă occidentală, una cu rădăcini latine. Locul nostru este ferm în Occident, iar să ne întoarcem împotriva acestuia ar fi o trădare monstruoasă a națiunii noastre.
@@aurelianida4805 asa si? ce treaba are cu Ceausescu? Stii (apropo se scrie cu 2 de i) ca ciorile sunt negre si smoala la fel...ce legatura or avea una cu alta numai Dumnezeu stie. Te las pe tine sa te prinzi.
@@daciaromana2396 pro Western, capitalist, you must be an utter idiot saying that, like there was nothing else besides communism - capitalism BS, all invented at the West anyway.... especially you should learn what your parents apparently never taught you that communism was invented by those german j€ws and then transferred to Russian Empire to destroy Russia!
I hope that Romanians that want to vote for Georgescu get a chance to watch this movie and undestand it. I was 11 years old and living in Arad when this happened. Stay strong Romania!
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I was 19, from Arad also, I live in Canada since '95.
Nu te întoarce niciodată la comunism nu minti
@@corneliaadriana2619I live in Arad too. Its a nice city and i was born there too
Love you my Romanian people.
Unfortunately we were left on the hands of Iliescu.
I was in Yugoslavia in Belgrade demonstrated in front the Romania embassy , the all emigrant screaming and cry I hold my son in my arms he was 1 and 3 month inside the boxes say down ceausescu free Romania all the camera in front of us take picture of my son and his father ,the next day we are front Paige in the news all over Europe news , I wish I tell some reporter how I crose the river Danube with one little baby ,in 23 march 1989 and how much I suffer my god how much I suffer
I was 14 yrs old in December 1989, but have not seen this until today, 35 years from the Romanian uprising that led to the fall of Ceausescu's regime. Today it is clear that the second line of communist activists organised the killing of so many innocent people to justify their coming into power. For foreign people, be aware that the Revolution trial has been sent back to first court for several times, showing the complicity of the justice system in hiding the responsible persons. This is a shame and spit on the graveyards of the Romanian heroes who gave their lives for freedom and democracy. We will never forget them, but we also won't forgive the Securitate people and their sons and daughters who, to this day, are some of the wealthiest people and hold some of the most powerful positions in Romania.
Literally just starting thinking about my heritage and ended up here so much history I never even knew about
I remember the victors write history not the losers and ivin so it have bin 35 years since then , the commies are still leading the countries and now in 2024 the SRI and politiceni lui peste prajit l-au fost frica , fear of change and losing POWER
Thanks for the footage. I'm Romanian and I did not see this before. It's not in our archives.
Very interesting. Great mix of videos. I was 17 then and in Romania. I relived those moments very vividly now. Thank you very much!
Thanks!
haha why 4.99??? not 5?
Russians should watch and learn
Delusional
ce sa invete maimutoiule? sa-si predea tara cu resursele ei mari Occidentului hulpav, unde si fericirea si liberatea sun iluzorii?.
Oh look, a Russian troll who coincidentally joined RUclips at the moment when Ukraine was brutally invaded. Nice use of a "Western" name, to lend your propaganda an air of authenticity. @hazelwray4184
Yess
The UK should watch and learn
Regardless of the former Eastern Bloc country, the soldiers of each country's army looked the same...as they did in 1945, which only shows the state of their economies.
Those are conscrips. One year forced army. They were never trained to do anything, I can guarantee you none of them ever fired lived amo prior to this.
I can assure you the ones from the military police securitate were trained and equipped. They had snipers and were permanent paid soldiers, not conscrips.
It's the same in Russia now. Look at their conscrips. It's not necessarily about being a poor country, Russia its not poor. They just added more pouches to their military and got them to pay for their own bullet vest, and that's the improvement.
It's about the military style, Russia and their satelite states relied on cannon fodder soldiers. No need to pay for training or equipment if you're using them as cannon fodder
I can't watch Thatcher without feeling sick.
It was Yugoslav TV that was 1st in Romania during the revolution, not ITN.
I think they mean the first Western news crew
CIA was involved , also your country, and Hungary they wanted to split Romania.
@@elenabibescu1848 Sad, but VERY true
@@elenabibescu1848first time I hear of such a claim that Yugoslavia attempted to have Romania split apart. Do you have any reading material on that particular topic to share?
Great documentary
TinkerTaylorSoldierSpiece 🎼
Wow imagine how many ads twitter and company wouldve sold on click baits back in the day ...
