My Romanian roommate had a poster that roughly translated said “Steal the wheels of the Communist Party” also he somehow had a nose wheel from a Mig-15. He really owned the stereotype.
My grandfather was sent to silence the protesters in TImisoara. They were given crossbars but when they arrived the protestatars gave them meat (a luxury back then) so they defected
My Grandparents were part of the people that were waiting in the train station with hot tea and bread for when the trains full of Miners, Farmers, Workers, and other people who were given bats and metal bars put on a train, told that the Hungarians have Invaded and that Hungarians have taken over Timisoara and sent to there to beat the shit out of them. When those people did not see any fighting but people waiting for them on a cold December morning with hot tea or coffee and warm bread they switched sides and joined the people.
My father was sent to defend a rafinery near Pitesti during the revolution. He and his friends got bored and started to shoot a light bulb outside, whitch scared some other soldiers that started to shoot around them in panic.
Communism in Romania: *ends* Romanians: We're free! Iliescu and his party: I wouldn't say free, more like under new management. As always, great video.
didn't have much of a choice, it's basically what would happen if north korea had a revolution, same cult of personality, same dictatorial grip on power.
My statics professor is Romanian and he mentioned the revolution offhand one day. I thought it was crazy that I knew a person who had been through something like this
Know the feeling lol My Chinese teacher was a former journalist for a local newspaper... in Beijing, China... on June 4th, 1989 He definitely saw some stuff
My dad appears front and center in a lot of photos from the1989 revolution in Bucharest, proud to be his son, he did that for the well being of his family.
I know a lot of people who participated in the Romanian revolution. What I don't know with certainty is on which side they really were ... or on what day of December they switched sides. There is so much desinformation and lies around, that it almost impossible to find out the real truth.
Fun fact,the romanian rationing system didn't just ration food,it rationed electricity,as people only got 2 hours of electricity per day,and water,as people would get running water on certain days
Romania like all the countries are only slaves for those who really rule the planet!! The big fight like u see wit ur own eyes IS Between USA And RUSSIA!! every single word against what i'm sayin' here is equal to zero! May God bless all of us to stop this sick and criminal war maded bi ILLUMINATTI!! Wake the f.. up PEOPLE!!! God save us all! 🙏🙏🙏🇱🇷🤝🇷🇺
@Âroma That's complete nonsense. During the worst years (1984-1989) electricity was rationed only in the winter, and even then for one hour in the evening, in some days of the week. The savings were effective because many households used electricity for heating in the winter. Now obviously, this policy was idiotic - whatever was saved in the 80s was spent in the 90s for no additional benefit.
@@danoprea3066 Eu însumi n-am trăit prin regimul comunist,doar am zis ceea prin ce au trecut bunicii și părinții mei,după spusele lor,aveau doar 2 ore de curent electric în timpul zilei
ratiile, desi o decizie proasta, aveau un scop concret care ajuta tara - platirea datoriilor la FMI ca sa nu fim prinsi in debt trap cum pateste acum Sri Lanka de exemplu din partea FMI-ului si World Bank
As a Timisorean I'm deeply touched by the amount of work you put into this. It goes without saying that I'm extremely proud of my city and what its people managed to do and I hope that we continue to carry this legacy.
Fun fact: if a woman was above a certain weight, her food ration would have been smaller. Butter was a luxury, meat also. I had 3 aunts, a teacher, a nurse, and one working at a meat factory. The one working at the meat factory was fabulously wealthy for that time, with fur coats, a car and, hold your horses, a JVC video player. While she had bags of money(Literally, bags of money) the other two couldn't afford clothes.
Damn, that's dark. I never knew why my grandmother eats so much butter and meat. I knew about foreign fruits, like bananas and oranges, but I thought a country with many farmers and shepherds would have no issues with those foods.
@@limpchees No farms in communism, just one big farm called CAP or colectiv. THat means farms were all made and controlled by state. And food was exported, that's why the shortage.
Sorry my friend, but what are you talking about. That was an all-out war between Romania and Hungary in 1919 and Romania occupied a large part of Hungary.
Considering how last Romanian dictator ended up makes me smile. I like how these communist always start with " Fight against elites" but than becomes next elites "but we're different" lol.
@@Snp2024 Most communists are not totalitarian. Bolshevik tendencies make up only one out of three of the major tendencies of the communist movement, the other two being Orthodox Marxism, which advocates for a rule-of-law type of organization based on working class councils, and Anarchism, which advocates for a social structure based exclusively on the will of those participating in it to participate in it. The reason why the experience with "communism" has been so traumatic in the past is that, after 1917, Bolsheviks monopolized the whole of the movement and favored their goons getting in charge of socialist countries instead of letting the working class decide for itself, which is what Orthodox Marxists and Anarchists advocated for. You can't force people to accept a political structure, no matter what that is; otherwise, authoritarianism, be it direct or indirect, arises.
My parents who you could say got the better end of communism, mom being part of the younger side of the Party and dad being in the military, say it wasn't that bad.... yet my fridge is ALWAYS full of stuff we don't eat. "Why not have x in case you want to eat it?" After years and years they still struggle to understand the "we buy it when we need it" idea. That's how bad the childhood was. Even when as young adults they were theoretically in the higher society, you can still see the effects of such a bad childhood.
My grandmother lives in Czechia and keeps a freezer totally stuffed with meat and cheese because when there was meat available during communism they would buy as much as possible and freeze it. She also has a cabinet full of tissues, napkins and toilet paper because those products were in short supply sometimes as well. She has a lot of money saved up and lives off a good pension but still does whatever she can to save money. Even though her, my grandfather, mother and uncle lived relatively well compared to other Czechs at that time she can't let go of her old habits learned through hardship.
it wasn't communism tho looool you dickheads always love talking about "how hard life is under communism" when it's just state capitalism. dumb yutes wallahi
Actually most Romanians are ashamed of what was done on the holy day of Christmas. It could have been done on any other day AFTER Christmas, but the atheist, Marxist-Leninist Bolsheviks who were behind the coup d'état in December 1989, some of them educated and indoctrinated in Moscow universities, some of them just minions of the GRU or the KGB, were not used to celebrate and respect Christmas, Passover/Easter or any other holy and religious moment. PS: Serbs reach for an AK . Romanians reach for a bardă or a sica (dagger)
And every European Country should take exmple. Including modden day Romania.... We (the balkans) could've been so much... but we are still the drunk uncle at the party of the rich relatives
@@ApoRekt decades/centuries of fighting each other and now the "open minded" western/central Europeans opening the floodgates to hostile migrants hasn't helped.
imagining the feeling of like 100,000 people watching him silently and then one person and then more people booing is almost euphoric rn, almost feels like im getting myself high
To me it's crazy how I can literally just go to my parents and ask them what was life during Ceausescu, to then have them reveal bits and pieces of information that wasn't told me when I was younger, like how my mom's family was spied by the Securitate and she learned that when her neighbor admitted of being an informant not too long after the revolution. Almost everything said by Gelu in this video is exactly how my parents would also describe it.
My great grandfather was a priest during that time, and he and his family had to flee numerous times. My grandmother once told me that while running, they took shelter at an elderly couple for a few hours, but my great grandpa decided that they had to leave in the middle of the night. The next morning, the secret police invaded the elderly couple’s home and killed them both.
Can we get a capitalism one too? We defeated imperialism at least here in Ireland. Could've came before we lost half our population to British capitalist policies, but oh well
@tempejkl First off, Ireland is still capitalist, and second, Imperial Britain practiced mercantilism. As an American, I have a dislike toward the colonial Brits, but what they did to their colonies was not in the name of capitalism.
Besides Timisoara and Bucharest, there was an attempt to start a protest in Iasi too. It was to take place on the 14th in a Thursday, thinking that more people would join compared to if it were held during the weekend. The plotters, a group of engineers, had plans for wider protests against the regime throughout the country. They went as far as to print leaflets, calling the people to join in. It seemed to go smoothly until, just as they were about to start the protest, they were met by the Securitate agents. Two days later, without knowing at all about the events in Iasi, protests would errupt in Timisoara, sparking the official beginning of the Revolution. Also, fun fact: The Securitate was extremely paranoid about the revolt spreading to Bucharest and reasoned that the train was the most likely means of transportation for protesters to take. And they were right: a day before they enforced martial law, a group of three students boarded a train that was heading to Bucharest, to spread the word. They were the first to let the Bucharestians know about the revolt in Timisoara, which inspired them to start their own :)
I was in Romania for a few months at the MK airbase on NATO orders. It's a nice Country, what I found interesting is that around the Airbase there's old abandoned trucks and fighters alot with engines just rusting away at some parts of the base.
As you can see in the current Russian-Ukrainian war, rusting in place is a specialty in Eastern Europe. Anyway, I hope you had some leave time to go visit other parts of Romania, which are a lot more interesting. If not, you are welcome to come visit. All the best and thank you for your service.
Although Greece is never associated with Eastern Europe, my cousin living there who is still undergoing military training said that the guns they were given were so rusty that they couldn't even fire them. Not to mention, the amount of junk food places near the base made him gain a few kgs too. His unit will be done training in the next week or so.
Great Respect for the Romanians from Hungary. What I do find sad tho that even though the message was far more clear than a calm system change, only one head of the hydra was cut, and the rest of the leadership remained.
Some astute people realized that old commie remained in power and tried to continue the revolution. Unfortunately most people were not astute, like those miners, and sided with Iliescu.
