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Why Romania Was Once Europe’s Most Absurd Dictatorship
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- Опубликовано: 24 янв 2023
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15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
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There is a very similar Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu story related to the introduction of color television in Romania. During the late 60s-early 70s The Soviet Union switched to color television, after receiving a studio for color TV broadcasts in SECAM system from France, as a sort of bribe for Brezhnev to ensure his good collaboration. As a result, the Soviets gave a directive for all Warsaw Pact member states to switch to color television in French SECAM system. Ceausescu himself vowed to comply, and Romanian television even did some color broadcasts experiments, and by 1980 there were even some weekly shows on Romanian television that broadcasted in color. Despite that, by 1980 Romania was one of the last few remaining countries in Europe to have not switched to full color broadcasting yet. It wasn't because they couldn't afford it or they didn't have the necessary technology, money wasn't the problem at all. It was because... you guessed it, Elena Ceausescu was staunchly opposed to it. Whenever the Minister of Industry Avram tried to bring up the switch to color she instantly rejected it, saying that color television was too much of a luxury for "the idiots" (as her and Nicolae routinely referred to ordinary Romanian citizens in private), saying that it's already enough that they gave them a TV set in every household, and that "the idiots" should be happy with what they have. Despite that, the leadership and the staff of Romanian national television started working in secret to make the switch to full color, only that not with the French SECAM system imposed by the Soviets, but with the West German PAL system, used by most of western Europe, which was a lot more fitting for Romania's mountaineous geography. The story goes that at one point during that time Elena herself visited the national TV studios and saw one of the color live transmission mobile studio cars, and berated those present for painting the colors of the Romanian flag wrong, not realizing that what she was looking at was not the colors of the Romanian national flag, but the primary colors of color television, red-green-blue, but the TVR employees, not wanting Elena to find out that color broadcasting equipment was being secretly imported from the West, apologized for the "mistake" and told her that it will be repainted, and carried on. Finally, after around a year of hard work, the Romanian national broadcaster TVR was ready to switch to full color, and the TVR leadership decided that the switch was to take place on the 23rd of August 1983, at the time Romania's national day, with the broadcast of the national day parade and celebrations in Bucharest that day to be the first full color broadcast of Romanian television. It all went smoothly and as planned, but a huge scandal erupted later that day when the Ceausescus found out that TVR had been broadcasting in color. Nicolae threw a huge tantrum and called for the sanctioning and firing of all those who had disobeyed his wife's orders and did the complete opposite of what she wanted. However things calmed down almost instantly after the Ceausescus saw themselves in color on the screen, and they liked it so much, that after a couple of minutes they didn't even want to hear of black and white broadcasting again, and thus, Romanian television switched to full color. There was just one more funny little aspect about this, which was that after a while the staff at the Soviet embassy in Bucharest realized that their TV sets were no longer receiving the programmes of Romanian national television, and kept calling the Romanians to ask them what's going on, but they always answered that they know nothing. It was a bit later that they realized that Romanian television had started broadcasting in PAL system, and that was why their SECAM system TV sets were no longer receiving anything, but they said nothing.
@@reggiekrager5411coa’e de ce ai scris asa mult? Eu cum citesc atata kk despre acest subiect nefolositor care ma intereseaza?:))
@@constantin240It's not my fault you are illiterate and you lack intelligence. The text is adressed to smart, literate people, not to you.
@@constantin240You don't read it. This text is adressed to intelligent and literate people, not to you.
The spot where the Ceausescus were executed is a tourist attraction now. The Romanian people hated them that much
Not all
@@michaeltrumph121 💀 what do you mean not at all, life under his regime was a pain, the only people who weren't affected much were the ones from the country side
@@Aerial_gaming
It was a pain only for a few and only for 5-10 years
@@Aerial_gaming no
They did in 1989. now they all regret it .
Pretty sure Elena was the power behind the throne, whispering into her husbands ear. This doesn’t absolve the guy. At all.
Elena lied about her education and forced scientists to put her name on papers, she was apparently illiterate and had practically no formal education
If I were ever a dictator, I would never hire my wife. Stalin and Hitler were single to the end. Well, Stalin had kids, but he never shared power. Say what you want about Hitler, but I find it interesting that he never married.
She was the real evil here
Absolve him from what ?!
He did nothing evil
@@michaeltrumph121 lol… what. Oh wait, you are serious 💀
For the non-Romanians watching this, Ceausescu wasn't executed because of Piata Romana subway station flop.
