1) Transilvania is a region of Romania about 200km from Bucharest 2) Yes , we learn about all this in school. No, no one likes Ceausescu . 3) The army seeing the whole country is revolting they laid down the weapons . Without any proof or documents after 1 hour they just said enough and executed both of them. Theres a lot of history and many events. There's a documentary on youtube named " 30 years Since revolution" from recorder's channel. The documentary has english subtitles.
Hello! Transilvania is one of the regions in Romania. Dracula was inspired by one of our leaders Vlad the Impaler. You can visit anytime. Romania is pretty safe (aside from the ocasional pickpockets) and we are generally very friendly people.
@@williamwilkes9873 The arrogance. England doesn't have anything to do with Transilvania. English is also not the only language in the world. Don't be ignorant.
You really need to check up on the fall of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989. Not just in Romania (which was probably the most violent of these revolutions) but also all the other countries, that got rid of their communist leaders within a year. For those of us, who were alive during the Cold War, this was extremely significant and not something we're ever going to forget, but I had hoped that it would also be taught in history classes for the younger generations.
Remind them that. Splitting Europa into west and east was done after 2nd ww. Churchill, and usa did this deal with Stalin ."Half Europe is ours and the other half is yours" .. Germany was "cut" in half .
How is it possible you have never heard about Nicolae Ceaușescu... and the (Avenue des) Champs Élysées, which is probably the most famous avenue in Paris (regarded as the most beautiful avenue in the whole world by a lot of people)? 😮
Simply because on the grand scheme of history, he wasnt that influential to be remembered as much as other leaders, and considering that it is from Romania, no leaders of any comunist country except china, cuba and ussr are teached in most school
No !, Wallachia (1859), Moldova (1859) or Transilvania (1690), no longer exist !, There is only one country named ROMÂNIA founded on January 24. 1859 ! Unitary state and point !
The revolution started in Timisoara and then it spread throughout the country very fast ( even if Ceausescu tried to stop it with soldiers, tanks, arrests and torture). It only lasted a few days but it was very violent. That's how angry/desperate the Romanian people were. Ceausescu and his wife tried to escape Bucharest with a helicopter but were caught in Târgoviște. There was a trial, mostly for show, then they were immediately taken outside, put against a wall and shot. Good riddance.
About one-fifth of the city was bulldozed to build the so-called House of the People, the surrounding buildings, and the grand avenue the leads into the distance from the palace, deliberately made wider and longer than the Champs-Élysee. Forty thousand residents were forcibly rehoused. Some buildings were uprooted and rebuilt in different locations; others remained and now stand at strange angles to the new buildings. I don't know which episode it was but you talked about a metal festival and mentioned Serj from SOAD and i knew right away, I like these guys! He's one of my heroes. And I want you to know that I truly love your content ❤️ You both give off positive vibes and i cherish people who never stop learning. You probably won't read all this, sorry 😂
I'm in Spain, yet I haven't needed to learn about this in History books. I'm 52 and I've seen all of this in the spanish TV news when was happening over there. There are 650,000 immigrants from Romania in Spain (1.3% of the population). Nowadays, Romania is a semi-presidential republic, or dual executive republic (like France). They're a member of the European Union and plan is to move into the Eurozone and adopt the Euro as currency in 2029.
Lol, and they will fail in 2029, as they failed several times to get in to the Euro zone. Don't keep your hopes up on that. Even Bulgaria has a better chance.
Exactly: Romania was a one party system together with a political police. In other words this people had 2 choices: accept to give away their home/land or going into jail for some made up crime such as "counter revolution" or some crape like that.
There are documentaries about the 'revolutions of 1989' which put this in a wider context. The maker of this one seemed to assume that all that was already known.
@@tolstoyedBecause between the gulags, summary executions, torture, starving the people to death and other such benefits that we had the opportunity to suffer, demolishing some houses and forcing people out was one of the least problematic. Considering that Communism killed way over 100 million people it's pretty difficult to see it in a good light.
@@tolstoyed And Mao and Stalin were what? Communists. Besides, it's not just them; apart from Mao and Stalin there was, Lenin, Pol Pot, Fidel Castro, Kim Il Sung and the other Kims, Wilhelm Pieck, Gheorghe Gheorghiu - Dej, Nicolae Ceausescu and so on. Everytime a country, willingly or not, has become communist the result was always the same: dictatorship, famine, general bankruptcy, labour camps, widespread executions and a sea of suffering for 99.99% of the people. Communism has never worked and never will work because, apart from being an unfair idea, is also an idiotic idea. I've had the dubious pleasure of growing up in a communist country (from birth until I was 14 years old) and I've seen first hand what is what. I know the theory of it and I know the practice of it; both of them are horrible.
i would say if communism failed is because it needs leaders. Give power to anyone and they'll will take advantage of it to their own interest. So imagine giving away your all life: your time, your production, your knowledge.
1989 was the year communism fell in most of eastern european countries. While most of them threw their communist regimes peacefully, in Romania close to 1500 people died in a violent revolution that lasted for several days and pretty much ended December 25th with the execution of the Ceausescus in Targoviste, which by the way was Vlad the Impaler`s capital city in the Middle Ages. Ceausescu rulled Romania for almost 25 years and while his regime started with popular reforms and a turn toward the West ( at one point in the 70s Nixon even visited Romania and the country had the Most Favorite Country Clause given by the US) at the end on the 70s he started develloping a personality cult entertaining disastrous ideas like building these massive infrastructures that sapped the country`s budget and the people slowly started turning against him. Like others have mentioned Transylvania is one of Romanias historical regions and home to famous literary evil Count Dracula, a characted loosely based on Vlad Tepes, the Impaler who ruled Wallachia for a short period in the 15th century. I live in Sighisoara and it is common knowledge that Vlad spent part of his childhood here.
Yes, we do like Americas and you are very welcome. Romania is very friendly to tourists :) I was smiling at the Transylvania comment, as did others here in the comments.
I'm glad to see a beginning of differentiation of terms even among young Americans. Unfortunately in the world the examples of communism are all linked to dictatorships but it is the dictatorship that is the serious problem, similar if not worse monstrosities we find in all dictatorships of any political color. Communist parties within democracies have usually fought for good causes but sadly they were often infiltrated or linked to totalitarian regimes in the east. Communism has also generated great philosophers and ideologues and there are many who had an ideal of democratic communism, just think of Trosky or the Italian Gramsci, Trosky was assassinated by order of the PCR. From the point of view of Communism = evil, the former Warsaw Pact countries are the most fierce opponents because it is even easier for them to associate it with the dictatorship they have experienced and suffered, so even among Romanians I believe that the vast majority remember Chiacescu with contempt.
Hello Loners ! yes, you have people from Romania watching :)..i'm watching you're videos for a least a year, I like your content, I like you, you're really nice people :)..Ceausescu, the communist leader was killed in 1989 in the Romanian revolution, and since then you we are a democratic country in Eastern Europe bordering Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine, Bulgaria & the Black Sea. Near the city of Constanta (@ the Back Sea) we have a military base that's hosting a few thounsand American personnel & other nations. Maybe one day you will come and visit us :D like many other Americans did and who enjoyed our country and came back like (YTB channels) Sammy and Tommy, JetLag Warriors, Ways of the World, Ashley & Christian & many more. Wish you all the best from Romania, keep up the good work ! 👍💪 ♥
Unfortunately these kind of actions take place all around the world and with any government system. Romania just pulled the shortest straw in this case.
Romania is now part of the European Union and NATO and has a strategic partnership with the US. It is a completely different country to what it was during the communist era. It is also one of the most pro-American countries in Europe together with Poland. It is quite safe to visit as the country has extremely low gun violence and Romanians are very welcoming.
This also happens in the USA. They just call it "eminent domain." In the 1950s, Robert Moses built the Cross Bronx Expressway in NYC which demolished and/or split whole neighborhoods and displaced the people who lived in its path. The Bronx has not recovered to this day.
Yes, but the propaganda machine of the West does not care about this or their own people. Their goal is to show the "evil" world the superiority of the American dream, or system, so when they come to ask you to deliver your country and your future to them, you would not question. At some point this has to stop. Probably through the ashes of a nuclear confrontation.