This video is not just fantastically well made, informative, funny & detailed on its own merits but also it works beautifully as a companion piece to the recent BaldAndBankrupt video from Romania. Thank you Gospodine!
People of Romania can really be proud of this story, being brave and standing up for themselves. "Régi mániám" is still a catchy tune, but it's not the same without Ceaușescu.
Wow! Your romanian pronunciation improved so much. I remember your video "I visited Romania so you don't have to" I remember you struggled to pronounce the names of cities. Now you pronounce them better. Also good job for making your homework! The army joined the protesters. Everything was given in rations: electricity, food, water, meat in cans, there was one bread or two per family per day. I do not remember which is true from the tales my grandparents told me. There was a mass grave discovered in the days of the revolution. The head of the secret Police 'ufffed' himself for failing to defend communism. Securitate was shooting the people. They came dressed as army men, in order to create chaos and discourage the people from revolting. But i know you put in the video more easy to take facts, as RUclips is a kindergarten, mentions of violent acts will be seen as offensive and your video might be taken down for graphic content and hate speech. I hate this kindergarten and offenfed culture!
The mass grave wasn't related to the revolution, it happened a few months prior because of an accident(I don't exactly remember what it was, but you can search it up) and the head revolutionaries said those people where protesters from Timisoara massacred to make the people even more angry and create even more chaos.
Interesting to see how under Ceausescu's rule Romania's development declined due to forced relocation, exhausted export policy and low living standards just to keep the promised production quota, whereas Kádár on the other placed great emphasis on the social life (not that he had any choice, since he didn't want to share the same fate as Rákosi). But from the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter, because both of them crippled the country by asking for loans.
@@elenabibescu1848 It was the Romanian Securitate loyal to the dictator. By being outside those days the Ceausescu regime was ended. People in Timisoara and Bucuresti also did nothing, but be on the streets, but that meant everything, and only thanks to them me and you can enjoy the freedom to write whatever on a website such as RUclips. People in North Korea, Ceausescu's model country, still don't have this luxury.
@@nydydn Securitate betrayed Ceausescu since 88. If they acted, acted in the favour of CIA,& others, because they wanted to assassinate Ceausescu. Do you know how was Romanian if the western countries did not destroy Romania? i prefer to live in peace, nit in this false democracy. We are here because CIA & UK,,, kill ad killed million of innocent people. .
My father was involved in the rebbelion, as a photographer.He can tell about this , and his story(for hours❤) I'm a Székely myself, I respect the history of this country.
I'm neither Romanian, nor do I have that many Romanian friends that I could know about any of this but holy shit dude. After this video? My respect for Romania has just skyrocketed.
"I have no idea of the situation, but let me give my complete opinion on it completely disregarding the experiences of those who lived there and the knowledge of those who have looked into it intensively" If you aren't British or American, i'd be suprised
@@concept5631 Considering I’ve talked to Romanians who praised the communist times ( some of them ) and ive also talked to those who loathe the current system ( almost all of them ), I’d say they are disregarding some experiences
@@socire72not true at all i can assure you we hate everything about communism here in Romania. People that enjoyed it usually had some connections to the Securitate
I'm romanian and I gotta say this video explained it perfectly, its nice seeing someone foreign know so much about the country! I'm very relieved I didn't have to live in days like that, my grandpa and even my mom told me how hard it was during that time, Ceaușescu deserved his fate. Keep informing people! 👌
@@thotslayer9914 Romania was already very anti russian and the conflict in Ukraine just boosted that to no limits. The day the war started I went to class and the only thing everyone talked about, including the professors, was if the conflict was going to reach Romania. A big part of Russia's aggression revolves around The Black Sea, which is mostly controlled by Romania and Turkey together, although Romania has the more influence and control in the parts where Russia wants it. There have already been multiple Romanian cargo ships attacked by "accident" by Russia since the beginning of the war, and thousands since Putin took power. There's also the topic of our brothers and sisters up in the republic of Moldova. Despite it being a different state, the Republic of Moldova is half of what is the actual territory of Moldova which is shared between Romania and The Republic of Moldova and people from the region consider themselves Moldovian regardless of which side of the border they are on, I'm Moldovian myself. Although the Republic hasn't joined back up with the Country due to reforms getting shafted by the Russians (of course), Romania has made it clear that they consider the Republic extremely close and almost is territory and if the conflict in Ukraine bleeds out into the Republic, its very likely Romania will get involved regardless of Nato plans.
@@elsienova4269 I'm late but that's true, most romanians consider moldovans beyond the Prut river (for people that dont know, the Prut river is the border between Romania and Moldova) part of the country. There's basically no border and a large amount of romanians want Moldova to unite with us. Russia and even the Soviet Union are seen as aggressor countries and that we only wanted to defend our rightful lands from. I for one agree with that statement, the suppression of moldovans in the Soviet Union was very infuriating to learn about.
@Andy Ash No, it was totally not the "golden age" If you were to ask me really, statistically speaking our golden age would be now, Romania is far better off now than at any point in its history. Politically, however, I'd say our golden age would be the interwar period (Belle Epoque) Either way, our communist period was definitely not our golden age, Ceaușescu built the Bucharest metro very poorly, paid loans off of peoples' plates, they were starving while he was sitting in his luxurious house. As one romanian literary writer, Fănuș Neagu, put it "Communism did one thing right.. made us equal, in poverty." Ceaușescu was nothing but a dictator profiting off of the people, he did industrialise but that was the only thing he did fairly decently, and that would have happened without him in charge anyway.
@@Aerumoraand what is romania's debt today ? Would u called a country where people r forced to emigrate for a better life living in its golden period ?
Yes!!! What a great day it is to see you posted another video! I can barely contain my joy! Great video as always János! You are so dedicated to your subscribers to take your time to read each comment and to produce such top quality content, thank you.
You forgot about Ceaucescu's crazy palaces - I think he had 70 of them all over the country. The most infamous one was the "Palace of the People" - of course, for him and his family only - and it was so big he could not even HEAT it!
He did not lived there but the legend says he wanted to move there with his elite. Now the parliament is there, in a small area of course, the rest is empty. And what you see, that huge building is just the foundation, it is not finished and most likely it will never be.
It is very large and made of very heavy materials like marble, so it actually sinks a bit into the ground every year. I've been there on a school trip, but I couldn't enjoy that trip considering I lived in a commie block surviving with my grandma and her small pension. Impressive architecture but at what cost.
The first couple of years of Ceausescu's leadership were actually pretty nice. He could have been a real leader and maybe he could get away from Russian influence, but his holiday in North Korea in 1971 made him go a bit insane. He saw how North Korea dictator was seen almost like a God by his people. Ceausescu came back with a God complex and with wrong ideas. Without that holiday he could have been a good leader. Or not. Who knows?
My grandfather told me that when it was the time of communism, the peasants lived better than those from the city because the peasants had gardens and animals but the townspeople did not.
bingo. you are on the right track. Unfortunately some people in Switzerland are attempting to show us how to eat ze bugz, own nothing, and somehow be happy. Oh and big Bill is now a farmer.
City people had relatives in country. They left the country for city. So they took products from their relatives. But nobody had enough except "nomenclatura" aka some sort of communist elite. I lived my first 10 years in country side under commie and I can tell you my parents provided enough to not be hungry but the desire for some rare foods and sweets was always present. Imagine you only have oranges in the night of new year and banana maybe never. In general protein sources were scarce and you had to be creative to make something nourishing with what you have. Irony, that was more healthy than today abuse with junk food.
We are not there yet in Western Europe but this starts to sound way too close to current reality 😂 Welp, it's still gonna be fine until the social state is completely out of money.
@@SilverBullet93GTOh? That's funny, because that's capitalism. You cannot own your home in most capitalist countries anymore. Most have to tone down the amount of food eaten to less than recommended. You can't even own a movie, you have to rent it. Those ideas were propagated by the WEF... which is a distinctly capitalist organisation. I'm shocked the amount of times someone will bring up capitalism and use it as a criticism for socialism.
@@LibertyDinothat's literally capitalism. Communism doesn't have social states. You own your labour instead of having your labour value extracted by a lazy businessman. The only people who would get support are those who simply cannot work.
The fostercare in communist Romania is the most underated topic in todays Romania. Many children lost their lives or lived with permanent psychic or psychic sequelae, they were exploited in the fields, put to work like slaves, and whipped if they stopped. Others were selled or they're organs harvested. After they survive 18 years in that imprisonment, will be throw out in the streets to beg and die in the cold, the lucky few, find an compound to work, in which they will have a room to sleep, without heat or warm water. At 20 they will do their service in the army... in which many would cannot work and just put on reserved, cause in those years you needed to have a connection, so back to the streets you go. Alone, hated and despised, having no one, many gave up, killed themselves or waited to die like dogs in the streets. That government and their successors killed my sister, murder my parents childhood's, destroyed their families, those people are still in charge of that country, laughing, eating and fucking, they're monsters, and what is sad, that in all countries there are still the same wolfs in sheep cloths, I hope time will exterminate them and their families, cause to much blood was spilled, and so little answered. Have a nice life friends, the future is bright in some way.
As a Hungarian, I thank you for opening my eyes about romanian people. They are far braver and stronger than I tought (Still not as stronk as seebians tho)
Maybe romanians are strong, but Hungarians are the bravest people of all time. They are so brave, that they are trusting romania and Italy as allies for the 3rd time, even though they both betrayed them already twice.