No, he was executed for being such a bastard.
@@ironclaw6969 no. you are not Romanian right?
@@erxo1I am not, however my first wife was I got to hear about all kinds of things
@@ironclaw6969 you still don't know nothing about him and Romania, obviously a rich people now hates it... but it is only 1% of our people.
Some would say otherwise
Regarding the station at Piața Romană: because the station was such a hush-hush project, its platforms are significantly more narrow than on other stations, with only 1.5 m (5 ft) between wall and train doors.
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16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Mark 1.15
15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Hebrews 11:6
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Jesus
There is a very similar Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu story related to the introduction of color television in Romania. During the late 60s-early 70s The Soviet Union switched to color television, after receiving a studio for color TV broadcasts in SECAM system from France, as a sort of bribe for Brezhnev to ensure his good collaboration. As a result, the Soviets gave a directive for all Warsaw Pact member states to switch to color television in French SECAM system. Ceausescu himself vowed to comply, and Romanian television even did some color broadcasts experiments, and by 1980 there were even some weekly shows on Romanian television that broadcasted in color. Despite that, by 1980 Romania was one of the last few remaining countries in Europe to have not switched to full color broadcasting yet. It wasn't because they couldn't afford it or they didn't have the necessary technology, money wasn't the problem at all. It was because... you guessed it, Elena Ceausescu was staunchly opposed to it. Whenever the Minister of Industry Avram tried to bring up the switch to color she instantly rejected it, saying that color television was too much of a luxury for "the idiots" (as her and Nicolae routinely referred to ordinary Romanian citizens in private), saying that it's already enough that they gave them a TV set in every household, and that "the idiots" should be happy with what they have. Despite that, the leadership and the staff of Romanian national television started working in secret to make the switch to full color, only that not with the French SECAM system imposed by the Soviets, but with the West German PAL system, used by most of western Europe, which was a lot more fitting for Romania's mountaineous geography. The story goes that at one point during that time Elena herself visited the national TV studios and saw one of the color live transmission mobile studio cars, and berated those present for painting the colors of the Romanian flag wrong, not realizing that what she was looking at was not the colors of the Romanian national flag, but the primary colors of color television, red-green-blue, but the TVR employees, not wanting Elena to find out that color broadcasting equipment was being secretly imported from the West, apologized for the "mistake" and told her that it will be repainted, and carried on. Finally, after around a year of hard work, the Romanian national broadcaster TVR was ready to switch to full color, and the TVR leadership decided that the switch was to take place on the 23rd of August 1983, at the time Romania's national day, with the broadcast of the national day parade and celebrations in Bucharest that day to be the first full color broadcast of Romanian television. It all went smoothly and as planned, but a huge scandal erupted later that day when the Ceausescus found out that TVR had been broadcasting in color. Nicolae threw a huge tantrum and called for the sanctioning and firing of all those who had disobeyed his wife's orders and did the complete opposite of what she wanted. However things calmed down almost instantly after the Ceausescus saw themselves in color on the screen, and they liked it so much, that after a couple of minutes they didn't even want to hear of black and white broadcasting again, and thus, Romanian television switched to full color. There was just one more funny little aspect about this, which was that after a while the staff at the Soviet embassy in Bucharest realized that their TV sets were no longer receiving the programmes of Romanian national television, and kept calling the Romanians to ask them what's going on, but they always answered that they know nothing. It was a bit later that they realized that Romanian television had started broadcasting in PAL system, and that was why their SECAM system TV sets were no longer receiving anything, but they said nothing.
they sound exactly like dictators from a comedy skit
This is one of Tyrion Lannister's "vicious idiot kings".
Lol.
Watch 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (2007) and Tales from the Golden Age (2009) if you want films set in Romania during his reign.
Agree! 100% accuracy.
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For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Come to Jesus Christ today
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Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void.
The Holy Spirit can lead you guide and confort you through it all
Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today
Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today
John 3:16-21
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Mark 1.15
15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Hebrews 11:6
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Jesus
Thanks for the suggestions. I'd watched the first one but not the second.
Thanks! I watched the second one and I loved it!
By the way romanians hated Ceaușescu so much, that "Genius of the Carpathians" now means "Idiot of the Carpathians"
no
@@erxo1
Yes
Și unde sunteți voi ăștia care îl numiți așa ca pana acum nu v’am văzut pe unu sa încercați sa argumentați asta in strada? E prima data când aud asta. Aaa ca unde sunteți?