The Avenue des Champs Élysées, also known as the Champs Élysées or colloquially Les Champs, is a boulevard in the French capital of Paris. It is 70 meters wide and 1910 meters long. Located throughout its length in the 8th arrondissement, it begins at Place de la Concorde and ends at Place Charles-de-Gaulle. It forms the middle part of the axis historique between the obelisk (Place de la Concorde) and the Arc de Triomphe (Place Charles-de-Gaulle). In 1667, under Louis XIV and at the initiative of the minister Colbert, André Le Nôtre designed and built a second promenade further north, parallel to the Cours la Reine. Drawn exactly in the extension of the central avenue of the Tuileries Garden, this Grand-Cours, from which the Champs Elysées emerged, also formed a west-facing visual axis. In 1724, the garden axis of the Tuileries Garden was connected to the promenade and extended to the Place de l'Étoile (today Place Charles-de-Gaulle). At the end of the 18th century, the Champs Élysées became very popular, the mature clusters of trees now formed rectangular clearings (cabinets de verdure) and the gardens of the buildings in the Faubourg Saint-Honoré district bordered the park. At the end of the 19th century, the Champs Élysées became the boulevard and shopping street of aristocratic and upper-class Paris, which is also reflected in buildings such as the Grand Palais, built for the 1900 World Exhibition. The avenue itself has undergone several structural changes, most recently in 1993 when the sidewalks were widened. On July 20, 1975, the Tour de France ended on the famous road for the first time. In early 2021, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo announced that she would make the Champs Élysées pedestrian and environmentally friendly by 2030 at a cost of €250 million.
Hello from France again, here we learn at school about the Ceaușescu regime and couple, probably the worst tyrants in europe in recent history, as part of the post ww2 communist / soviet movement. I'm probably a little biased compared to younger generations, as i most certainly saw the 89 Romanian revolution on tv as a kid and the pictures and videos of the execution of the couple. I'm also a bit surprised that in your modern communist references, you did not mention China, which is to this day the only successful "communist" regime (besides the soviet union, if you consider it a success despite its fall), you could also mention Cuba to a lesser extent, that shows socialism "successes" (free education, free healthcare..) along with its definite communist flaws (organized poverty, absence of individual freedom..). If you're interested in having a little background about life in the soviet union, i can recommend a video i found not so long ago from a young Ukrainian woman (around 25 today) who interviewed here father about his childhood and early adult life in Soviet Ukraine, it's in russian but the automated subtitles are fairly well translated to english. ruclips.net/video/-mNek9acM1g/видео.html (channel Taya Ukraine) She also has many very nice videos about today's life in ukraine, in the country side. I should also mention that as expected there's a great deal of Soviet Union memorabilia on youtube and one of the most entertaining youtuber on that subject is certainly that english guy from the channel "Bald and bankrupt", if you've never watched one of his videos i can guaranty you an interesting journey in his twisted soviet fanboy mind. Jokes aside his videos are very nice, it's a lot about his trip and the (genuine) local people he meets on the street, and he occasionally stumbles upon something soviet (for example he absolutely loves soviet bus stops, train stations, chairs, sinks and bicycles). Personally i don't really care about that "lost soviet greatness" thing, it's never factual, and is a romanticized view of that era, that has more to do with how you would imagine a lost human civilization, than any thing soviet, but i highly recommend that you watch at least one of his older videos (he stopped making them not long ago but started again and as you can imagine he is no longer traveling russia at the moment, and i think he got banned at some point after being arrested trespassing some space shuttle base). (ah yes and as mentioned in other comments, the Champs-Élysee, is a reference to Paris main boulevard, and if you're in paris don't bother visiting it, there's really nothing to see, it's mainly a tourist trap, Parisians avoid it as much as they can, although if you get home sick it may remind you of the typical US road with its 6 car lanes, if so do enjoy a french McDonald's burger watching traffic)
Before the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, Romania was one of the most isolated and restrictive communist dictatorships with the craziest leader (Nicolae Ceaușescu), while also being the poorest country in Europe after Albania..Ceaușescuwas arrested by the angry people during the 1989 revolt, sentenced to death and finally executed. Even if you are a moderate person, you have to feel that this was fair. He was a monster. By the way': a dictator is a dictator, no matter if he calls himself left or right. Every idea in history has always been abused by nefarious criminals.
Champs Elisee is one of the most iconic boulevards in Paris, France...so that´s what they intented with the Victory's Boulevard in front of the palace of the parliament
Ceausescu getting shot was a formative memory, basically the second time I watched someone die for real on live tv. First time was the Challenger blowing up.
Concerning all this interesting question at the end, i am quite sure you'll find videos on youtube about the Romanian 1989 revolution. IDK any but i am sure they are out there.
The trial was filmed as well as their execution. The two were judged by a military tribunal that also had members from the leadership of the revolution (if I remember). They disappeared from public life a long time ago, I don't even know if they are still alive. It's been 34 years since then. Romania is much better now.
Nicolae Ceaușescu 5 February [O.S. 23 January] 1918 - 25 December 1989) was a Romanian communist politician and dictator. He was the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and the second and last communist leader of Romania. He was also the country's head of state from 1967, serving as President of the State Council and from 1974 concurrently as President of the Republic, until his overthrow and execution in the Romanian Revolution in December 1989, part of a series of anti-Communist uprisings in Eastern Europe that year. After being tried and convicted of economic sabotage and genocide, both were sentenced to death, and they were immediately executed by firing squad on 25 December. Peace out.
Well his ending was not as he expected. Transivania is a part of Romania. The basic idea, of everything belongs to everybody is quite nice, if everyone care for this. But two things are: There are always people who want to have more than others. There is always a political system, that gies down to one party, that is expected to do everything right and does not allow any criticism. As the party never makes a mistake, they even prolong their time in charge, as Putin just changed the law. Before there were only two time in charge as in the US. May be time is not right for this communism / socialism. We may have to wait until the time of Star Trek. There the humans do not work to get more, as you can create everything with energy. The people work together to develop, themselves and the community. That is may be a perfect world for socialism. The "bad guys" are the Ferengi, that are capitalists.
Champs Élysee in Paris, the capital of France. This street is used every year for the parade on July 14th. July 14, 1789, the day the Bastille was stormed, starting the French Revolution. The main idea of the French Revolution was: "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" - "Liberty, equality, fraternity". And then began the rise of Napoleon, who enslaved us poor Germans and brought us a lot of progress and new ideas.
im glad to see you reacting to this and maybe when you get time you come here to visit as well but for at least a week and you can visit the building as well
Yeap this is the thinking of a woke leftist, blm lover, trans aficionado who voted for a senile president who embarases himself and his country, biden over 50 years in poltics gaming the sistem with his crackhead son geting rich by coruption and compromise by foreign countries, in Trump presidency the middle class prospered, even from europe we see that,
To give you an idea of how bad Nicolae Ceausescu was, he was basically a newer version of Hi*ler, that should give you an idea of how evil and he was. Furthermore, 4:31, Communist leaders tended to make people "disappear" rather then telling them to leave. Nicolae had no issue with "reducing" the population when he wanted something done. Also, regarding the building, its not just concrete that makes it heavy, the building has an f ton of marble in it. That's also not including the massive
Romania was part of the Soviet east block. there is a good video that explains the difference between the subsections of Socialism (of wich comunism is a part of). also Transylvania is a region of what is now Romania. it used to be long to Hungry and earlier to the Ottoman Empire.
The cost is estimated at some 4 billion Euros in today's money, the US military budget for a single year is enough to build over 200 such buildings every year. There are plenty of ridiculous things going on today too. The oil industry receives trillions per year in subsidies globally, if you factor in the impact on nature. Air pollution causes some 9 million premature deaths per year globally but meh, we pretend to not notice.
Don't worry about not knowing the differences between socialism, Marxism, and communism. Trump and the other Republicans who think that the American left is in any way close to those ideologies don't have a clue either.