@@bazsamester it's called tactical team switching. If you've got more to gain by switching teams, why not do it? Be smart bro, look what loyalty did to Hungary.
No hate to Romania or Romanians, but why? Romania is one of the poorest European countries, it has no industry, it isn't a politic power, it isn't such big
@@Neukend it really started improving in this few couple of years. PS: I don't know from what country you are, but Romania and it's people had a very big role in the history of the region, if not the continent or world, and I think you should search up more about it before starting saying shi on the internet, cus maybe you even wouldn't have been born and spoke right now if Romania didn't do what it did so much in the past!
@@Neukend what? It's literally one of the richest European nations, with the 6th largest economy in Europe, and also one of the largest industries in the developed world in terms of rate, also don't know what you mean by political power, this isn't hoi4. It's bigger than all the nations around it except Ukraine.
@@tortellinifettuccine yeah, largest economy, but it's GDP rank in Europe is 32 out of 45. About the industry, surely Romania has one, it produces cars and as i understood even planes. The problem is that the companies in fact are foreign. At example Romania has a company called dacia which produces cars. But, it is a brench of renault. So France owns 100% of that company. And the same with all other companies. By political power I meant it's independence. As Romania is a part of EU and NATO it is limited by it's political decisions. It is just a puppet as it was under the soviet leadership. Some people are saying that Romania has great history people and landscapes. We surely weren't talking about it's touristic abilitys.
Fun Fact : Even though their deaths weren't televised ,years after their execution, a mixtape was found showing them pleading like bitches before being shot .Uncensored . And it is on youtube. As a romanian i love this video and wish that u could do more of our wonderful nation🇷🇴🇷🇴
@@ulester3092 okay ,i have been wrong ,cause from what i found there is no uncensored version on youtube bc of obvious TOS ,but it most likely is on obscure websites . But i advise not going on them cause of viruses. I have been wrong ,sorry😑😶🌫️
"The Revolution" was organized from outsides and I will explain why I am writing this ... The population discontent was indeed very high and ready to burst but: 1. In 1989 December - Defence military units saw on The Romanian radars saw full of fake flying targets on the sky ... 2. Ion Iliescu - first president of Romania after 1989 - studied in Moscow and there are suspicions of being pointed by Moscow as the next Romanian leader since 1980 3. Petre Roman - prime minister of Romania after 1989 ... was not anti comunist at all ... but the son of a very comunist family Valter Roman (Ernő Neuländer) and Hortensia Vallejo (Spanish communist) ... he was the first artizan of starting the demolition of heavy industry in Romania ... including a fresh new factory for continuous welded rail as it is the fashion now in all the Europe ... the machinery were sent to scrap with the foil of protection during the transport still not removed ... imagine that we are not talking about an outdated technology but about the new trend in the industry 4. The change of Ceausescu was starting to shake and to change the direction from Moscow oriented to something with Democratic values .. and this was the moment when ion Iliescu, Silviu Brucan and generalul Nicolae Militaru asked for Soviet army intervention ... and the Russian army was ready to enter and asked for permission to enter in Romania since help was requested from Romania ... general Gusa did not approved the entrance and here we are now ... but it could be other way 5. After the communism fall all the ex-comunist elites become active in acquiring the industrial assets and wealth ... as in Russia and many other ex-comunist countries 6. Now because of the conversion of comunist elites in the new tycoons of capitalism ... "democracy" failed - democracy did not failed, Romania failed in making the transition... and even today we are not sure about the final outcome ... to come 7. FDP, "Frontul Democraţiei Populare" was the Comunist party camouflaged name in 1948 vs FSN, "Frontul Salvarii Nationale" in 1989 ... a little bit of history combined with lack of imagination of the communists ... and here we are ... 8. FSN started to split and rename in many smaller parties that managed to acquire until today almost all the political life ... wow .. this is a truly working democracy ... is not it? ... almost any choice you can make today is just another branch of good old FSN ... it looks like the TV series "La piovra" ...
At 13:09 people didn't start to boo. Those were actually the screams of women who's shifts at a nearby factory have ended. Securitatea, while watching over the crowd from the dictator's speech, threw what's basically a flashbang at them for no apparent reason and the women started running away scared, wich made more people in the nearby square scared. That's what triggered the mass screaming and later boo-ing.
Nu prea este stabilâ , din cauza liderilor actuali..Noi Români încercâm , depinde de Serbia...PS. De ce nici un tren Belgrad -Timișoara nu circulâ , s-au linii de autocare? .De ce ”Poliția Sârbâ ” cautâ sâ amendeze pe toți cei ce intrâ mașini propri la voi în Țarâ?..De ce se teme Serbia de România?...Aici caut un râspuns.? Poate sântenți prea dependenți de energie ”RUSEASC”!?🤔
@@raduvalentinrosca3996 Ce treaba are energia rusească cu România? Da, este cea mai ieftină energie din Europa pentru cei care nu-şi produc singuri energia. Ce-i cu asta?
My dad was in the crowd in Bucharest. He survived and his stories are just crazy to me. I could not imagine going through that. What it's not mentioned in this video is how some of the protesters were locked up in those prison camps where they were tortured for defying the system. This was a punishment even before the protests, the neighbours were encouraged to turn you in if they suspected you're against the system and you'd be locked up in those camps. Ceausescu was inspired by the north koreea's system and that's what he was trying to achieve.
Then came Ion Iliescu,another communist fossil,who is responsible for what we call mineriade basicly he asked miners to beat down protesters against his regime !
This is a great channel, and you really cut through Eastern European bullshit. Ceaucescu's great plans to modernize the country and "rationalize" where thousands of villages existed which happened to be Hungarians amounted to a forced displacement to assimilate them.
Thousands of hungarian villages in Romania? Do you realize how stupid you sound? The only place where thousands of hungarian villages could exist is Mongolia
5:28 You know that before the Romanisation of Transylvania during communism (last 44 years), there was a 1000 years of forced Magyarization, right? A lot of Romanians in Transylvania were forced to become Roman Catholics and their Romanian names were changed to Hungarian names. If you wanted to study, the schools were only in Hungarian or German. There were also the obvious atrocities like Maria Theresa and her son Joseph II ordering general Adolf Nikolaus von Buccow to destroy Transylvanian orthodox churches and monasteries, the center of Romanian culture, language and education. Some of the monasteries attacked with CANNONS were: Recea, Comana, Berivoi, Sâmbăta de Sus and 33 others.
You think we did romanization only during communist times? There was an active effort during the time of the Kingdom as well. Both our peoples were shitheads, as most peoples tend to be.
Hello! This was certainly a great great video, but I think it’s of an extraordinary importance to clarify that when ceausescu was holding his speech, people didn’t start booing, they were screaming because of a loud sound, kind of like a shot, that was heard from somewhere. Most likely this was the start of the coup d’etat to take down ceausescu as a mass maneveur to scare the crowd and incite the already growing sentiments of rebellion and frustration. The camera faced up as it was common instruction for the cameras to face the sky if any detterance happened on national television and the crowd came in big numbers near the entrance of the building. Then, from what i remember there were some chants srarting to say “jos ceausescu” down with ceasescu. From then on, everything was already done and decided for :)
About the building where was executed , I am from Targoviste , the old military garrison was split in 2 zone : the main building , where Ceausescu was executed , which now is a museum of communism , and the rest of the old barracks , which now is the main base of romanian gendermerie in the region of Dambovita .
My mom lived in that time he was born in 1976 and he said that his life wasnt bad because his dad was a miner and Ceausescu loved miners and the salary of my grandfather was good and they have food from trees pigs,cows, and he said when Ceausescu died she said she was so scared bcs he didnt know what will happen next but today we live in Portugal and our life is good bye
My grandma told me a story about the food they were reciving (the food was a problem especialy for those living in cities, as they were totally dependent on gouvernment rationed food). She told me about a relative who drove trucks ( with chickens ) to moscow. To a zoo, to be specific. And while unloading the cargo they saw how big the chickens were, while they back home were getting chicken the size of a fist, mostly bones. She told me that story with hatred in her gut… And now we have to live with the same architype of leaders, thieves who only care about themselves
I'm from Timisoara and i love this video and tökés lászló who (was the first anti cominist) he was HUNGARIAN!!! and the hungarians helped the anti cominst romanians in this war!
Természetes hogy segítettünk nekik, hisz közös érdekünk volt. Főleg azok után ahogy ceausescu brutálisan elnyomta a magyarokat, és erősen hungarofób politikát alkalmazott. Ha valamiben a magyarok és a románok is meg tudnak egyezni az az, hogy utáljuk a kommunizmust és ceausescut
@@ruairicostin9442 for example there was the village destruction. Hungarians were deported from their (mostly huge Hungarian majority) villages, into bigger cities with Romanian majority population. Ofc the goal of this was to make Hungarians to mix with Romanians, therefore their children will most likely lose their Hungarian identity, and it would have also changed the concentration of the Hungarian population in Transylvania. The deportation in itself would have been extreme enough, but ceausescu didn't stop here. Since after the deportations, a lot of Hungarians just went back to their old villages, the Romanians completely destroyed the Hungarian villages, so they can't go back. They often destroyed it by bulldozers, but sometimes they even flooded them, if they were in valleys. (btw László Tőkés was also speaking up against this, that was also the reason why they wanted to arrest him) Another thing was, that Hungarians in Transylvania were not allowed to listen to the Hungarian radio broadcast from Hungary, which was achievable even from Romania. If they were caught, they were locked up in prison. And these were just some of ceausescu's insane anti-Hungarian chauvinistic policies. After all of this, you can definately understand why killing ceausescu was also a Hungarian interest.