No one in History in the last 6 thousand years (6000) ever managed to pay their debts. He was a genius, and left us a brand new country fully functional and on its way towards heavens. You all invited all the secrets services of the world in our country, created chaos and destroyed it in that year. Till this day the traitors and the criminals of that year are walking free along with puradeii lor. He was a fking genius, and you stole my country. Your generations will get to suffer greatly for this deeds.
@@constantin240 exact
Well...what you just said is not the reason he is considered one of the craziest :))
Thanks for another informative video! I remember his name but little else.
How the hell did they endure this?!
How the hell did the men women and children of Vietnam Cambodia and Laos endure the bombing and slaughter by the USA
They didn't. Over 7 million Romanians left the country during Ceausescu's oppressive regime, some of them risking their lives illegally crossing the borders, and many others protested the Ceausescu family dictatorship any way they could.
@@Gheorghe99yeah, and now over 8 million people left! So what’s you point?!
@@Gheorghe99 7M? De unde ai scos-o pe asta? N-au plecat atâția în 33 de ani de când emigrația e la liber, și au plecat în 24 de ani cât granițele au fost păzite cu mitraliere și câini antrenați să bage colții în beregată?
@majorMcpharter don't worry comrade, communism will work someday, somewhere on this planet, if we only keep trying lol 😆
Those sneaky engineers!
Those sneaky engineers would have been buried there in the tunnels if she found out they disobeyed her orders. She was a maniac, worse than him even.
Ceaucescu got the justice he deserved.
He is an hero.
I strongly oppose the death penalty. Having said that, I have often thought that had Nicolae had another wife, things could have been different.
@@elenabibescu1848 He was 🗑🤮
RIP Ceausescu 1918-1989
fun fact: more than 66% of Romanians in a survey said that it was better in communism
@@erxo1 🤮🤮🤮
Smooth brain dictator
There was a science book released under her name, so, that she couldn't even read and write. 😂 Did you hear something like this? Yes, that's right in north Korea
Ceausescu's fall was the end of a nightmare for Rumania.
Nope, but the START
@@marhaenthemchannelreupload1344 You are crazy.
@@michelesanpietro3013I had a friend who travelled to do voluntary work for charities in Romania after the fall of Ceausescu. Even years after the end of the dictator he was seeing people emerging from sewers in the morning, as this was where they lived, people eating out of bins on the street and he told me the things he saw in the orphanages will traumatise him for life.
@@wattage2007 I believe that! Ceausescu was simply a monster!
@@wattage2007that is what liberalism can do.
Nationalism is better
This whole story is bonkers. Truth is often stranger than fiction.
😂😂, oh mate, you have no idea!
Incompetence, but yeah.
Beard Wednesday!
In 1987 our train stopped in Bucharest for 1 hour or so.
The railway station was dirty, poor-looking people were begging for food and the only item sold in the kiosks were shrimps from Vietnam.
The impression I still have from this stop is the world of dirt and poverty in black and white.
That’s exactly like judging the entire planet based on one place on earth type of comparation.
@@constantin240 You don't even remotely make sense.
@@marcelnowakowski945 if I need to explain you such simple things how are you going to survive in this world?
@@constantin240 I am not. Enjoy your milk and honey life in Romania!
Cheers from Vancouver!
Wrong, it was opened after 1990, and there were no petitions, the station was disguised as a maintainance unit.
🇲🇽Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador reminds me so much of Ceaucescu from day one ⚒️🇻🇳 you should look into him as well
Bruh, you insultin' Hoxha too man!
Hoxha earned it.
it's chau-SHESS, coo, not chau-CHESS-coo
Commenting 4 algorithm
as adam something said
"smooth brained dictator + construction projecr = dumb shit"
Great quote btw
Chow - shes - coo. Not Chow - chess - coo. How difficult can it be??
Not everybody is familiar with the intricacies of all of the different alphabets they come into contact with. Tell me, how would most Americans pronounce Bucuresti?
Let all dictators know that the people will always win!
fun fact: more than 66% of Romanians in a survey said that it was better in communism
@@erxo1 I’m not arguing against communism, I’m arguing against dictatorship. Communism doesn’t necessarily mean dictatorship.
@@Scriabinfan593 no i mean...romanians think it was better in Ceaușescu times , simply that.