Hello this is Latonya new subscriber to your Channel keep bringing more news like this on your Channel
The whole world need to watch this and take note of the power that the people possessed. They just need to unite! Unite ,Unite.
That's the word!
Thank you very much for this documetary! It is an absolute treasure. We are used to see images, footage and details about the revolution from the inside, from our local televion, from our own people. It is very very intresting to find out how the revolution has been seen from the outside. This documentary really helps broaden our view and understand our past.
Thank you once again for sharing these valuable details about our own history!
Never saw any of this footage before, thank you
28:33 Corneliu Manescu ? He's name was Sergiu Nicolaescu , learn history the right way
Sunt brazilian de origine italiană, iubesc poporul român, oamenii puternici și curajoși. Dumnezeu să-i binecuvânteze
O mascaradă că doar la noi se putea întâmpla, ne-am omorât între noi,,civili cu arme care trăgeau în alți civil crezîndui teroriști și pe care nu ia interogat nimeni,este un filmuleț cu unul care are o banderolă roșie pe frunte ca Rambo trage gagiul ca in codru nici el nu știe în cine trage sau în cine a tras dar era revolutionar,o mizerie de "revoluție "care a luat suflete nevinovate și o nație însetată de sîngele propriu,75% din populația de la țară în 2024 au rămas blocați în 89 adică ușor de influențat și ușor de manipulat
Nu le mai spune adevarul, oamenii vor sa creada ca a fost o revolutie nu o lovitura de stat........ Adica ce rahat, in Aprilie '89 Ceasca anunta ca Romania nu mai are datorie internationala nici in dolari si nici in ruble si in Decembrie moare :) Pana si Ceasca le-a zis-o in timpul procesului dar au editat :) Tot procesul e pe RUclips acum la vedere :) Cica era prost lol
Va recomand cartea lui Andrei Ursu - CADEREA UNUI DICTATOR. Acolo e un imens probatoriu despre ceea ce s-a intamplat cu adevarat la revolutie. Nu s-a tras la intamplare.
Bro chose the whitest romanian for front page
Hahaha
Ethnic Romanians are White
What do you expect from a leftist propaganda channel?
You should know something about gypsies Bulgarian
Romanians are White .
Sadly, my romanian people didnt learned almost anything in all these years. Mainly `cause our education system doesnt`t want to change, still forming ppl in comunist mentality.
Thank you for this documentary. Even though I live in Romania I didn't know about Ceausescu's palace in Timisoara. The interviews with the guards at his palace were very interesting.
I have seen lately ppl from Romania regretting the Ceausescu era,I missed the revolution left the country with my family in December 1984.R I P the victims of the revolution.
Yeah, some people regretted just few years after his death, elderly who were left with a poor pension and people in poverty.
They had no freedom or western products, but there was free housing and free medical care, pensioners had annual thermal spa holidays etc.
Now they have freedom, but access to housing it's a dream far away and they have all the products in the world, but not enough money.
People's primary needs (housing) will always take precedent over secondary needs (freedom), hence why they long for communism. Or you can ask them why, this is the standard answer.
You'll never hear anything about regret from someone who has a decent lifestyle, never.
I always let a tear out looking at the bravery and determination of the youth of 1989 and will never stop being grateful for their sacrifice and courage
It depends on who are you talking to. While some regions in the country have greatly developed after the revolution, mainly Transilvania and Bucharest, others have been left severely depleted and with close-to-no hopes of improvements.
Take for example the Jiu Valley and Southern Romania, whose mines and factories have been left to rot with no other job alternatives.
It's quite nuanced.
@MoMoIsInHell LOL @ free housing. There was no free housing. You had to enroll and wait for months and years for even a small apartament, and it wasn't where you wanted to live with proper conditions, it was where the communist party wanted you to live.
As for "free medical care" just an example: romanian women had zero access to medical services for abortions.
Actually they regret state protectionism. They regret public services, they regret access to healthcare, free education, public transportation.
@MoMoIsInHell Freedom is a secondary need? You sound delulu
Thanks for sharing. I remember hearing this on Radio Bucharest on my shortwave radio in 1989 in Florida. That day, I declared my independence from all political parties
Great documentary, thank you!
From all the ethnic Romanians you choose exactly one non ethnic Romanian soldier as the thumbnail. Why would you do that?