But I also feel sorry for those Romanians who gave their lives that day so that their loved ones could have a better future. And almost nobody knows about their sacrifice. That's sad! We should have a remembrance day commemorating these heroes of Romania. Come on, World governments. Give it to us!
The only hero is Ceausescu, they are victims of CIA & foreign. IS. They planned to be a civil war to occupy Romania and to take Transylvania . Around 300 soldiers army died, they shouted each other due to some diversion made by CIA. After 35 years, the revolution trail was not finalised,
every time I hear the story of this revolution I shed a tear. its so beautiful seeing the crowd of that many people all coming toghether for the sake of this country. so sad the corruption continued, otherwise romania would've been up there with the western giants, thanks to geographical locations
Not so fun fact: The Judges that we're at the trial of Ceaușescu we're supposed to be boarding a helicopter which was supposed to crash at the request of Iliescu. Luckily they refused and went by car instead. Iliescu wanted to blame the Securitatea for the crash.
it is deeply concerning just how well you managed to pronounce the romanian names. also it would be cool if you'd make a sequel at some point talking about the clusterfuck that happened after the fall of communism with the rise of iliescu, the mineriads etc
Its important to know that Iliescu was also a communist but he was fired by Ceaușescu after he disagreed with the dicator. And Iliescu didnt wanted to change anything at first, as he believed the people only rioted against Ceaușescu abd not communism in general. But this was not the majority opinion among many romanians and so they continued to protest even after this. Eventually Iliescu badically said "Alright, fine. You guys win. We are gonna make new presidential elections and we will outlaw communism". And later in 1990, he run for the office of president and won . And would remain the leader for most of the 90s when the country continued to suffer poverty, emigration and still hadnt pay its forementioned debt while Ion and his cronies enriched themselves (Democracy manifest indeed). Nowadays, Romania is doing fine-ish.We are now arguably better than during communist years. And considering we havent slided towards a dictatorship or faced ethnic conflict like most of our neighbours is quite an achievement. Anyway thank you for making this video, Nick. Keep doing these wonderful videos.
My grandparents left Romania long before Ceaucescu. I they were ethnic Germans (though their immigration papers from the 1920s report them as Hungarian speaks so perhaps their parents were multilingual. We don't quite know) In any event, because of this family history, i grew up watching events in Romania in the 1980s with a lot of interest. It was the Cold War. A primary school teacher was very clear how bad Ceaucescu was, but it took a few years until I could learn the full picture. I can't tell you how much time i spent watching the news footage coming from Romans when Romanians began to show their discontent with him. It's been good to see Romania become such a better place than it once was. I know there are still problems and the economy needs a bit more boosting, but i would consider Romania a great model for what other Eastern European nations not yet part of the EU could become.
I was three years old at the time of the Revolution, but I still remember queuing with my parents for basic necessities and buying milk and butter with vouchers. Unfortunately for the country, the 90s were marred by horrible inflation and a seemingly neverending recession until the early 2000s. Boy am I glad I was a kid without a worry in the world during that time. My parents to this day almost never speak of their hardships during the 90s.
There is some wrong information in this video dude, you are mixing up (1960s and 1970s) with 1980s which should be regarded as two different eras : -the situation for the average Romanian was less than ideal only after 1981 when Ceausescu decided to repay the debt and the rationalization started, before that it was a very good life, the 70s were the best ages in the history of Romania for the average folk. -the germans were not forcibly deported. The ones that had families in West Germany were able to emigrate there if the german state paid for their education in Romania. In fact, most of the germans left Romania AFTER THE FALL of Ceausescu when the borders opened up. -the aim of moving the population from the countryside to the city was not to sway the demographics. It was called systematization and its aim was to free more land for agriculture and reduce public spending by destroying the many villages Romania had and concentrating the population in apartment blocks in cities. Many villages meant more money for transportation, underpopulated schools, and hospitals, etc. For example, this is the reason Germany doesn't allow the existence of towns that have under 10,000 people. In Romania , most towns have around 200. -electrification of Romania was made by Causescu , before him the overwhelming majority of people had gas lamps, so the situation of electricity was not perfect but was improving, he wanted to develop more nuclear power plants. - and the BIG ONE : the Romanian revolution was nothing but a coup. It was the result of the fight between Stalinist communists and reformists. The same struggle that destroyed the soviet union.
@thegarfield2414 Iliescu was in Power before the election aswell. And the reasons for his election was that he was the figurehead of the "revolution" and he was the ruler after Ceausescu was ousted from power. He was pretty much anonymous before , he was in charge of some publishing house for scientific books or something like that. It would have been impossible for a nobody like Iliescu to gain so much power if he did not receive "special help". So trust me it was Soviet a backed coup, not a true revolution.
My grandfather was an revolutionist, he stood on the balcony where the people cut out the coat of arms, the place that it happened is now named Centru (center)
You have sense of humour,respect from Southern Romania,many Hungarian people have bought homes on the Danube's Gorge because of the scenery and many Romanians now own homes in Hungary!
I learned one thing, Romanians don’t easily hit that boiling point, but woe to whatever poor sod that does. The Revolution itself was shockingly violent, given the nature of Romanians. So yeah. A very good case study
I have to give you credit for pronouncing EVERY single name perfectly 10/10 you don't know how rare that is. I guess it takes another Balkan to pronounce the name of the other, you even avoided pronouncing the "i" in Pitești. Nicely done! I enjoy your channel and your jokes and am thankful that you make videos about my country
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Ok Balkan gigachad
Aslo thanks for the romanian video
Im romanian too
gypsy revolution 100000%%!!!!!1111???
Nájsz videó báttya💪
Romanian trials:
>No we don't have evidence
>Lawyers switch sides mid trial
>Guilty anyways
True Sigma lawyer when losing just switch side.
Well, romanians switching sides isn't surprising at all
@@bazsamester mad ungur spotted
@@bazsamester A little bit of Western European policies is all we've applied.
You wouldn't blame us for copying such great moves?
@@catalinbostan3542 western Europeans don't tipically switch sides randomly (except for Italians)
My Romanian roommate had a poster that roughly translated said “Steal the wheels of the Communist Party” also he somehow had a nose wheel from a Mig-15. He really owned the stereotype.
If it isn't bolted down romanians will steal it and if it is bolted romanians will steal bolts first .
Truly sigma people
@@Snp2024 Royal Marines are just island Romanians apparently.
@@MorningGI0ry what's? Can you tell me more i am interested
@@Snp2024 theres a saying about Royal Marines that is pretty much the same quote you posted lol.
My grandfather was sent to silence the protesters in TImisoara. They were given crossbars but when they arrived the protestatars gave them meat (a luxury back then) so they defected
We say "protesters" in English. In French they say "protestataires".
My Grandparents were part of the people that were waiting in the train station with hot tea and bread for when the trains full of Miners, Farmers, Workers, and other people who were given bats and metal bars put on a train, told that the Hungarians have Invaded and that Hungarians have taken over Timisoara and sent to there to beat the shit out of them. When those people did not see any fighting but people waiting for them on a cold December morning with hot tea or coffee and warm bread they switched sides and joined the people.
@@Dracopol who asked
My father was sent to defend a rafinery near Pitesti during the revolution. He and his friends got bored and started to shoot a light bulb outside, whitch scared some other soldiers that started to shoot around them in panic.
@@rotasnet 💀
As a Romanian, I salute you for doing so many great videos about my country! Love from Romania :D
salut si eu sunt roman
Best day ever finally found Romanians in comment's
Romania's first Russian attack. of course there is a reply
RO here!
La multi ani! ❤💛💙
@@alexrobert2024 Si tie frate!!!
Communism in Romania: *ends*
Romanians: We're free!
Iliescu and his party: I wouldn't say free, more like under new management.
As always, great video.
Are you familiar with the mineriade? Basicly Iliescu asking miners to beat down protesters!
@@vladodobleja748 ești prăjit bro
And it is worse and deadlier
@@ferdinand8994 Bai Ferdinand curcubeu,nu-ti vezi de treaba?
@@rebellefleur2993 Nothing is worse than communism
Eastern Europe in 1989: *peacefully revolts against their Communist government"
Romania, also in 1989: "There is another way."
"De ce să facem simplu dacă se poate face şi complicat?"
Romania is part *BASEDkan* so it was obvious that out of all the *BESTern Europeans* the Romanians would pull a "Pro Gamer Move"
didn't have much of a choice, it's basically what would happen if north korea had a revolution, same cult of personality, same dictatorial grip on power.
Russians sold their influence in most of Eastern Europe for access to western markets. Everything else are details.
@@ihavenoidea2736 lmao
My statics professor is Romanian and he mentioned the revolution offhand one day. I thought it was crazy that I knew a person who had been through something like this
Know the feeling lol
My Chinese teacher was a former journalist for a local newspaper... in Beijing, China... on June 4th, 1989
He definitely saw some stuff
@@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500 No he was nothing, because nothing happend.
My dad appears front and center in a lot of photos from the1989 revolution in Bucharest, proud to be his son, he did that for the well being of his family.