@@Scriabinfan593
Dictatorship is the best form of government
*He wasn't crazy at all*
Dakar nar fi voi am available bai buna viata
This story reminds me of Hitler and Stalin
As a Romanian I can say remember that:
There is nothing worse than Ceausescu's Romania than Romania without Ceausescu.
I’m from Romania, the video and explanations what you give here are so low and taken out of the context. Where do you get your informations? From tik-tok? Don’t speak about a country if you don’t know the history of that country, if you not live there and feel what people feel. Shame on you that for some likes and subscribers you go so low.
it is accurate, just because you cannot grasp a truth that goes against your biases it doesnt mean that it's a lie
@@calin5422 hai taci din gura , crezi ca vrea rau pentru natia lui? Ceausescu era dictator, dar din pacate mai bun din politici de acum
Even tho Ceaușescu was bad I want to tell you on his final word he said that România is gonna go to shreds beacuse of the terrorist ( soldiers of the revolution (Russian) ) and now romania și kinda bad like economy and more things are dead
Is kinda bad*
At least Nicolae Ceaușescu didn't sell romanias companies and industry. If you look now in romania, every pice of the industry he build is gone.
And he also took command of the country in 1965, not 74.
He just oppressed the people 🙄
fun fact: more than 66% of Romanians in a survey said that it was better in communism@@omi685 idiot
But he left the country bankrupt and freezing to death just to build the Palace.
@@erxo1
Namely those who either worked for or received favors from the regime.
@@shauncameron8390 No, we are bankrupt now, he created ALOT and 0 debt ...do you really think it was revolution? they waited that he paid the debt AND KILLED HIM, all those factories GOT SOLD BY THIEFHS at governament.. now romania has 30% external debt.
I don't mind a dictator as long as they keep the trains running on time.
Romania is stil absurd.
Tell me a perfect country that you know of and lived there long enough to make a judgement.
What a click bait... So this guy is the most absurd dictator because of a metro station argument.
The metro case was the least of it all. Add Ceaușescu's ban on abortion in 1967 (to boost the population growth), with the result that the state orphanages were flooded with children whom their parents simply couldn't afford to keep, or the children were born with handicaps (which officially didn't exist in Socialist paradise) - as well as many botched illegal abortions were performed.
And let's not forget how Ceaușescu razed almost all of Bucharest's Old Town to the ground in order to build his People's Palace (a project that was never finished). Even though the building now houses both chambers of the Romanian Parliament (the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies), as well as three museums and venues for conferences/symposia, a staggering 70% of the building still remains empty. The costs of electricity, water and heating exceed US$ 6 million ... a year. I kid you not.
Because Ceaușescu was dead-set on eliminating the country's foreign debt, he exported almost all of Romania's food produce, causing constant food shortages. Workers were instead given meal tickets for each day worked, and which they could redeem in the lunch canteen of their work place. Basically, if one day you didn't go to work, you might very well not eat that day.
Sick days were also a cumbersome affair for workers. Every sick day, regardless of cause, required a doctor's note. And not just any doctor, but a family doctor assigned to you. And if for some reason your family doctor wasn't available on the day you had to call in sick, or the doctor didn't feel like granting medical leave, well, then you didn't get a note ... and you didn't get paid for that day ... and you didn't necessarily eat that day, either. (Incidentally, the meal-ticket system and doctor's-note requirement are still in practice to this day, believe it or not....)
It was only an example of their stupidity! What do you want, a 5-hour video?
@@danielvanr.8681 "Add Ceaușescu's ban on abortion in 1967..." well he was a Republican! A joke.
He banned contraception ALONG with abortion which created the crisis. Families were also poor and could barley afford food which led to the orphanages being overpopulated.
@@DB-pp7kj Banning contraceptives and abortion - sounds like the GOP platform!