A point ov view from a romanian born (1990) and living in Bucharest: this phenomena of demolishing entire villages or parts of a city in communist era..., we don't need to learn about this in schools, because it is on our skin. We see this every day (the result), it's our reality: disrupted urban tissue, different buildings of any sizes and styles etc, trying every day to repair or to integrate, parents and grandparents speaking of how good was life before Ceausescu destroied their homes etc. Of course, in the academics is very well studied, in architecture, urban planning, sociology, politics etc. It was the biggest frog that we had to swallow from communists. And we drowned. That's why we shot our "leader". In this part of Europe, in "80s, the bigger the building and mess, the more violent the revolution it was. It was very messy and we today, children of that people, have a lot of work to clean that and fix those cities. Before that building, there was a cozy neighborhood, "Uranus Mahala and Spirea Hill", with old small houses, more or less decorated, more or less luxurious, churches, workshops etc. "Mahala" is a term (turkish origin) that describe a region of a city and a part of a society with a specific occupation. (ex: "Mahalaua Caramidarilor" = "Brickmaker's Neighbourhood"; "caramida" = "brick"). Today the building is pretty well integrated into society, used for parlament and social events, museums, exhibitions etc. Maybe is ugly, but, still can be used. It was build by our parents in final, not by that dictator. Even my dad worked to it. We have to accept it and use it as good as we can. Great video, and thank you!
so he Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife death was filmed and som film scenes of there killing was sent to world media and shown on tv among all here in sweden i remeber watchin it in swedich news media 25 december 1989 and The origins of the Champs-Élysées can be traced to 1640 when space was cleared to plant a line of trees, which would later become an avenue. The name translates to “Elysian Fields” from the Greek mythology, meaning resting place of Greek gods and dead heroes, similar to the Christian paradise. In 1724, the avenue was extended and acquired its current size and in 1994 the city renovated the street’s sidewalks, improving the Champs-Élysées considerably. Nowadays, its buildings are high-end stores, cafés and offices, ideal for shopping or going for a stroll down one of the most beautiful avenues of the city.
@@loners4life that will be nice also as much as possible in early summer cause now we got here like 35 c to 40 c almost everyday and it wont go down very soon
Romanian here,Transylvania is a part of Romania, and now we are a democracy but there is still a lot of corruption,but we have a president ,we are in the EU and in NATO, and the revolution happened in the whole country,every big city revolted,and the decision was made by the army and people, and people spread it around the country and stuff
There have been a great variety of "communist" states. Most are various flavors of autocracies or oligarchies dressed up in the clothes of outwardly good intentions. There's an old joke that any state with the terms democratic or people's republic in the name is probably neither, North Korea's hermit state for example is practically on homage to Orwell's 1984. As for most any for of governance I think it starts to lose stability as population grows in any system. Once our actions start to impact people we don't know an element of accountability gets diluted.
He was the last patriot, he also did some bad things but more good things for the country and the people, everyone had a job, a house, free medical insurance, free school, etc. no matter who would say it was bad, they are talking nonsense, foreigners make videos about him from stories and lies, real Romanians mourn him even today, you cannot raise a country from 0 without sacrifice, but many have not understood this 😏
communism is an idea that will never work in practice because at the root it is anti human nature, it requires for humans to acts against their natural instincts. small scale application is doable with low to no diversity, but control to maintain the idea must be forced externally the more scope increases. Which is why most long-term communist regimes are just that - regimes, ruling with fear that is the main control system to maintain the communistic ideas. And that kind of control has hefty price and we have historic evidence there is a limit population at large will always reach before the system crumbles, because humans are clever and will find better way out sooner or later...
Communism as a system is not evil, like at all. In fact its probably the most human system that exists. But Communism has 1 big flaw which is the human factor. In order to make Communism work you need 100% of the people who are in any administrative position to be 100% altruists and this is just impossible. Thats why we say that Communism is just an Utopia and will always, sooner or later fail due to the human aspect of governing.
That´s true, sadly! BTW: the phrase "Communism" as it is used by us has nothing to do with the real meaning. When Trump says "Communists", he thinks of people who he thinks are bad, when they are worse they are "Marxists". I´m still waiting that he names the worst people "Trotzkists", but maybe he doesn´t know the name. 🤔 States that we saw as "Communist Countries" were dictatorships most times.
There never was Communism ever in existence on our planet - all of this was Socialism, with the ultimate goal to make it to Communism at some (distant) point in time - which all of them failed. It is actually wrong to always call it that. The people in power may be called Communists - that's ok for the most part, but the system they build and managed wasn't.
Ask stupid questions, get stupind replies? Transylvania is a part of Romania, kinda hard to measure distance "between" them. Maybe emotionally distant, since it was "owned" by Hungary before?
Simplified, Socialism is a stepping stone towards Communism. Neither ruling systems has been practiced in the modern world. Anarchism though (An ideology closely related to Communism) was practiced fairly successfully in a village in South America for 10-20 years or so. The principle is basically You don't get to keep what you earn, but you will be provided with what you need. One could say that Capitalism makes you care about your home, car etc, since you own it, while Communism makes you care about the whole neighborhood, since you in a way owns Stock in it, I mean that's the theory... Many people gets confused about Communism contra Authoriatism. Authoriatism is when a leader, or group of leaders takes over and corruption becomes rampant, it happens in both left wing and right wing systems. Hitler's Germany, Putin's Russia, N Korea etc are examples of Authoriatism, not Communism.
That all sounds nice, but ownership also requires decision making. That's where it falls apart. If you collectively own everything (theoretically), you need someone to make decisions over all that you own as a group. And collectively owning your neighborhood doesn't mean a lot if it means you have no control over the house you live in. At the end of the day, control is going to be taken by the most powerful people, whether that is due to pure military might, corruption, or even just popularity. It is essentially the law of the jungle that decides on who that's going to be. And the same is true for anarchism. Both those theoretical systems in practice inevitably lead to authoritarianism.
@@jbird4478 It gets a bit complicated, since no use of Communism has been used, so who knows what it could lead to. However, I wasn't making any claims for or against any political systems, just trying to make a brief explanation to the Looners. Probably a bit off, I'm no expert.
@@matshjalmarsson3008you have socialism in France,Denmark,Noway and they are good but in order to have good socialism you need a politicians with a strong moral backbone!
@@tudor3232 Well, yes and no. It's not socialism, there are some socialist bits, like highish taxes and free healthcare and education in return, but all these countries are capitalistic
Under Ceausescu, Romania is the only country in the world that paid its national debt entirely in march 1989. For that, in december Ceausescu was killed.
No, he was killed because he was a dictator that killed thousands of Romanians and starved the entire country just to fulfill his megalomaniac desires.
Today Romania is the poorest country in the EU. Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife were villains Transylvania is a part of Romania But Ceausescu also went his own way of socialism, so he sometimes went in opposition to the Soviet Union - a bit like TITO from Yugoslavia. There is a story of the Romanian people: the Ceausescus took the blood of babies in their own bodies to become younger. In some aspects, Ceausescu can be compared to Erdogan The "Champs Elysee" is the boulevard in Paris that connects the Arc de Triumphe with the Place de la Concorde In my opinion, the killing of the Ceausescus was wrong. But some people have chosen to do so. It reminds me of Saddam Hussein, Muamar al-Gaddafi and Osama Bin Laden to the end.
@@halmati2288 :) Are you even European? The Republic of Moldova is not in the EU. Romania is not the poorest country in the EU. Romania is not even in the top 10 poorest countries in Europe. [Europe is not the same as EU].
@@RaduRadonys 1. Yes, I am 2. You are right! Moldova is now a EU accession candidate 3. You are also right: Romania is not the poorest country in the EU 4. Sorry, but I didn't write anything about Europe, I wrote "EU" from the start ;-) I made a lot of mistakes here I'm sorry for that It's good that you're paying attention and correcting Thanks very much! Have a nice day everyone - somewhere in the EU, in the middle of Europe. ;-)
You're naive. Communism is a noble idea, but it never ever can work in practice, and the explanation, leaving aside ideology, explanations, philosophy, etc., is plain and simple: we are all different, have different goals, different living standard ideals. However, when faced with the idea of having advantages and be "better than thou", no one can refuse irrespective of the level. Communism, therefore, developed a weapon: political police and prison. It ends up the same way, no matter where's applied. That's why I hate those defending the socialist and communist ideas all over the world. Translated into practice it just means they want the better piece of the bone.