National erasure propaganda, they aren’t even pretending to hide it anymore if you pay a little attention. Happening all over our continent
Pentru că așa au nevoie în mintea lor sa ne separe de ei cei din vest, asa făceau și romanii cu popoarele cu care se luptau, e mai usor sa îți bați joc de alți oameni dacă ii descrii ca diferiți fata de tine.
Multiculturalism is our new religion here in the West.
Soldatul ales este cetățean român ca noi ceilalți, indiferent de etnie sau religie.
@@binescuae Știi și tu ca nu e vb de etnie aici, e vorba de stereotipul cu care alegi sa prezinți o națiune, asa cum au făcut și francezii, exemple: Istoricul jignirilor aduce de francezi: ”Feriți-vă de hoții de bagaje români din trenuri”, ”minunile țiganilor din România la CM 1994”, ”ciocnirea dintre culturi cu țiganii virtuoși” titlu libertatea!
Incredible, the last two weeks of December 1989 was truly transformative in terms of world history. Two years ago when I was living in Germany, I befriended a Romanian lady of about my age (were both in the mid-40s) and we both related to each other our experiences of those two weeks. She was a young girl who experienced the Romanian Revolution and I was a 12 year old American boy who experienced "Operation Just Cause" in Panama and witnessed the downfall of Noriega.
........and after 35 years, same PSD ( the ☭ comunist party , under new leters ) , are again in Government , despite the decision been made by Timișoara ' s heroes. Timișoara's Proclamation , was never allowed in Bucharest. That is why they delayed for decades, the 1989 Revolution Process of Investigation as to whom ordered , after 21st of December , the shooting . Many that lived those times, know that Iliescu ( that assumed the powers, by force ) ; hence casualties escalated from merely 450 , nationwide, to 1.166 deaths.
The UK has become such a sad shadow of what it once was under Margaret Thatcher
I remarked the same thing.. how she spoke.. a real politician… now look where uk is today: they banned the word “christmas” in london to no offend muslims. Insted of Christmas market they built Winter markets .. unreal…
Uk was involved in Ceausescu's assassination, it was planned a civil war for splitting Romania, Hungary was also involved because it wanted Transylvania.
@@elenabibescu1848stop smoking and stop spreading conspiracy teories.
I was 7,I still remember the tracers in the night, the panic and the atmosphere.
Even as a child, blood was boiling.
This was eye opening. I had seen the video from the demonstration, but never knew there was this much fighting.
Thanks bro great work, merry Christmas buddy
Where did u get the footage cuz some were not even released here
I was in Rumania in 1987-1991 visiting my parents. During the protests one small boy was running with his mother and suddenly fell. He had been hit by a bullet fired from a Securitate officer. His mother began wailing but was hit seconds later. It was horrible.
Awful times but when Romania overthrew him that shouldn’t have meant do the exact opposite as him and sell off everything and instead have half our country work in Germany to make a living, and bend over for large powers at the same time
Thousands of people died and no one was responsabile for it
THEY DIED FOR WEST PROPAGANDA
😢 I really hope that this documentary reaches all the young fans of communism. Congratulations 🎉 more videos like this! Help the ones who don't know that communism, extremism and nationalism serves only a handful of people
Libertatea❤!
I was 21 years old,I remember it like it was yesterday.....
I find it interesting that hundreds of people were observing the battle just a few 10s of yards away 48:30
I randomly chose 1:11:15 and started laughing so hard at this piece of propaganda.
nobody was shooting anyone for celebrating Christmas. Romanians were celebrating Christmas, now they're celebrating Xmas.
Romania is like an extra state of India lol
Mother of my children is from Romania and you wouldn't believe the things I've heard from her, her 11 siblings and parents about living in Romania under Ceaușescu and Iliescu, the first elected president of Romania who halted the development of Romanian democracy and kept everything in society more or less the same as they were during the Ceaușescu regime. It was only after the revolution that a lot of Romanians became refugees because of political persecution or emigrates to Europe & USA.
So Romanians had to wait for the democracy, associated freedoms & liberties and basic human rights until 1996 when Emil Constantinescu won the election despite the attempted election fraud by Iliescu's government by disqualifying over million votes. Luckily for Romania and Romanians Iliescu acted lawfully like democratically elected leaders should when he was elected again in 2000.
It's amazing how one leader can make the world understand what the Soviet union does for the world.
The Soviet Union is no more, for your information.
In all seriousness, the irony of the fall of the Soviet Union and it's Warsaw Pact allies was led by it's people will never be lost on me.