This guy is misinformed
Is this video a joke? Getting killed for not building a metro station that is the moral?😂
That'a not what happened, this is clickbait
You now a s
How to make a popular video: modify historical events and sell missinformation just so american viewers will like it
Cope tankie
@@Espanaer the day when a cappie will have an actual smart argument from an objective point of view I will stop “coping”. You probably confuse socialism with liberalism
@@ytdanytevero Capitalism has brought billions out of poverty and improved life standards than any other system ever devised. Also I am a fan of Liberalism
@@Espanaer capitalism is the reason why African and most of the Asian and Latin American countries are in their curent horible state. Nearly all the infrastructure that we curently use in Romania was build during communism. At one point, the USSR was the second latgest economy in world, which is extremely impresive considering the extremly harsh past and the centuries of corupted regimes that they went throught. In less than 35 years they went from living in wooden baracks to launching the first satelites in space. Meanwhile capitalism is a system where you need to be exploited until one day maybe, JUST maybe, if you have the luck, advantages and conditions needed, you’ll become the exploiter. It’s a complete nonsense
@@Espanaer same did socialism. Look at the living conditions of an Average Eastern European person before and after it
"At the cost of the citizens' needs", socialist countries also tried to meet citizens needs. Many socialist countries instituted vaccination programmes, literacy campaigns, housing, etc, etc, etc.
Why was there so much hunger in the '80s?
Tell MBS of Saudi Arabia
Dayum, Nick is hot ❤
Joe & Jill Biden
He was Not a Dictator !
Today Millions of Romanians want him back!You are so wrong in Your false Propaganda !
How do these guys get posts? Wow. Turning true history into silly, false, entertainmemnt. The americans will eat it up.
Good people, you know nothing about Ceausescu.
I was born in Romania and I know more than you about him.
You only heard what others said about him, not the real thing about him.
Ceausescu cannot necessarily say that he was a good man, but he built factories, built hospitals, built schools and educated the Romanian people.
Currently, there is nothing left of what he did, we were the first country in Europe and the first in the world that no longer had a state tax.
It was not Ceaușescu who kept us in poverty and hunger but the government, Ceaușescu did not know that this was actually happening in Romania, because when he came to the shops everything was food on the shelves.
After he left, the food was taken away.
But even so the people did not die of hunger or poverty, all of them had money, even if they had little money they still had food and a refrigerator, some of us had a television and there was no poverty.
Now what's up?
Romania had some golden rulers during communism.
Do not follow those who tell lies.
We currently live more in lies and fakes.
He was 🗑. Glad he's gone!
@@omi685 A friend, you know nothing.
Did you live in Romania during that time?
If not, shut up and don't look like you're dumber than you are, talking about something you know nothing about.
I'll take my cue from friends that lived through his time in office, he was a bastard and Christmas is now a double holiday. It is quite possible to learn from the experiences of others.
@@ironclaw6969 fun fact: more than 66% of Romanians in a survey said that it was better in communism
RIP Ceausescu . There is nothing worse than Ceausescu's Romania than Romania without Ceausescu.
@@erxo1
Mostly former regime stooges.
meanwhile in capitalists countries, we just build nothing
Better talk about your country not about my one, first clean your rubbish, and after talk about my garden
stupid defaiming propaganda , lies lies.bad exageration
I like it how americans know everything about all european "dictators".
Ceausescu was the best leader Romania ever had
The only time the country was truly sovereign
>russian larp loves romania under russian boot
He was Not a Communist. Sadly you confuse the regimes of state capitalism with socialism/communism.
He wasn't a communist, he was only the General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party🤣🤣🤣
You act as if there is some sort of large difference between the different forms of socialism. Let's just cut it all down to size and refer to it as what it really was ... slavery, which is the defining characteristic of all socialist systems.
State capitalism is a product of socialism/communism.
Romanians are pretty smart people actually. Like, brain wise. A bit like Asians on maths. Very good doctors (when they are serious) - the kind of doctors that would take time to think and investigate a difficult problem. Romania was very developed before the 2nd world war. Then communists got the idea to replace the smart persons with ruthless dumb people. We've lost all politicians, all businessmen, basically communists did erase the elite and hired the remaining smart guys into the political police. Communists did also obliterate all peasant land in the process, made it 'public'. First dictator Dej would still be a team player, but Ceausescu was another kind of bug altogether. Guy had his own idea about ruling a country, he would listen to no one except maybe.. his wife. He still had a brain, incredible memory and insane working strength. Just to see him speaking for endless hours at Party meetings, while old and diabetic, tells you he wasn't your average Johnny. All that while he could barely read properly. The real proof you don't need school to be smart. Legend has it, Carter did offer Ceausescu to list a couple of romanian companies at the US stock exchange. It was real cash. Ceausescu did spent the entire night debating the offer with... not hard to guess. He knew at that point the romanian economy was about to crash landing, too much debt and no real profits to pay the interests. But Elena got her own idea: taking US money would meant too much US influence which would put in danger their very dictatorship. Couple of the year some may say.