As a romanian, if WW3 breaks out please redirect all nukes onto that specific building. We hate it and all the people who reside within that building (the most corrupt politicians within the EU). 😅
...in ROMANIA,in communist era,every new family with childrens(twoo,minim!) having a house,free!...just working...and not paying for electricity,gas and heating...What has wrong?....do have childrens?...in actually times,thousands families don't have a one children,because the rent of a house is too much for the salary!...the rent is a one and half,minimum salary...plus utilities,where are not free !...362 dollars neto,whith taxes,it's minim...and 47%...are having!...just too much teenagers into 21-45 years...but in Romania not will seeing homeless in downtown in every town!...they will suicide with the childrens for this!...
Not sure if you guys were even alive during Ceausescu's time. HIs best Christmas present to the people was his suicide on decemer 25, 1989. Lived in the country for a bit, avoided Bucharest as the pest, it is a horrible city, while there are so many nice spots in the country. And I have seen a lot of it, more as many people I dare say. 2 years ago even did a Hike of little over 1100km (way over 622 miles) called the Via Transilvanica, going from the North near the Ukrainian border al the way to the South near the Serbian border. The political climate has changed and is democratic in some form, though most politicians are still the old communists, just rebranding themselves as socialists, liberals and the like. But still money grabbing corrupt people. Even the DNA (anti-corruption agency) is corrupt like heck. And don't think everything changed for the better, as the Securitate (the old communist secret service) officially ceased to exist after 1989, and thus all files should be open for the public, ongoing files are not open. One wonders how it can be, that there are still open and ongoin files from an organisation that ceased to exeist over 2 decades ago. But I happen to know there are. (don't ask, as I won't tell) Lynda: don't talk about history. The problem is the different ethnicities. So who wrote the history books, for the schools. In Romania that is a very problematic topic. Let's just say, there are different histories, and it depends on who you want to believe. Bit like Stokers version of Dracula. He makes Grav Tepes III from Transilvania, where as that is historically incorrect. He was from Wallachia, and that county borders Transilvania, but as such is NOT Transilvania. Brian: theoretically there is nothing wrong with communism. The practical application has proven time and time again, that it is not good for the people at all. Or to quote Animal Farm (On Russian Communism), all are equal, but some are more equal than others. Also Marxism, is just another word for communism. Marx wrote with Engels, the communist manifesto. Hence the name Marxism. Lynda: if people should like you, than don't go communist. This era, and I think Ceauscu was worse as Gehorghiu-Dej, was not one where you could like anyone. YOu always had to be carefull what you would say, so as to make sure that you would not be reported to the Securitate or send to some sort of work camp. If you want to know a bit more, a very good book I suggest to read -> www.amazon.com/White-King-Novel-Gy%C3%B6rgy-Dragom%C3%A1n/dp/0618945172 The Champs-Elysees, is one of the main, if not most important road/boulevard in Paris. If memory serves created by Napoleon for his army. The wider the road, the easier tit would be for an army to pass through it. It houses the French Government. And yes, it was the whole country. The revolution started n Timisoara, near the Hungarian border. And believe me that is certainly not next to Bucharest, it is roughly 340 miles away.
They were shot not hang, Romania economically is divided in two, you have Transylvania with Banat that are quite riche regions at the same level as Spain and then you have the rest of Romania which is extremely poor.
Romania has overtaken Portugal and has had fairly constant economic growth since 2000 with a setback after the 2008 crisis. We are 12th in the EU based on GDP out of 27 countries and 44th globally. We are not a poor country by any means. We have a corrupt government and a bloated public servant system that mismanages our resources and a complacent population that refuses to vote. And @dacian_1346 Romania has 3 historical regions and several subdivisions: - Valahia (Wallachia): Oltenia and Muntenia - Moldova: Moldova and Bucovina - Dobrogea (Dobruja) - Transilvania: Banat, Crisana and Maramures. Transylvania and Muntenia (because the capital - Bucharest) are the most affluent regions. However the actual subdivisions of the country are 41 counties plus the capital. And the wealth distribution varies a lot. For example, Covasna, although part of Transylvania, is actually the poorest county in Romania.
@@Xayidee Covasna is the poorest county in Transylvania but compared to the rest of Romania is pretty wealthy too. Romania didn’t overtake Portugal yet, they almost did overtake Hungary ( not quite but by next year it’s supposed to have a greater gdp per capita than Hungary ), but to reach Portugal ( $26.012 ) still need at least 6 to 7 years with the same steady economic growth, Romania now has $18.530. It’s not poor but not wealthy neither, it can’t be considered a developed country yet, maybe by 2030.
there’s several predictions that we will overtake Portugal in 2024. I miss-worded that. If you check GDP / judet, Covasna is listed as last, but well… we know that could be misleading.
The Champs-Élysées boulevard in Paris, the dictator wanted it to be longer, now it is called Victory Boulevard in Bucharest, his model in infrastructure was North Korea. Romania has 3 large regions, these 3 regions are divided into several parts, but the 3 regions are Transylvania, Wallachia and Moldavia, Transylvania is in Romania. The parliament palace is used by the government only 20% of the building today The dictator was killed by the army and turned against him in a few days after the start of the revolution
The Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champs-%C3%89lys%C3%A9es For what I remember it was part of the Nomenklatura and armed forces that staged a coup? They was probably seeing eweryting going south anyway? And with one party states, one have to be a member of the party to advance.. so not everyone was hard core comunists?
"How far is Romania from Transilvania?"... In American terms you just asked how far the USA were from California.
Laughing my ass off dude!!
Transilvania is a region in Romania
1) Transilvania is a region of Romania about 200km from Bucharest
2) Yes , we learn about all this in school. No, no one likes Ceausescu .
3) The army seeing the whole country is revolting they laid down the weapons . Without any proof or documents after 1 hour they just said enough and executed both of them.
Theres a lot of history and many events. There's a documentary on youtube named " 30 years Since revolution" from recorder's channel. The documentary has english subtitles.
Wow! That’s crazy! Thank you for the info!
Hello! Transilvania is one of the regions in Romania. Dracula was inspired by one of our leaders Vlad the Impaler. You can visit anytime. Romania is pretty safe (aside from the ocasional pickpockets) and we are generally very friendly people.
Transylvania...........spelling................!
The nutter & his missus were executed.......... Nice One!
@@williamwilkes9873 in Romanian, it's Transilvania.
@@ladychristine1000 This is England..............we speak English!
@@williamwilkes9873 The arrogance. England doesn't have anything to do with Transilvania. English is also not the only language in the world. Don't be ignorant.
You really need to check up on the fall of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989. Not just in Romania (which was probably the most violent of these revolutions) but also all the other countries, that got rid of their communist leaders within a year. For those of us, who were alive during the Cold War, this was extremely significant and not something we're ever going to forget, but I had hoped that it would also be taught in history classes for the younger generations.
Remind them that. Splitting Europa into west and east was done after 2nd ww. Churchill, and usa did this deal with Stalin ."Half Europe is ours and the other half is yours" .. Germany was "cut" in half .
On the eastern END of Europe?! Bucharest is closer to London that to actual eastern end of Europe...
How is it possible you have never heard about Nicolae Ceaușescu...
and the (Avenue des) Champs Élysées, which is probably the most famous avenue in Paris (regarded as the most beautiful avenue in the whole world by a lot of people)? 😮
Simply because on the grand scheme of history, he wasnt that influential to be remembered as much as other leaders, and considering that it is from Romania, no leaders of any comunist country except china, cuba and ussr are teached in most school
I died when they asked how far is Romania from Transilvania, when Transilvania is literally in the heart of Romania XD
It's the same think with the gypsies think, they don't about it but talking 😂😂😂
No !, Wallachia (1859), Moldova (1859) or Transilvania (1690), no longer exist !, There is only one country named ROMÂNIA founded on January 24. 1859 ! Unitary state and point !
9:37 - A dictatorship is a dictatorship, it usually doesn't care much about political ideologies, and North Korea is an example of that.