Wageningen?
I know a lot of people who participated in the Romanian revolution. What I don't know with certainty is on which side they really were ... or on what day of December they switched sides. There is so much desinformation and lies around, that it almost impossible to find out the real truth.
Okay, let's watch this quickly before it gets age restricted
For real
Igen főnök
@@dougdougsnacks jaja. Jártam már így korábban János csatornáján...
Real
@@bazsamester Ha gépen vagy, akkor létezik egy "Simple RUclips Age Restriction Bypass" nevű Tampermonkey script, amivel az már nem lesz gond
Fun fact,the romanian rationing system didn't just ration food,it rationed electricity,as people only got 2 hours of electricity per day,and water,as people would get running water on certain days
Romania like all the countries are only slaves for those who really rule the planet!! The big fight like u see wit ur own eyes IS Between USA And RUSSIA!! every single word against what i'm sayin' here is equal to zero! May God bless all of us to stop this sick and criminal war maded bi ILLUMINATTI!! Wake the f.. up PEOPLE!!! God save us all! 🙏🙏🙏🇱🇷🤝🇷🇺
@Âroma That's complete nonsense. During the worst years (1984-1989) electricity was rationed only in the winter, and even then for one hour in the evening, in some days of the week. The savings were effective because many households used electricity for heating in the winter. Now obviously, this policy was idiotic - whatever was saved in the 80s was spent in the 90s for no additional benefit.
@@danoprea3066 Eu însumi n-am trăit prin regimul comunist,doar am zis ceea prin ce au trecut bunicii și părinții mei,după spusele lor,aveau doar 2 ore de curent electric în timpul zilei
pai hai sa vorbim din auzite atunci :))
ratiile, desi o decizie proasta, aveau un scop concret care ajuta tara - platirea datoriilor la FMI ca sa nu fim prinsi in debt trap cum pateste acum Sri Lanka de exemplu din partea FMI-ului si World Bank
As a Timisorean I'm deeply touched by the amount of work you put into this. It goes without saying that I'm extremely proud of my city and what its people managed to do and I hope that we continue to carry this legacy.
Fun fact: if a woman was above a certain weight, her food ration would have been smaller. Butter was a luxury, meat also. I had 3 aunts, a teacher, a nurse, and one working at a meat factory.
The one working at the meat factory was fabulously wealthy for that time, with fur coats, a car and, hold your horses, a JVC video player. While she had bags of money(Literally, bags of money) the other two couldn't afford clothes.
it's spelled Je Ve Ce and is much better than the Panasoanic apparently
Yeah, good old "descurcareala".
@@bestopinion9257 but remember, ‘communism was good’
Damn, that's dark. I never knew why my grandmother eats so much butter and meat. I knew about foreign fruits, like bananas and oranges, but I thought a country with many farmers and shepherds would have no issues with those foods.
@@limpchees No farms in communism, just one big farm called CAP or colectiv. THat means farms were all made and controlled by state. And food was exported, that's why the shortage.
Well, the Romanians helped topple the communist regime of Hungary in 1919 and a Hungarian helped spark the Romanian revolution. I'd say we're even.
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@@content1006 Think you got the wrong tricolor there, buddy lol
@@alinalexandru2466 Chad🤝Hungary thats what i was trying to say anyway
Sorry my friend, but what are you talking about. That was an all-out war between Romania and Hungary in 1919 and Romania occupied a large part of Hungary.
@@adam-np And outsted the communist dictator Bela Kun. Why do you think the Romanian army went as far as Budapest?
Considering how last Romanian dictator ended up makes me smile. I like how these communist always start with " Fight against elites" but than becomes next elites "but we're different" lol.
Yep
Bolsheviks are a wicked breed, but not every communist is on their side
@@Snp2024 Most communists are not totalitarian. Bolshevik tendencies make up only one out of three of the major tendencies of the communist movement, the other two being Orthodox Marxism, which advocates for a rule-of-law type of organization based on working class councils, and Anarchism, which advocates for a social structure based exclusively on the will of those participating in it to participate in it.
The reason why the experience with "communism" has been so traumatic in the past is that, after 1917, Bolsheviks monopolized the whole of the movement and favored their goons getting in charge of socialist countries instead of letting the working class decide for itself, which is what Orthodox Marxists and Anarchists advocated for.
You can't force people to accept a political structure, no matter what that is; otherwise, authoritarianism, be it direct or indirect, arises.
@@SvobodaIliSmert bullshit
@@commissarlugh1040 Explain your reasons and I will gladly listen to them
My parents who you could say got the better end of communism, mom being part of the younger side of the Party and dad being in the military, say it wasn't that bad.... yet my fridge is ALWAYS full of stuff we don't eat. "Why not have x in case you want to eat it?" After years and years they still struggle to understand the "we buy it when we need it" idea. That's how bad the childhood was. Even when as young adults they were theoretically in the higher society, you can still see the effects of such a bad childhood.
Lmao my parents both do the same thing but they both look back at communism as a positive thing. I'm mixed on what to think about it
My grandmother lives in Czechia and keeps a freezer totally stuffed with meat and cheese because when there was meat available during communism they would buy as much as possible and freeze it. She also has a cabinet full of tissues, napkins and toilet paper because those products were in short supply sometimes as well. She has a lot of money saved up and lives off a good pension but still does whatever she can to save money. Even though her, my grandfather, mother and uncle lived relatively well compared to other Czechs at that time she can't let go of her old habits learned through hardship.
it wasn't communism tho looool you dickheads always love talking about "how hard life is under communism" when it's just state capitalism. dumb yutes wallahi
Omg, my dad always stuffs the fridge and freezer with meat, my freezer right now is packed with frozen meat and cheese, "just in case".
wait, my dad does the same thing with stuffing the fridge and the big freezer ”just in case” I thought that was normal...
Romanians sure know how to celebrate Christmas. Some places put up a tree, Romanians reach for a Kalashnikov.
Actually most Romanians are ashamed of what was done on the holy day of Christmas. It could have been done on any other day AFTER Christmas, but the atheist, Marxist-Leninist Bolsheviks who were behind the coup d'état in December 1989, some of them educated and indoctrinated in Moscow universities, some of them just minions of the GRU or the KGB, were not used to celebrate and respect Christmas, Passover/Easter or any other holy and religious moment.
PS: Serbs reach for an AK . Romanians reach for a bardă or a sica (dagger)
And every European Country should take exmple. Including modden day Romania....
We (the balkans) could've been so much... but we are still the drunk uncle at the party of the rich relatives
@@ApoRekt decades/centuries of fighting each other and now the "open minded" western/central Europeans opening the floodgates to hostile migrants hasn't helped.
@@ApoRektas a Romanian-American I agree, especially for Moldova
As a Hungarian, I really like the story of the Romanian revolution.
Also, 10/10 intro song János! 🤣
What's the name of the song
What is the name of the song ???
@@adamkiraly9805 Régi mániám
@@jacky9590 yeah I figured it out
What is the song called?
imagining the feeling of like 100,000 people watching him silently and then one person and then more people booing is almost euphoric rn, almost feels like im getting myself high
Booing leaders happens in western democracies all the time...only the leaders r well protected by their security and not handed over to the crowds..
To me it's crazy how I can literally just go to my parents and ask them what was life during Ceausescu, to then have them reveal bits and pieces of information that wasn't told me when I was younger, like how my mom's family was spied by the Securitate and she learned that when her neighbor admitted of being an informant not too long after the revolution. Almost everything said by Gelu in this video is exactly how my parents would also describe it.
My neighbours were informants too. I still despise these idiots.
my mother hid banned books behind the fridge
My great grandfather was a priest during that time, and he and his family had to flee numerous times. My grandmother once told me that while running, they took shelter at an elderly couple for a few hours, but my great grandpa decided that they had to leave in the middle of the night. The next morning, the secret police invaded the elderly couple’s home and killed them both.
Man love to see the vids also love the fact you seem to read your comments that’s what makes you one of my favourite RUclipsrs
Awwww
@@LivingIronicallyinEurope KOSOSO E SERBIA
@@LivingIronicallyinEurope thank you for responding and proving the point even further that you read your comments, love the vids man keep up the work
@@andreipesystem5290Tehnic Kosovo este o regiune separatistă care va fi cu totul independentă doar când o va recunoaște și Serbia.
as a romanian/hungarian my grandparents had to go though Yugoslavia to be free year later the communism is no more
Through Drobeta Turnu-Severin area,where I live!
never was any communism dickhead
I’m also a Romanian/hungarian
Imagine a whole nation coming together to give itself such an amazing Christmas present.
Beautyful.
And then seeing their country fall into even greater debt ....
Sper că nu ești ironic. Teoretic Împușcatu era ateu, deci Crăciunul pentru el era că orice altă zi. Nimic deosebit.
@@surendramumgai631 It took some time to fix the economy after decades
of such cartoonishly bad management, but at least the terror was over.
We need full series " How country defeated communism" Love your videos
no country has ever defeated communism. no country has ever achieved communism lol
Tbh romania's revolution was the only violent one where blood was shed.
@@gNk1nG Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, & Ethiopia: 🗿
Can we get a capitalism one too? We defeated imperialism at least here in Ireland. Could've came before we lost half our population to British capitalist policies, but oh well
@tempejkl First off, Ireland is still capitalist, and second, Imperial Britain practiced mercantilism. As an American, I have a dislike toward the colonial Brits, but what they did to their colonies was not in the name of capitalism.