It starts from the hearts and it ends in the some pockets.
to you it might sound outrageous
but if you would like to hit the right kind of audience you would make the effforts to translate the lines to romanian, as those events happened in romania not in the united kingdom. All these english floating all around doesn't help the people who, in theory, you would like to understand what all the people are saying.
it's a very wonderful feeling to wake up in the morning living in your bubble of safe haven but it would be trully helpful for YOURSELF to wake up and check reality for a change, that is if the ignorance in which you are living is too much to bear or if you want to form human bonds with other people from ROMANIA.
NOW it is your responsiblity to fight for those european rights you are so much talking nowadays. may mercy find those who are righteous
Spectacularly said.
we came full circle ...end of freedom is near!
România is ruled today by the same people who ruled it before ‘89. Bolshevik sons took place of their Bolshevik dads, that’s the change.
Dodgy things happened in literally 12 months because all the Eastern European countries collapsed.
Thanks for this archive footage...we've not seen this on Romanian TV.
What’s funnier to me is that more Romanians back then spoke english than they do now 😂, a country so anti-west/east, so isolated, yet everyone and their grandmas knew a word or 2 of english
You're pretty misinformed then. People were allowed to learn a second international language of their choice. Surprisingly, not that many chose Russian , but French, German and English. And also, we have more English speakers in average than probably any other eastern European country right now as allot of us were raised with no dubs no subtitles Cartoon Network and stuff after the Revolution.
@@RomaniaOverpowered Hmmm, poate? Stiu ca nu am mai trait in Romania de 15 ani, dar am facut 4 ani de scoala in Romania si imi aduc aminte ca nu multe lume era... inebunita cu engleza, poate lucrurile s-au schimbat acum, nu am mai vizitat tara de 6 ani, aproape 7.
Deci doar iti dai cu parerea fara sa stii despre ce vorbesti
@@Jinars. uhhh nu? Am explicat deja de ce am zis ce am zis
@@gojo76 ai sa fi surprinsa daca revii si aflii defapt cat de multa 'romengleza' se vorbeste. Daca ai fi sa te dai straina si ai pleca prin bucuresti sau alt oras mare din Romania, cu multi ai putea purta o simpla conversatie sau mai mult, prin simplul fapt ca noi consumam foarte multa media pe limba engleza, si ca este si obligatoriu ca copiilor sa invete engleza la scoala, intr-un mod relativ ok, ceea ce sporeste cunostiintele despre engleza, ii drept ca nu prea am fi cei mai buni in a comunica intr-un accest ok, dar comentariul tau initial, nu prea are logica, fiindca adresezi asta ca find un fapt, cand defapt nici tu nu esti 100% pe ce vorbesti, si dovedesti si asta, si daca vezi si prin comentarii, majoritatea isi spun parerile si experientele in engleza.
cel mai bun documentar. sunt din Timisoara 😇😇😇😍😍
55:05 🤣🤣🤣 "subminarea economiei naționale"
Ce mizerie! România nu avea nici o datorie în 1989, avea industrie și agricultură.
Acum, în 2024, România este plină de datorii de miliarde de euro, a rămas fără industrie iar agricultura e vândută altora, străini.
În 35 de ani a fost vândut aproape tot, cedate resursele naturale ale țării iar populația a migrat să muncească în occident muncile cele mai grele și plătite la salarii mult mai mici decât cele ale rezidenților, munci care occidentalii nu mai voiau să le facă.
România a fost spoliată după "revolutie"! Revoluție care a fost lovitură de stat dată cu concursul forțelor din vest cât și din est.
Nu avea industrie. Industria era la pamant. Falimentara. Toti banii s-au dus spre plata datoriei externe si nu s-a mai investit nimic in industrie. Fabricile era u cu tehnologie din anii '60 si nu mai produceau nimic de calitate. In agricultura,a cuma se produce de trei ori mai mult decat pe vremea aia chiar si cu cifrele umflate de atunci. Vorbesti si tu din auzite
Industria produce cu cel putin 75% mai mult decat in anii 80. Agricultura vanduta? Suntem printre cei mai mari exportatori din UE. Stii economie cum stiu eu balet.
@Cornelbananau pey, văd că nu înțelegi ceea ce citești! Marea agricultură nu mai aparține românilor!!!!!
Industria cui?! Fabricile și uzinele ROMÂNEȘTI, s-au vândut la fier vechi!
@Cornelbananau Străinii care fac agricultură, duc grâul "afară" și aduc cocă congelată să o vândă ca pâine!