Definitely true
Champs Elysees is the main street in Paris, France.
The revolution started in Timisoara and then it spread throughout the country very fast ( even if Ceausescu tried to stop it with soldiers, tanks, arrests and torture). It only lasted a few days but it was very violent. That's how angry/desperate the Romanian people were. Ceausescu and his wife tried to escape Bucharest with a helicopter but were caught in Târgoviște. There was a trial, mostly for show, then they were immediately taken outside, put against a wall and shot. Good riddance.
About one-fifth of the city was bulldozed to build the so-called House of the People, the surrounding buildings, and the grand avenue the leads into the distance from the palace, deliberately made wider and longer than the Champs-Élysee. Forty thousand residents were forcibly rehoused. Some buildings were uprooted and rebuilt in different locations; others remained and now stand at strange angles to the new buildings.
I don't know which episode it was but you talked about a metal festival and mentioned Serj from SOAD and i knew right away, I like these guys! He's one of my heroes. And I want you to know that I truly love your content ❤️ You both give off positive vibes and i cherish people who never stop learning. You probably won't read all this, sorry 😂
I'm in Spain, yet I haven't needed to learn about this in History books. I'm 52 and I've seen all of this in the spanish TV news when was happening over there.
There are 650,000 immigrants from Romania in Spain (1.3% of the population). Nowadays, Romania is a semi-presidential republic, or dual executive republic (like France).
They're a member of the European Union and plan is to move into the Eurozone and adopt the Euro as currency in 2029.
Lol, and they will fail in 2029, as they failed several times to get in to the Euro zone. Don't keep your hopes up on that. Even Bulgaria has a better chance.
Exactly: Romania was a one party system together with a political police. In other words this people had 2 choices: accept to give away their home/land or going into jail for some made up crime such as "counter revolution" or some crape like that.
Like today in Russia
There are documentaries about the 'revolutions of 1989' which put this in a wider context. The maker of this one seemed to assume that all that was already known.
"It really shows Communism in a bad light" There is no other way to view it.
Well thats nonsense and american red scare ideology.
why?
@@tolstoyedBecause between the gulags, summary executions, torture, starving the people to death and other such benefits that we had the opportunity to suffer, demolishing some houses and forcing people out was one of the least problematic.
Considering that Communism killed way over 100 million people it's pretty difficult to see it in a good light.
@@DukeOfTheYard all of that is stalin’s and mao’s fault, not communism
@@tolstoyed And Mao and Stalin were what? Communists.
Besides, it's not just them; apart from Mao and Stalin there was, Lenin, Pol Pot, Fidel Castro, Kim Il Sung and the other Kims, Wilhelm Pieck, Gheorghe Gheorghiu - Dej, Nicolae Ceausescu and so on.
Everytime a country, willingly or not, has become communist the result was always the same: dictatorship, famine, general bankruptcy, labour camps, widespread executions and a sea of suffering for 99.99% of the people.
Communism has never worked and never will work because, apart from being an unfair idea, is also an idiotic idea.
I've had the dubious pleasure of growing up in a communist country (from birth until I was 14 years old) and I've seen first hand what is what. I know the theory of it and I know the practice of it; both of them are horrible.
i would say if communism failed is because it needs leaders. Give power to anyone and they'll will take advantage of it to their own interest. So imagine giving away your all life: your time, your production, your knowledge.
How far is Romania from Transylvania? :))) You guys are really funny sometimes, not gonna lie :))
Transylvania is a region in romania, basically the entire area northwest from all the big mountains shown in the video.
1989 was the year communism fell in most of eastern european countries. While most of them threw their communist regimes peacefully, in Romania close to 1500 people died in a violent revolution that lasted for several days and pretty much ended December 25th with the execution of the Ceausescus in Targoviste, which by the way was Vlad the Impaler`s capital city in the Middle Ages. Ceausescu rulled Romania for almost 25 years and while his regime started with popular reforms and a turn toward the West ( at one point in the 70s Nixon even visited Romania and the country had the Most Favorite Country Clause given by the US) at the end on the 70s he started develloping a personality cult entertaining disastrous ideas like building these massive infrastructures that sapped the country`s budget and the people slowly started turning against him. Like others have mentioned Transylvania is one of Romanias historical regions and home to famous literary evil Count Dracula, a characted loosely based on Vlad Tepes, the Impaler who ruled Wallachia for a short period in the 15th century. I live in Sighisoara and it is common knowledge that Vlad spent part of his childhood here.
The Left started from standing at the left of the King of France. So the Left is against a Ruler (king, dictator,etc).
Yes, we do like Americas and you are very welcome. Romania is very friendly to tourists :)
I was smiling at the Transylvania comment, as did others here in the comments.
Dude Transilvania is in Romania 😅
I'm glad to see a beginning of differentiation of terms even among young Americans. Unfortunately in the world the examples of communism are all linked to dictatorships but it is the dictatorship that is the serious problem, similar if not worse monstrosities we find in all dictatorships of any political color. Communist parties within democracies have usually fought for good causes but sadly they were often infiltrated or linked to totalitarian regimes in the east. Communism has also generated great philosophers and ideologues and there are many who had an ideal of democratic communism, just think of Trosky or the Italian Gramsci, Trosky was assassinated by order of the PCR. From the point of view of Communism = evil, the former Warsaw Pact countries are the most fierce opponents because it is even easier for them to associate it with the dictatorship they have experienced and suffered, so even among Romanians I believe that the vast majority remember Chiacescu with contempt.
Hello Loners ! yes, you have people from Romania watching :)..i'm watching you're videos for a least a year, I like your content, I like you, you're really nice people :)..Ceausescu, the communist leader was killed in 1989 in the Romanian revolution, and since then you we are a democratic country in Eastern Europe bordering Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine, Bulgaria & the Black Sea. Near the city of Constanta (@ the Back Sea) we have a military base that's hosting a few thounsand American personnel & other nations. Maybe one day you will come and visit us :D like many other Americans did and who enjoyed our country and came back like (YTB channels) Sammy and Tommy, JetLag Warriors, Ways of the World, Ashley & Christian & many more. Wish you all the best from Romania, keep up the good work ! 👍💪 ♥
Unfortunately these kind of actions take place all around the world and with any government system. Romania just pulled the shortest straw in this case.
Ya sadly that is true
Romania is now part of the European Union and NATO and has a strategic partnership with the US. It is a completely different country to what it was during the communist era. It is also one of the most pro-American countries in Europe together with Poland. It is quite safe to visit as the country has extremely low gun violence and Romanians are very welcoming.
This also happens in the USA. They just call it "eminent domain." In the 1950s, Robert Moses built the Cross Bronx Expressway in NYC which demolished and/or split whole neighborhoods and displaced the people who lived in its path. The Bronx has not recovered to this day.
Yes, but the propaganda machine of the West does not care about this or their own people. Their goal is to show the "evil" world the superiority of the American dream, or system, so when they come to ask you to deliver your country and your future to them, you would not question. At some point this has to stop. Probably through the ashes of a nuclear confrontation.
The Avenue des Champs Élysées, also known as the Champs Élysées or colloquially Les Champs, is a boulevard in the French capital of Paris. It is 70 meters wide and 1910 meters long. Located throughout its length in the 8th arrondissement, it begins at Place de la Concorde and ends at Place Charles-de-Gaulle. It forms the middle part of the axis historique between the obelisk (Place de la Concorde) and the Arc de Triomphe (Place Charles-de-Gaulle).
In 1667, under Louis XIV and at the initiative of the minister Colbert, André Le Nôtre designed and built a second promenade further north, parallel to the Cours la Reine. Drawn exactly in the extension of the central avenue of the Tuileries Garden, this Grand-Cours, from which the Champs Elysées emerged, also formed a west-facing visual axis.
In 1724, the garden axis of the Tuileries Garden was connected to the promenade and extended to the Place de l'Étoile (today Place Charles-de-Gaulle).
At the end of the 18th century, the Champs Élysées became very popular, the mature clusters of trees now formed rectangular clearings (cabinets de verdure) and the gardens of the buildings in the Faubourg Saint-Honoré district bordered the park.