Besides Timisoara and Bucharest, there was an attempt to start a protest in Iasi too. It was to take place on the 14th in a Thursday, thinking that more people would join compared to if it were held during the weekend. The plotters, a group of engineers, had plans for wider protests against the regime throughout the country. They went as far as to print leaflets, calling the people to join in.
It seemed to go smoothly until, just as they were about to start the protest, they were met by the Securitate agents.
Two days later, without knowing at all about the events in Iasi, protests would errupt in Timisoara, sparking the official beginning of the Revolution.
Also, fun fact: The Securitate was extremely paranoid about the revolt spreading to Bucharest and reasoned that the train was the most likely means of transportation for protesters to take. And they were right: a day before they enforced martial law, a group of three students boarded a train that was heading to Bucharest, to spread the word. They were the first to let the Bucharestians know about the revolt in Timisoara, which inspired them to start their own :)
I was in Romania for a few months at the MK airbase on NATO orders. It's a nice Country, what I found interesting is that around the Airbase there's old abandoned trucks and fighters alot with engines just rusting away at some parts of the base.
Yeah some times they steal gas from military vehicles, but there all right. :=)))
@@LiviuHomalăulSectar At this point it's a common to hear about that on the news.
As you can see in the current Russian-Ukrainian war, rusting in place is a specialty in Eastern Europe.
Anyway, I hope you had some leave time to go visit other parts of Romania, which are a lot more interesting. If not, you are welcome to come visit.
All the best and thank you for your service.
Although Greece is never associated with Eastern Europe, my cousin living there who is still undergoing military training said that the guns they were given were so rusty that they couldn't even fire them. Not to mention, the amount of junk food places near the base made him gain a few kgs too. His unit will be done training in the next week or so.
And now we get back to this.
:))) Tovarase Calin
Great Respect for the Romanians from Hungary. What I do find sad tho that even though the message was far more clear than a calm system change, only one head of the hydra was cut, and the rest of the leadership remained.
Yup. One could say that the other heads severed the rotten one 😁
Some of you had blood on the hands, you with CIA,, were involved in 1989. Ceausescu is a martyr.
You should've also mentioned Ion Illiescu sending miners to attack protesters after the revolution. The protesters called themselves the "golani".
Noooo, that would be against the narrative.
and somehow nobody askes in these comments how come smiley face is not in jail yet
Some astute people realized that old commie remained in power and tried to continue the revolution. Unfortunately most people were not astute, like those miners, and sided with Iliescu.
@@SilverBullet93GTwhat narrative? Im comfused
@@SilverBullet93GT Smiley face?
This video is not just fantastically well made, informative, funny & detailed on its own merits but also it works beautifully as a companion piece to the recent BaldAndBankrupt video from Romania. Thank you Gospodine!
BaldAndBankrupt is fake. His presentation skills lack pretty bad and he is also really smug and that's cringe.
look up BaldAndBaldrDossier
he is a rapist
People of Romania can really be proud of this story, being brave and standing up for themselves. "Régi mániám" is still a catchy tune, but it's not the same without Ceaușescu.
Wow!
Your romanian pronunciation improved so much. I remember your video "I visited Romania so you don't have to" I remember you struggled to pronounce the names of cities. Now you pronounce them better. Also good job for making your homework!
The army joined the protesters.
Everything was given in rations: electricity, food, water, meat in cans, there was one bread or two per family per day. I do not remember which is true from the tales my grandparents told me.
There was a mass grave discovered in the days of the revolution.
The head of the secret Police 'ufffed' himself for failing to defend communism.
Securitate was shooting the people. They came dressed as army men, in order to create chaos and discourage the people from revolting.
But i know you put in the video more easy to take facts, as RUclips is a kindergarten, mentions of violent acts will be seen as offensive and your video might be taken down for graphic content and hate speech.
I hate this kindergarten and offenfed culture!
The mass grave wasn't related to the revolution, it happened a few months prior because of an accident(I don't exactly remember what it was, but you can search it up) and the head revolutionaries said those people where protesters from Timisoara massacred to make the people even more angry and create even more chaos.
Interesting to see how under Ceausescu's rule Romania's development declined due to forced relocation, exhausted export policy and low living standards just to keep the promised production quota, whereas Kádár on the other placed great emphasis on the social life (not that he had any choice, since he didn't want to share the same fate as Rákosi).
But from the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter, because both of them crippled the country by asking for loans.
Romanias debt had been paid in the Ceausescu era, this is why some elders are still so fond of him.
@@gittingerandris7154 nationalism takes precedence over logic for them
@@gittingerandris7154 nah, that was propaganda, those depths were made by the communists as well, not by somebody else😅
@@gittingerandris7154 Ceau loaned a shitton of money, which he paid back by people's blood.
@@denisflorian2431 but he paid back, that was what I wanted to say, in comparison to Kádár János
My grandpa died on 25 december 1989 , right 50 meters from the church, he Was shoot by communists from the church roof.
Sorry for your loss and thank you to your grandfather.
Sorry for your loss
@@nydydn He did not do anything, he was walking on the street. CIA was involved.
@@elenabibescu1848 It was the Romanian Securitate loyal to the dictator. By being outside those days the Ceausescu regime was ended. People in Timisoara and Bucuresti also did nothing, but be on the streets, but that meant everything, and only thanks to them me and you can enjoy the freedom to write whatever on a website such as RUclips. People in North Korea, Ceausescu's model country, still don't have this luxury.
@@nydydn Securitate betrayed Ceausescu since 88. If they acted, acted in the favour of CIA,& others, because they wanted to assassinate Ceausescu. Do you know how was Romanian if the western countries did not destroy Romania? i prefer to live in peace, nit in this false democracy. We are here because CIA & UK,,, kill ad killed million of innocent people. .
My father was involved in the rebbelion, as a photographer.He can tell about this , and his story(for hours❤)
I'm a Székely myself, I respect the history of this country.
I'm neither Romanian, nor do I have that many Romanian friends that I could know about any of this but holy shit dude. After this video? My respect for Romania has just skyrocketed.
"I have no idea of the situation, but let me give my complete opinion on it completely disregarding the experiences of those who lived there and the knowledge of those who have looked into it intensively"
If you aren't British or American, i'd be suprised
@@socire72 They weren't disregarding anyone's opinion and you know this.
@@concept5631 Considering I’ve talked to Romanians who praised the communist times ( some of them ) and ive also talked to those who loathe the current system ( almost all of them ), I’d say they are disregarding some experiences
@@socire72not true at all i can assure you we hate everything about communism here in Romania. People that enjoyed it usually had some connections to the Securitate
I'm romanian and I gotta say this video explained it perfectly, its nice seeing someone foreign know so much about the country!
I'm very relieved I didn't have to live in days like that, my grandpa and even my mom told me how hard it was during that time, Ceaușescu deserved his fate. Keep informing people! 👌
60 la sută dintre români vor comunismul inapoi ,in rest mănânci cacat ptr mine abolirea comunismului a fost o greșeală
@@thotslayer9914 Romania was already very anti russian and the conflict in Ukraine just boosted that to no limits. The day the war started I went to class and the only thing everyone talked about, including the professors, was if the conflict was going to reach Romania. A big part of Russia's aggression revolves around The Black Sea, which is mostly controlled by Romania and Turkey together, although Romania has the more influence and control in the parts where Russia wants it. There have already been multiple Romanian cargo ships attacked by "accident" by Russia since the beginning of the war, and thousands since Putin took power. There's also the topic of our brothers and sisters up in the republic of Moldova. Despite it being a different state, the Republic of Moldova is half of what is the actual territory of Moldova which is shared between Romania and The Republic of Moldova and people from the region consider themselves Moldovian regardless of which side of the border they are on, I'm Moldovian myself. Although the Republic hasn't joined back up with the Country due to reforms getting shafted by the Russians (of course), Romania has made it clear that they consider the Republic extremely close and almost is territory and if the conflict in Ukraine bleeds out into the Republic, its very likely Romania will get involved regardless of Nato plans.
@@elsienova4269 I'm late but that's true, most romanians consider moldovans beyond the Prut river (for people that dont know, the Prut river is the border between Romania and Moldova) part of the country. There's basically no border and a large amount of romanians want Moldova to unite with us.
Russia and even the Soviet Union are seen as aggressor countries and that we only wanted to defend our rightful lands from.
I for one agree with that statement, the suppression of moldovans in the Soviet Union was very infuriating to learn about.
@Andy Ash No, it was totally not the "golden age"
If you were to ask me really, statistically speaking our golden age would be now, Romania is far better off now than at any point in its history.
Politically, however, I'd say our golden age would be the interwar period (Belle Epoque)
Either way, our communist period was definitely not our golden age, Ceaușescu built the Bucharest metro very poorly, paid loans off of peoples' plates, they were starving while he was sitting in his luxurious house.
As one romanian literary writer, Fănuș Neagu, put it
"Communism did one thing right.. made us equal, in poverty."
Ceaușescu was nothing but a dictator profiting off of the people, he did industrialise but that was the only thing he did fairly decently, and that would have happened without him in charge anyway.
@@Aerumoraand what is romania's debt today ? Would u called a country where people r forced to emigrate for a better life living in its golden period ?
As a Romanian, thank you alot for doing this episode!