@Cornelbananau Eu, poate spre surprinderea ta, știu ce înseamnă o balanță!
Când cumperi din afară mai mult decât vinzi într-acolo, ieși în pierdere!
How nice that the protesters prepared placards in English...
Romanians know better !
Of all the people in this video to use as the thumbnail you choose the darkest, brownest one that appears for like 1 second. Classic British media.
The problem with communism is that the head of state believes that he/she can do whatever he/she likes.
On the other hand, they have ambitions (Stalin’s Five-Year Plans or Mao’s Great Leap Forward) that sound great in theory but don’t work in practice.
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Thank you very much for this. '
in timp ce oamenii se chinuiau in nestiinta, intr o manipulare excesiva, pe strazi, astia deschideau sampanie dupa sampanie, foarte frumos...
Tradatorii, iar romanii se imouscau intre ei sau erau imouscati de altii. ,. Apoi, cica a fost revolutie.
I am Romanian, my great great grandmother was Romanian 100% and we are all white skinned!
Nobody asked bro 😂
@@euphorbia1581bro, i feel discriminated against bro, can't you tell?
@@euphorbia1581 i feel discriminated against, can't you tell bro? 🤔
Ok?
18:12 ironic Yugoslavia reporting on this considering they would have the same happen to them in a few years time
DEAR BBC news 1989 I was interviewed by 3 reporter in camping cotsuniac in former Yugoslavia , how I can't get the tape to show my grad children and my son he was only 1 year and 2 month ,
What did they asked you ?
@intel386DX I crossed the border in Serbia I crossed the river Danube with my son he was 1year and 2 month
@@anisoarachilom9453 ok, but that interview, about what was it ?
this is called a coup and it had nothing to do with romanians other than it happened in Romania. Is true there were romanians involved too but they were acting in sheeple capacity.
what did you find in shops, supermarkets, pharmacies in the last 80's? Such as disposable diapers for babies (Pampers or other brands of diapers), cosmetic products, soaps, perfumes. I ask for this information because I do not know how they used diapers on babies before the fall of the regime.
Acum sunt multe mărci de scutece, mai multe decât bebeluși.
Very sad. The country went so downward so fast after this. People should have taken the power!
I know for a fact that Romania is a hopeless case .
true, one of the most corrupt cointries ever to exist., and EU is now full of Romanian criminals
I like how 50% of this video is only about the fortunate one's that didn't live in Romania at the time, and 25% is about people that were put in chair by the regime (press dir.). You could do better.
that was not a revolution but a coupe d'etat
The news at ten broadcast reminds me of a command and conquer red alert cut scene
These are new footage videos, never seen by Romanians. Isn't this strange? After 35 years, we have this on RUclips 😊
It's funny because Romania is still one of the worst countries in Europe, if not the worst.
Braindead
No the worst is Moldova and Albania .
Britain supports protesters
But brits csn be arrested for making comments on Internet
I dont know what’s going on in the UK in regards to citizen’s rights and liberties, but it’s quite sad. I say this as a Romanian.
I was home on leave from West Berlin when this happened. This was a perfect example of people power supported by the Army and police to rid their country of a parasite leader and government. Bravo all that took part, BRAVO!
Those days I remember, it was snowy X-mas and i watched this revolution from TV. Student during those days.
I was in Bucarest 1997, I visited Caicescu"s palace and so on. Care de Nord was horribele place, full of criminals.
They looks like spanish russians
😂😂😂 Omg
If I was born in 1989 I would've been born in the middle of the revolution
Cine l-a pus pe Banel acolo pentru clickbait?
Interesting how there are always "innocent" British journalists where the violent revolutions are happening.
Remember this, Reverend Laszlo Tokes, was the Ethnic Hungarian in Transylvania, who organised the protest and the Rebellion against Ceaușescu and his Regime.
What a joke, others organised it for him outside Romania. I don't need to remember anything.
Reverend Laszlo Tokes was hungarian agent that conspired against Romania, Ceausescu was just in the way...
30.000 russian "tourists" in that period , they came to visit the beauties of Romania (december 1989) why is not usual this number ? , never were recorded this number of russian tourists in other months , maybe just 400-500 , and then suddenly 30 K in december 1989 ! this is not so... suspicious ?!
You assuming russians were behind the plot?
If so, it is one of the biggest self-inflicted injury ever as Romania becomes NATO member later haha.