At the end of the 19th century, the Champs Élysées became the boulevard and shopping street of aristocratic and upper-class Paris, which is also reflected in buildings such as the Grand Palais, built for the 1900 World Exhibition. The avenue itself has undergone several structural changes, most recently in 1993 when the sidewalks were widened. On July 20, 1975, the Tour de France ended on the famous road for the first time.
In early 2021, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo announced that she would make the Champs Élysées pedestrian and environmentally friendly by 2030 at a cost of €250 million.
Wikipedia, what a great tool.
@@Jaycee-Bee In this case: yes, I confess. Otherwise I never did that. I'm a little ashamed. 😶🌫
@@PeterBuwen No need to be ashamed. It is a great tool.
Hello from France again, here we learn at school about the Ceaușescu regime and couple, probably the worst tyrants in europe in recent history, as part of the post ww2 communist / soviet movement. I'm probably a little biased compared to younger generations, as i most certainly saw the 89 Romanian revolution on tv as a kid and the pictures and videos of the execution of the couple.
I'm also a bit surprised that in your modern communist references, you did not mention China, which is to this day the only successful "communist" regime (besides the soviet union, if you consider it a success despite its fall), you could also mention Cuba to a lesser extent, that shows socialism "successes" (free education, free healthcare..) along with its definite communist flaws (organized poverty, absence of individual freedom..).
If you're interested in having a little background about life in the soviet union, i can recommend a video i found not so long ago from a young Ukrainian woman (around 25 today) who interviewed here father about his childhood and early adult life in Soviet Ukraine, it's in russian but the automated subtitles are fairly well translated to english.
ruclips.net/video/-mNek9acM1g/видео.html (channel Taya Ukraine)
She also has many very nice videos about today's life in ukraine, in the country side.
I should also mention that as expected there's a great deal of Soviet Union memorabilia on youtube and one of the most entertaining youtuber on that subject is certainly that english guy from the channel "Bald and bankrupt", if you've never watched one of his videos i can guaranty you an interesting journey in his twisted soviet fanboy mind.
Jokes aside his videos are very nice, it's a lot about his trip and the (genuine) local people he meets on the street, and he occasionally stumbles upon something soviet (for example he absolutely loves soviet bus stops, train stations, chairs, sinks and bicycles).
Personally i don't really care about that "lost soviet greatness" thing, it's never factual, and is a romanticized view of that era, that has more to do with how you would imagine a lost human civilization, than any thing soviet, but i highly recommend that you watch at least one of his older videos (he stopped making them not long ago but started again and as you can imagine he is no longer traveling russia at the moment, and i think he got banned at some point after being arrested trespassing some space shuttle base).
(ah yes and as mentioned in other comments, the Champs-Élysee, is a reference to Paris main boulevard, and if you're in paris don't bother visiting it, there's really nothing to see, it's mainly a tourist trap, Parisians avoid it as much as they can, although if you get home sick it may remind you of the typical US road with its 6 car lanes, if so do enjoy a french McDonald's burger watching traffic)
Before the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, Romania was one of the most isolated and restrictive communist dictatorships with the craziest leader (Nicolae Ceaușescu), while also being the poorest country in Europe after Albania..Ceaușescuwas arrested by the angry people during the 1989 revolt, sentenced to death and finally executed. Even if you are a moderate person, you have to feel that this was fair. He was a monster. By the way': a dictator is a dictator, no matter if he calls himself left or right. Every idea in history has always been abused by nefarious criminals.
Champs Elisee is one of the most iconic boulevards in Paris, France...so that´s what they intented with the Victory's Boulevard in front of the palace of the parliament
ELYSEE
Jeez. This is like watching two nine year old trying to learn history.
😂
One of my few claims to fame is that I (accidentally) jaywalked the Champs-Élysées and lived.
Ceausescu getting shot was a formative memory, basically the second time I watched someone die for real on live tv. First time was the Challenger blowing up.
When I went to school as a young lad 2002 - 2010 we did not learn about this at all.
If you want to know a little more about the end of communism in Europe, watch this short video - End of Communism: How 1989 Changed Europe
Romania is now part of the EU and members of NATO. They are staunch supporters of Ukraine - (Slava Ukraine)
Concerning all this interesting question at the end, i am quite sure you'll find videos on youtube about the Romanian 1989 revolution. IDK any but i am sure they are out there.
Romania? Just think of "Bram Stoker's - Dracula"(1992). Thats the original story from Dracula, inspired by Vlad Tepes. Really a great movie.
The trial was filmed as well as their execution. The two were judged by a military tribunal that also had members from the leadership of the revolution (if I remember). They disappeared from public life a long time ago, I don't even know if they are still alive. It's been 34 years since then. Romania is much better now.
Well considering what was the end of his reign, people weren't too happy with the plans. Last real toppling of a dictator in Europe.
Nicolae Ceaușescu 5 February [O.S. 23 January] 1918 - 25 December 1989) was a Romanian communist politician and dictator. He was the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and the second and last communist leader of Romania. He was also the country's head of state from 1967, serving as President of the State Council and from 1974 concurrently as President of the Republic, until his overthrow and execution in the Romanian Revolution in December 1989, part of a series of anti-Communist uprisings in Eastern Europe that year. After being tried and convicted of economic sabotage and genocide, both were sentenced to death, and they were immediately executed by firing squad on 25 December. Peace out.
Most of Transylvania is in Romania.
All of Transylvania is in today's Romania.
Well his ending was not as he expected.
Transivania is a part of Romania.
The basic idea, of everything belongs to everybody is quite nice, if everyone care for this.
But two things are:
There are always people who want to have more than others.
There is always a political system, that gies down to one party, that is expected to do everything right and does not allow any criticism.
As the party never makes a mistake, they even prolong their time in charge, as Putin just changed the law. Before there were only two time in charge as in the US.
May be time is not right for this communism / socialism.
We may have to wait until the time of Star Trek. There the humans do not work to get more, as you can create everything with energy. The people work together to develop, themselves and the community. That is may be a perfect world for socialism.
The "bad guys" are the Ferengi, that are capitalists.
Champs Élysee in Paris, the capital of France. This street is used every year for the parade on July 14th. July 14, 1789, the day the Bastille was stormed, starting the French Revolution. The main idea of the French Revolution was: "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" - "Liberty, equality, fraternity". And then began the rise of Napoleon, who enslaved us poor Germans and brought us a lot of progress and new ideas.
im glad to see you reacting to this and maybe when you get time you come here to visit as well but for at least a week and you can visit the building as well
Remember trump has the same view of 'his' people as Ceaușescu.
Nonsense, I am European.
@@smythharris2635?
Yeap this is the thinking of a woke leftist, blm lover, trans aficionado who voted for a senile president who embarases himself and his country, biden over 50 years in poltics gaming the sistem with his crackhead son geting rich by coruption and compromise by foreign countries, in Trump presidency the middle class prospered, even from europe we see that,
I saw that execution on television News at the time. Greetings from Finland. I´m sure it is easy to find out in youtube.
To give you an idea of how bad Nicolae Ceausescu was, he was basically a newer version of Hi*ler, that should give you an idea of how evil and he was. Furthermore, 4:31, Communist leaders tended to make people "disappear" rather then telling them to leave. Nicolae had no issue with "reducing" the population when he wanted something done. Also, regarding the building, its not just concrete that makes it heavy, the building has an f ton of marble in it. That's also not including the massive
He was inherently evil..........got sussed. & shot along with his dreadful wife...........neat....!
The trial and execution are filmed and you can see it by youtube
Romania was part of the Soviet east block. there is a good video that explains the difference between the subsections of Socialism (of wich comunism is a part of). also Transylvania is a region of what is now Romania. it used to be long to Hungry and earlier to the Ottoman Empire.
The cost is estimated at some 4 billion Euros in today's money, the US military budget for a single year is enough to build over 200 such buildings every year. There are plenty of ridiculous things going on today too.
The oil industry receives trillions per year in subsidies globally, if you factor in the impact on nature. Air pollution causes some 9 million premature deaths per year globally but meh, we pretend to not notice.