Yes!!! What a great day it is to see you posted another video! I can barely contain my joy! Great video as always János! You are so dedicated to your subscribers to take your time to read each comment and to produce such top quality content, thank you.
YES!!! i have been waiting for this thank you for making 👌👌🇹🇩❤🇷🇸
You forgot about Ceaucescu's crazy palaces - I think he had 70 of them all over the country. The most infamous one was the "Palace of the People" - of course, for him and his family only - and it was so big he could not even HEAT it!
"Palace of the people" god I hate how dictators will name everything this way even their countries
He did not lived there but the legend says he wanted to move there with his elite. Now the parliament is there, in a small area of course, the rest is empty. And what you see, that huge building is just the foundation, it is not finished and most likely it will never be.
It is very large and made of very heavy materials like marble, so it actually sinks a bit into the ground every year. I've been there on a school trip, but I couldn't enjoy that trip considering I lived in a commie block surviving with my grandma and her small pension. Impressive architecture but at what cost.
Rip Uranus
@@limpchees A cost too high
The first couple of years of Ceausescu's leadership were actually pretty nice. He could have been a real leader and maybe he could get away from Russian influence, but his holiday in North Korea in 1971 made him go a bit insane. He saw how North Korea dictator was seen almost like a God by his people. Ceausescu came back with a God complex and with wrong ideas. Without that holiday he could have been a good leader. Or not. Who knows?
At first he was seen as a liberal, how ironic.
Yeah, it is pretty nice when you get things for free. But later you have to pay back - and this was not nice.
Yes, that trip caused him to get a little more personal and to develop his own cult of personality
North Korea is a shit hole
He had already banned abortion and birth control in 1966.
My grandfather told me that when it was the time of communism, the peasants lived better than those from the city because the peasants had gardens and animals but the townspeople did not.
bingo. you are on the right track.
Unfortunately some people in Switzerland are attempting to show us how to eat ze bugz, own nothing, and somehow be happy.
Oh and big Bill is now a farmer.
City people had relatives in country. They left the country for city. So they took products from their relatives. But nobody had enough except "nomenclatura" aka some sort of communist elite. I lived my first 10 years in country side under commie and I can tell you my parents provided enough to not be hungry but the desire for some rare foods and sweets was always present. Imagine you only have oranges in the night of new year and banana maybe never.
In general protein sources were scarce and you had to be creative to make something nourishing with what you have. Irony, that was more healthy than today abuse with junk food.
We are not there yet in Western Europe but this starts to sound way too close to current reality 😂
Welp, it's still gonna be fine until the social state is completely out of money.
@@SilverBullet93GTOh? That's funny, because that's capitalism.
You cannot own your home in most capitalist countries anymore. Most have to tone down the amount of food eaten to less than recommended. You can't even own a movie, you have to rent it.
Those ideas were propagated by the WEF... which is a distinctly capitalist organisation. I'm shocked the amount of times someone will bring up capitalism and use it as a criticism for socialism.
@@LibertyDinothat's literally capitalism. Communism doesn't have social states. You own your labour instead of having your labour value extracted by a lazy businessman. The only people who would get support are those who simply cannot work.
The fostercare in communist Romania is the most underated topic in todays Romania.
Many children lost their lives or lived with permanent psychic or psychic sequelae, they were exploited in the fields, put to work like slaves, and whipped if they stopped.
Others were selled or they're organs harvested.
After they survive 18 years in that imprisonment, will be throw out in the streets to beg and die in the cold, the lucky few, find an compound to work, in which they will have a room to sleep, without heat or warm water.
At 20 they will do their service in the army... in which many would cannot work and just put on reserved, cause in those years you needed to have a connection, so back to the streets you go.
Alone, hated and despised, having no one, many gave up, killed themselves or waited to die like dogs in the streets.
That government and their successors killed my sister, murder my parents childhood's, destroyed their families, those people are still in charge of that country, laughing, eating and fucking, they're monsters, and what is sad, that in all countries there are still the same wolfs in sheep cloths, I hope time will exterminate them and their families, cause to much blood was spilled, and so little answered.
Have a nice life friends, the future is bright in some way.
6:51 Fun fact: the Romanian translation in this clip is literally:
"I should have stayed at home today."
"Are you afraid?"
I get so stoked when I see you upload! You walk the line of informative and funny very well, not to mention the quality of the content is amazing
It was interesting and informative. I'm always happy when you upload a video. Csak így tovább, ne hagyd abba.
The Romanian Revolution was the og battle royale
As a Hungarian, I thank you for opening my eyes about romanian people. They are far braver and stronger than I tought (Still not as stronk as seebians tho)
If we aren’t stronger than the Serbians, why don’t you have Transylvania?
No, we are stronger than everybody but only when we unite during war time. But during peace we only argue and insult each other.
Maybe romanians are strong, but Hungarians are the bravest people of all time. They are so brave, that they are trusting romania and Italy as allies for the 3rd time, even though they both betrayed them already twice.
@@bazsamester it's called tactical team switching. If you've got more to gain by switching teams, why not do it? Be smart bro, look what loyalty did to Hungary.
@@radicalcentrist4990 If we go down, we go down with fighting and with honor
Romania is the most Underrated "big" European nation 🇷🇴❤️
No hate to Romania or Romanians, but why? Romania is one of the poorest European countries, it has no industry, it isn't a politic power, it isn't such big
@@Neukend they have a really good history, their people are very nice and the countryside is lovely
@@Neukend it really started improving in this few couple of years.
PS: I don't know from what country you are, but Romania and it's people had a very big role in the history of the region, if not the continent or world, and I think you should search up more about it before starting saying shi on the internet, cus maybe you even wouldn't have been born and spoke right now if Romania didn't do what it did so much in the past!
@@Neukend what? It's literally one of the richest European nations, with the 6th largest economy in Europe, and also one of the largest industries in the developed world in terms of rate, also don't know what you mean by political power, this isn't hoi4. It's bigger than all the nations around it except Ukraine.
@@tortellinifettuccine yeah, largest economy, but it's GDP rank in Europe is 32 out of 45.
About the industry, surely Romania has one, it produces cars and as i understood even planes. The problem is that the companies in fact are foreign. At example Romania has a company called dacia which produces cars. But, it is a brench of renault. So France owns 100% of that company. And the same with all other companies.
By political power I meant it's independence. As Romania is a part of EU and NATO it is limited by it's political decisions. It is just a puppet as it was under the soviet leadership.
Some people are saying that Romania has great history people and landscapes. We surely weren't talking about it's touristic abilitys.
Oh man, Romania was even more brutal than I thought. We had rationing in USSR as well, level of poverty in Romania was so much worse :(
In europe only Albania was worst than us in Romania...
@@vasilicavaduva923albania number one as always
Yeah, thanks to commie influence from URSS.
@@vasilicavaduva923 poland was worst .... poland was almost 2 times poorer than Romania in comunist times
that's because all the meat went to CCCP. we were starving while trying to pay our wars debt.
Fun Fact : Even though their deaths weren't televised ,years after their execution, a mixtape was found showing them pleading like bitches before being shot .Uncensored . And it is on youtube. As a romanian i love this video and wish that u could do more of our wonderful nation🇷🇴🇷🇴
Do you got a link to the video
@@ulester3092 ruclips.net/video/PbZYgg3BpmM/видео.html
@@ulester3092 ruclips.net/video/KKyyYbMx6YM/видео.html
@@ulester3092 okay ,i have been wrong ,cause from what i found there is no uncensored version on youtube bc of obvious TOS ,but it most likely is on obscure websites . But i advise not going on them cause of viruses. I have been wrong ,sorry😑😶🌫️
@@dostoievskisergei3431 it’s all good
"The Revolution" was organized from outsides and I will explain why I am writing this ...
The population discontent was indeed very high and ready to burst but:
1. In 1989 December - Defence military units saw on The Romanian radars saw full of fake flying targets on the sky ...
2. Ion Iliescu - first president of Romania after 1989 - studied in Moscow and there are suspicions of being pointed by Moscow as the next Romanian leader since 1980
3. Petre Roman - prime minister of Romania after 1989 ... was not anti comunist at all ... but the son of a very comunist family Valter Roman (Ernő Neuländer) and Hortensia Vallejo (Spanish communist) ... he was the first artizan of starting the demolition of heavy industry in Romania ... including a fresh new factory for continuous welded rail as it is the fashion now in all the Europe ... the machinery were sent to scrap with the foil of protection during the transport still not removed ... imagine that we are not talking about an outdated technology but about the new trend in the industry
4. The change of Ceausescu was starting to shake and to change the direction from Moscow oriented to something with Democratic values .. and this was the moment when ion Iliescu, Silviu Brucan and generalul Nicolae Militaru asked for Soviet army intervention ... and the Russian army was ready to enter and asked for permission to enter in Romania since help was requested from Romania ... general Gusa did not approved the entrance and here we are now ... but it could be other way
5. After the communism fall all the ex-comunist elites become active in acquiring the industrial assets and wealth ... as in Russia and many other ex-comunist countries
6. Now because of the conversion of comunist elites in the new tycoons of capitalism ... "democracy" failed - democracy did not failed, Romania failed in making the transition... and even today we are not sure about the final outcome ... to come
7. FDP, "Frontul Democraţiei Populare" was the Comunist party camouflaged name in 1948 vs FSN, "Frontul Salvarii Nationale" in 1989 ... a little bit of history combined with lack of imagination of the communists ... and here we are ...