Don't worry about not knowing the differences between socialism, Marxism, and communism. Trump and the other Republicans who think that the American left is in any way close to those ideologies don't have a clue either.
Yeap!!! The woke-rs are bolshevics not communists!
THE MOST EVEL buildings in the WHOLE WORLD>..were the USA TWIN TOWERS ...they WENT DOWN in 2001 - 11- sep ! I SALUTE YOU from Romania !
A point ov view from a romanian born (1990) and living in Bucharest: this phenomena of demolishing entire villages or parts of a city in communist era..., we don't need to learn about this in schools, because it is on our skin. We see this every day (the result), it's our reality: disrupted urban tissue, different buildings of any sizes and styles etc, trying every day to repair or to integrate, parents and grandparents speaking of how good was life before Ceausescu destroied their homes etc. Of course, in the academics is very well studied, in architecture, urban planning, sociology, politics etc. It was the biggest frog that we had to swallow from communists. And we drowned. That's why we shot our "leader". In this part of Europe, in "80s, the bigger the building and mess, the more violent the revolution it was. It was very messy and we today, children of that people, have a lot of work to clean that and fix those cities. Before that building, there was a cozy neighborhood, "Uranus Mahala and Spirea Hill", with old small houses, more or less decorated, more or less luxurious, churches, workshops etc. "Mahala" is a term (turkish origin) that describe a region of a city and a part of a society with a specific occupation. (ex: "Mahalaua Caramidarilor" = "Brickmaker's Neighbourhood"; "caramida" = "brick"). Today the building is pretty well integrated into society, used for parlament and social events, museums, exhibitions etc. Maybe is ugly, but, still can be used. It was build by our parents in final, not by that dictator. Even my dad worked to it. We have to accept it and use it as good as we can.
Great video, and thank you!
so he Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife death was filmed and som film scenes of there killing was sent to world media and shown on tv among all here in sweden i remeber watchin it in swedich news media 25 december 1989 and The origins of the Champs-Élysées can be traced to 1640 when space was cleared to plant a line of trees, which would later become an avenue. The name translates to “Elysian Fields” from the Greek mythology, meaning resting place of Greek gods and dead heroes, similar to the Christian paradise.
In 1724, the avenue was extended and acquired its current size and in 1994 the city renovated the street’s sidewalks, improving the Champs-Élysées considerably. Nowadays, its buildings are high-end stores, cafés and offices, ideal for shopping or going for a stroll down one of the most beautiful avenues of the city.
You guys make me laugh so hard 😂😂😂.
Transilvania, it's a region in Romania.
visit romania with a guide and you should have answers too all those questions for sure
We will work on that! It looks like a beautiful place
@@loners4life that will be nice also as much as possible in early summer cause now we got here like 35 c to 40 c almost everyday and it wont go down very soon
Romanian here,Transylvania is a part of Romania, and now we are a democracy but there is still a lot of corruption,but we have a president ,we are in the EU and in NATO, and the revolution happened in the whole country,every big city revolted,and the decision was made by the army and people, and people spread it around the country and stuff
There have been a great variety of "communist" states. Most are various flavors of autocracies or oligarchies dressed up in the clothes of outwardly good intentions. There's an old joke that any state with the terms democratic or people's republic in the name is probably neither, North Korea's hermit state for example is practically on homage to Orwell's 1984.
As for most any for of governance I think it starts to lose stability as population grows in any system. Once our actions start to impact people we don't know an element of accountability gets diluted.
He was the last patriot, he also did some bad things but more good things for the country and the people, everyone had a job, a house, free medical insurance, free school, etc. no matter who would say it was bad, they are talking nonsense, foreigners make videos about him from stories and lies, real Romanians mourn him even today, you cannot raise a country from 0 without sacrifice, but many have not understood this 😏
There is video of execution. Also watch some video about communism so you know how "cool" it was. 😊
If you want to know about a country just type 'name of country, Wikipedia' in a search engine. Voila!
I was born when Neil Armstrong land on the moon...then, i live under comunist power, until 89'...after that, the color of the moon was brighter...😊
Transylvania is in Romania
How far is the heartland from the USA? 🤔
😂😂😂😂😂transilvania is in roumania😂😂😂😂😂
communism is an idea that will never work in practice because at the root it is anti human nature, it requires for humans to acts against their natural instincts. small scale application is doable with low to no diversity, but control to maintain the idea must be forced externally the more scope increases. Which is why most long-term communist regimes are just that - regimes, ruling with fear that is the main control system to maintain the communistic ideas. And that kind of control has hefty price and we have historic evidence there is a limit population at large will always reach before the system crumbles, because humans are clever and will find better way out sooner or later...
Make your reaction about "The most dangerous race on earth" TT Isle of Man. It´s unique in the world.
Cheers.
No wonder they shot him...
Champ Elysee is în PARIS , sir🎉🎉🎉
Communism as a system is not evil, like at all. In fact its probably the most human system that exists. But Communism has 1 big flaw which is the human factor. In order to make Communism work you need 100% of the people who are in any administrative position to be 100% altruists and this is just impossible. Thats why we say that Communism is just an Utopia and will always, sooner or later fail due to the human aspect of governing.
That´s true, sadly! BTW: the phrase "Communism" as it is used by us has nothing to do with the real meaning. When Trump says "Communists", he thinks of people who he thinks are bad, when they are worse they are "Marxists". I´m still waiting that he names the worst people "Trotzkists", but maybe he doesn´t know the name. 🤔
States that we saw as "Communist Countries" were dictatorships most times.
There never was Communism ever in existence on our planet - all of this was Socialism, with the ultimate goal to make it to Communism at some (distant) point in time - which all of them failed. It is actually wrong to always call it that.
The people in power may be called Communists - that's ok for the most part, but the system they build and managed wasn't.
If Trump only had the chance.
he was a lunatic
🇷🇴❤️
Transylvania is 54.4 km from Romania or 1hr 5 min by car. Peace out.
Ask stupid questions, get stupind replies? Transylvania is a part of Romania, kinda hard to measure distance "between" them. Maybe emotionally distant, since it was "owned" by Hungary before?
😂😂😂😂😂Transilvania is in România...😂😂😂
Simplified, Socialism is a stepping stone towards Communism. Neither ruling systems has been practiced in the modern world. Anarchism though (An ideology closely related to Communism) was practiced fairly successfully in a village in South America for 10-20 years or so.
The principle is basically You don't get to keep what you earn, but you will be provided with what you need.
One could say that Capitalism makes you care about your home, car etc, since you own it, while Communism makes you care about the whole neighborhood, since you in a way owns Stock in it, I mean that's the theory...
Many people gets confused about Communism contra Authoriatism. Authoriatism is when a leader, or group of leaders takes over and corruption becomes rampant, it happens in both left wing and right wing systems. Hitler's Germany, Putin's Russia, N Korea etc are examples of Authoriatism, not Communism.
That all sounds nice, but ownership also requires decision making. That's where it falls apart. If you collectively own everything (theoretically), you need someone to make decisions over all that you own as a group. And collectively owning your neighborhood doesn't mean a lot if it means you have no control over the house you live in. At the end of the day, control is going to be taken by the most powerful people, whether that is due to pure military might, corruption, or even just popularity. It is essentially the law of the jungle that decides on who that's going to be. And the same is true for anarchism. Both those theoretical systems in practice inevitably lead to authoritarianism.
@@jbird4478 It gets a bit complicated, since no use of Communism has been used, so who knows what it could lead to.
However, I wasn't making any claims for or against any political systems, just trying to make a brief explanation to the Looners.
Probably a bit off, I'm no expert.
@@matshjalmarsson3008you have socialism in France,Denmark,Noway and they are good but in order to have good socialism you need a politicians with a strong moral backbone!
@@tudor3232 Well, yes and no.
It's not socialism, there are some socialist bits, like highish taxes and free healthcare and education in return, but all these countries are capitalistic
@@tudor3232 Also, you don't really have Socialism there, it's Social Democratics, or Democratic Socialism Which are quite different from Socialism
Transylvania is Romania 😂
you guys look romanian people will try to talk to you in romanian
Under Ceausescu, Romania is the only country in the world that paid its national debt entirely in march 1989. For that, in december Ceausescu was killed.
No, he was killed because he was a dictator that killed thousands of Romanians and starved the entire country just to fulfill his megalomaniac desires.
Today Romania is the poorest country in the EU.
Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife were villains
Transylvania is a part of Romania
But Ceausescu also went his own way of socialism, so he sometimes went in opposition to the Soviet Union - a bit like TITO from Yugoslavia.
There is a story of the Romanian people: the Ceausescus took the blood of babies in their own bodies to become younger.
In some aspects, Ceausescu can be compared to Erdogan
The "Champs Elysee" is the boulevard in Paris that connects the Arc de Triumphe with the Place de la Concorde
In my opinion, the killing of the Ceausescus was wrong. But some people have chosen to do so. It reminds me of Saddam Hussein, Muamar al-Gaddafi and Osama Bin Laden to the end.
România is not the poorest country, The Republic of Moldova is.
@@ladychristine1000 Right, thank you. I am sorry about my fault!
@@halmati2288 :) Are you even European? The Republic of Moldova is not in the EU. Romania is not the poorest country in the EU. Romania is not even in the top 10 poorest countries in Europe. [Europe is not the same as EU].
@@RaduRadonys
1. Yes, I am
2. You are right! Moldova is now a EU accession candidate
3. You are also right: Romania is not the poorest country in the EU
4. Sorry, but I didn't write anything about Europe, I wrote "EU" from the start ;-)
I made a lot of mistakes here I'm sorry for that It's good that you're paying attention and correcting Thanks very much! Have a nice day everyone - somewhere in the EU, in the middle of Europe. ;-)
You're naive. Communism is a noble idea, but it never ever can work in practice, and the explanation, leaving aside ideology, explanations, philosophy, etc., is plain and simple: we are all different, have different goals, different living standard ideals. However, when faced with the idea of having advantages and be "better than thou", no one can refuse irrespective of the level. Communism, therefore, developed a weapon: political police and prison. It ends up the same way, no matter where's applied. That's why I hate those defending the socialist and communist ideas all over the world. Translated into practice it just means they want the better piece of the bone.
As a romanian, if WW3 breaks out please redirect all nukes onto that specific building. We hate it and all the people who reside within that building (the most corrupt politicians within the EU). 😅
...in ROMANIA,in communist era,every new family with childrens(twoo,minim!) having a house,free!...just working...and not paying for electricity,gas and heating...What has wrong?....do have childrens?...in actually times,thousands families don't have a one children,because the rent of a house is too much for the salary!...the rent is a one and half,minimum salary...plus utilities,where are not free !...362 dollars neto,whith taxes,it's minim...and 47%...are having!...just too much teenagers into 21-45 years...but in Romania not will seeing homeless in downtown in every town!...they will suicide with the childrens for this!...
Get help.
Not sure if you guys were even alive during Ceausescu's time. HIs best Christmas present to the people was his suicide on decemer 25, 1989. Lived in the country for a bit, avoided Bucharest as the pest, it is a horrible city, while there are so many nice spots in the country. And I have seen a lot of it, more as many people I dare say. 2 years ago even did a Hike of little over 1100km (way over 622 miles) called the Via Transilvanica, going from the North near the Ukrainian border al the way to the South near the Serbian border.
The political climate has changed and is democratic in some form, though most politicians are still the old communists, just rebranding themselves as socialists, liberals and the like. But still money grabbing corrupt people. Even the DNA (anti-corruption agency) is corrupt like heck. And don't think everything changed for the better, as the Securitate (the old communist secret service) officially ceased to exist after 1989, and thus all files should be open for the public, ongoing files are not open. One wonders how it can be, that there are still open and ongoin files from an organisation that ceased to exeist over 2 decades ago. But I happen to know there are. (don't ask, as I won't tell)
Lynda: don't talk about history. The problem is the different ethnicities. So who wrote the history books, for the schools. In Romania that is a very problematic topic. Let's just say, there are different histories, and it depends on who you want to believe. Bit like Stokers version of Dracula. He makes Grav Tepes III from Transilvania, where as that is historically incorrect. He was from Wallachia, and that county borders Transilvania, but as such is NOT Transilvania.
Brian: theoretically there is nothing wrong with communism. The practical application has proven time and time again, that it is not good for the people at all. Or to quote Animal Farm (On Russian Communism), all are equal, but some are more equal than others. Also Marxism, is just another word for communism. Marx wrote with Engels, the communist manifesto. Hence the name Marxism.
Lynda: if people should like you, than don't go communist. This era, and I think Ceauscu was worse as Gehorghiu-Dej, was not one where you could like anyone. YOu always had to be carefull what you would say, so as to make sure that you would not be reported to the Securitate or send to some sort of work camp. If you want to know a bit more, a very good book I suggest to read -> www.amazon.com/White-King-Novel-Gy%C3%B6rgy-Dragom%C3%A1n/dp/0618945172
The Champs-Elysees, is one of the main, if not most important road/boulevard in Paris. If memory serves created by Napoleon for his army. The wider the road, the easier tit would be for an army to pass through it. It houses the French Government.
And yes, it was the whole country. The revolution started n Timisoara, near the Hungarian border. And believe me that is certainly not next to Bucharest, it is roughly 340 miles away.
Suicide ?? He was executed my guy
Ceausescu was a nice guy. He was loved by his people, he was admired for his wisdom and I think they executed him totally by accident.
Yes, they shot him by accident, they actually wanted to shot you, you lucky bastard.
Ceaușescu de best lider for România.Comunism is de best sistem .
Have you bought your plane tickets to North Korea yet?
Caucescu and his wife were hanged. Transylvania is part of of Romania. Romania is still very poor country so a lot of them are working abroad.
They were shot not hang, Romania economically is divided in two, you have Transylvania with Banat that are quite riche regions at the same level as Spain and then you have the rest of Romania which is extremely poor.
@@Qwerty1637i you like to eat sh*t, don't you?
Romania has overtaken Portugal and has had fairly constant economic growth since 2000 with a setback after the 2008 crisis. We are 12th in the EU based on GDP out of 27 countries and 44th globally. We are not a poor country by any means. We have a corrupt government and a bloated public servant system that mismanages our resources and a complacent population that refuses to vote.
And @dacian_1346 Romania has 3 historical regions and several subdivisions:
- Valahia (Wallachia): Oltenia and Muntenia
- Moldova: Moldova and Bucovina
- Dobrogea (Dobruja)
- Transilvania: Banat, Crisana and Maramures.
Transylvania and Muntenia (because the capital - Bucharest) are the most affluent regions.
However the actual subdivisions of the country are 41 counties plus the capital. And the wealth distribution varies a lot. For example, Covasna, although part of Transylvania, is actually the poorest county in Romania.
@@Xayidee Covasna is the poorest county in Transylvania but compared to the rest of Romania is pretty wealthy too. Romania didn’t overtake Portugal yet, they almost did overtake Hungary ( not quite but by next year it’s supposed to have a greater gdp per capita than Hungary ), but to reach Portugal ( $26.012 ) still need at least 6 to 7 years with the same steady economic growth, Romania now has $18.530. It’s not poor but not wealthy neither, it can’t be considered a developed country yet, maybe by 2030.
there’s several predictions that we will overtake Portugal in 2024. I miss-worded that. If you check GDP / judet, Covasna is listed as last, but well… we know that could be misleading.
The Champs-Élysées boulevard in Paris, the dictator wanted it to be longer, now it is called Victory Boulevard in Bucharest, his model in infrastructure was North Korea.
Romania has 3 large regions, these 3 regions are divided into several parts, but the 3 regions are Transylvania, Wallachia and Moldavia, Transylvania is in Romania.
The parliament palace is used by the government only 20% of the building today
The dictator was killed by the army and turned against him in a few days after the start of the revolution
Worth watching on YOUTUBHE - Bald and Bankrupt "Solo Through Romania's Dark Past"
The Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champs-%C3%89lys%C3%A9es
For what I remember it was part of the Nomenklatura and armed forces that staged a coup?
They was probably seeing eweryting going south anyway?
And with one party states, one have to be a member of the party to advance.. so not everyone was hard core comunists?