8. FSN started to split and rename in many smaller parties that managed to acquire until today almost all the political life ... wow .. this is a truly working democracy ... is not it? ... almost any choice you can make today is just another branch of good old FSN ... it looks like the TV series "La piovra" ...
ding ding ding.
second intelligent comment i found.
hats off Sir!
At 13:09 people didn't start to boo. Those were actually the screams of women who's shifts at a nearby factory have ended. Securitatea, while watching over the crowd from the dictator's speech, threw what's basically a flashbang at them for no apparent reason and the women started running away scared, wich made more people in the nearby square scared. That's what triggered the mass screaming and later boo-ing.
romanian 🤝serbian friendship restored
Nu prea este stabilâ , din cauza liderilor actuali..Noi Români încercâm , depinde de Serbia...PS. De ce nici un tren Belgrad -Timișoara nu circulâ , s-au linii de autocare? .De ce ”Poliția Sârbâ ” cautâ sâ amendeze pe toți cei ce intrâ mașini propri la voi în Țarâ?..De ce se teme Serbia de România?...Aici caut un râspuns.? Poate sântenți prea dependenți de energie ”RUSEASC”!?🤔
@@ivailogeorgiev8725 😅😅😅😂😂😂
@@raduvalentinrosca3996 Ce treaba are energia rusească cu România? Da, este cea mai ieftină energie din Europa pentru cei care nu-şi produc singuri energia. Ce-i cu asta?
Please send our criminals and runaway politicians back! Love, Romania!
Wow, this was surprisingly accurate. Great job, man. 👍
i watched all of this and listened as if i didn't already know and i enjoyed it very much! thank you
My dad was in the crowd in Bucharest. He survived and his stories are just crazy to me. I could not imagine going through that.
What it's not mentioned in this video is how some of the protesters were locked up in those prison camps where they were tortured for defying the system. This was a punishment even before the protests, the neighbours were encouraged to turn you in if they suspected you're against the system and you'd be locked up in those camps.
Ceausescu was inspired by the north koreea's system and that's what he was trying to achieve.
What the last man said was so moving. I'd love to see more interviews with regular people.
At first Chau and her wife were sentenced to life imprisonment but it was just a lie and in reality it was a death sentence as we all know
Then came Ion Iliescu,another communist fossil,who is responsible for what we call mineriade basicly he asked miners to beat down protesters against his regime !
Technically it was still life imprisonment
@@StefanDruga16 You’re not wrong
Glorie eternă Eroilor Revoluției!
As a romanian i admire your dedication about this struggle.
You have earned my respect brother
Love from romania 🇷🇴💪
This is a great channel, and you really cut through Eastern European bullshit.
Ceaucescu's great plans to modernize the country and "rationalize" where thousands of villages existed which happened to be Hungarians amounted to a forced displacement to assimilate them.
Where did you get this information? You mean that for Romanians life under Ceaușescu was milk and honey and that it was worst for Hungarian ethnics???
Thousands of hungarian villages in Romania? Do you realize how stupid you sound? The only place where thousands of hungarian villages could exist is Mongolia
I was able to understand the events that took place there from a 19 minute video better than my school teachers were ever able to make me
My stepdad was there and he even was close to death when one of the bullets whizzed next to his ear.
5:28 You know that before the Romanisation of Transylvania during communism (last 44 years), there was a 1000 years of forced Magyarization, right? A lot of Romanians in Transylvania were forced to become Roman Catholics and their Romanian names were changed to Hungarian names. If you wanted to study, the schools were only in Hungarian or German. There were also the obvious atrocities like Maria Theresa and her son Joseph II ordering general Adolf Nikolaus von Buccow to destroy Transylvanian orthodox churches and monasteries, the center of Romanian culture, language and education. Some of the monasteries attacked with CANNONS were: Recea, Comana, Berivoi, Sâmbăta de Sus and 33 others.
The infanous 1000 year long magyarization that only produced more ethnicities? 😂😂
Lol if there had been that, Transylvania would be clear Magyar today. Cope.
You think we did romanization only during communist times? There was an active effort during the time of the Kingdom as well. Both our peoples were shitheads, as most peoples tend to be.
@@anotherhistoryenthusiast5874 he wanted to say ~100 years, even though there were like 50 years of magyarization indeed
proud 2 be romanian
0:50 Your hungarian is SO GOOD wtf, much love from hungary
13:07, This felt soooo God damn spine chilling, to know this happened only 30 years ago also sends me the chills
Hello! This was certainly a great great video, but I think it’s of an extraordinary importance to clarify that when ceausescu was holding his speech, people didn’t start booing, they were screaming because of a loud sound, kind of like a shot, that was heard from somewhere. Most likely this was the start of the coup d’etat to take down ceausescu as a mass maneveur to scare the crowd and incite the already growing sentiments of rebellion and frustration. The camera faced up as it was common instruction for the cameras to face the sky if any detterance happened on national television and the crowd came in big numbers near the entrance of the building. Then, from what i remember there were some chants srarting to say “jos ceausescu” down with ceasescu. From then on, everything was already done and decided for :)
As a romanian im impressed because you knew more than i knew and i know alot of history
Already amazing time of uploading keep it up
About the building where was executed , I am from Targoviste , the old military garrison was split in 2 zone : the main building , where Ceausescu was executed , which now is a museum of communism , and the rest of the old barracks , which now is the main base of romanian gendermerie in the region of Dambovita .
Orchestral "Dragostea Din Tei" in your Ratepunk ad? Genius.
My mom lived in that time he was born in 1976 and he said that his life wasnt bad because his dad was a miner and Ceausescu loved miners and the salary of my grandfather was good and they have food from trees pigs,cows, and he said when Ceausescu died she said she was so scared bcs he didnt know what will happen next but today we live in Portugal and our life is good bye
Bine ca v-ati mutat gunoaie securiste lmao :)))
Cate ruble ai primit pentru aceasta postare?
Why Portugalia tho? It's one of the poorer countries of the EU.Unike Germany or the Netherlands.
@@johncarnege latin
@@StefanDruga16 libtards when they see an opinion
My grandma told me a story about the food they were reciving (the food was a problem especialy for those living in cities, as they were totally dependent on gouvernment rationed food). She told me about a relative who drove trucks ( with chickens ) to moscow. To a zoo, to be specific. And while unloading the cargo they saw how big the chickens were, while they back home were getting chicken the size of a fist, mostly bones. She told me that story with hatred in her gut… And now we have to live with the same architype of leaders, thieves who only care about themselves
If you ever feel like you have no future, think about the fact that Nicolae Ceaușescu was a shoe maker before becoming a dictator
Can you make video about how where things in bulgaria during the communism,because i either hear that was total misery or better than today.
I'm from Timisoara and i love this video and tökés lászló who (was the first anti cominist) he was HUNGARIAN!!! and the hungarians helped the anti cominst romanians in this war!
Természetes hogy segítettünk nekik, hisz közös érdekünk volt. Főleg azok után ahogy ceausescu brutálisan elnyomta a magyarokat, és erősen hungarofób politikát alkalmazott. Ha valamiben a magyarok és a románok is meg tudnak egyezni az az, hogy utáljuk a kommunizmust és ceausescut
Btw ceausescu magyarok elleni atrocitásait tanítják manapság nálatok? Vagy arról hallgatnak?
@@bazsamester nem tanítják de egyszer a töri tanár mesélt róla...
@@bazsamester I've actually never heard of them so it's safe to say they dont like disclosing it. What did he actually do?
@@ruairicostin9442 for example there was the village destruction. Hungarians were deported from their (mostly huge Hungarian majority) villages, into bigger cities with Romanian majority population. Ofc the goal of this was to make Hungarians to mix with Romanians, therefore their children will most likely lose their Hungarian identity, and it would have also changed the concentration of the Hungarian population in Transylvania. The deportation in itself would have been extreme enough, but ceausescu didn't stop here. Since after the deportations, a lot of Hungarians just went back to their old villages, the Romanians completely destroyed the Hungarian villages, so they can't go back. They often destroyed it by bulldozers, but sometimes they even flooded them, if they were in valleys.
(btw László Tőkés was also speaking up against this, that was also the reason why they wanted to arrest him)
Another thing was, that Hungarians in Transylvania were not allowed to listen to the Hungarian radio broadcast from Hungary, which was achievable even from Romania. If they were caught, they were locked up in prison.
And these were just some of ceausescu's insane anti-Hungarian chauvinistic policies. After all of this, you can definately understand why killing ceausescu was also a Hungarian interest.
But I also feel sorry for those Romanians who gave their lives that day so that their loved ones could have a better future. And almost nobody knows about their sacrifice. That's sad! We should have a remembrance day commemorating these heroes of Romania. Come on, World governments. Give it to us!
The only hero is Ceausescu, they are victims of CIA & foreign. IS. They planned to be a civil war to occupy Romania and to take Transylvania . Around 300 soldiers army died, they shouted each other due to some diversion made by CIA. After 35 years, the revolution trail was not finalised,
every time I hear the story of this revolution I shed a tear. its so beautiful seeing the crowd of that many people all coming toghether for the sake of this country. so sad the corruption continued, otherwise romania would've been up there with the western giants, thanks to geographical locations
Not so fun fact: The Judges that we're at the trial of Ceaușescu we're supposed to be boarding a helicopter which was supposed to crash at the request of Iliescu. Luckily they refused and went by car instead. Iliescu wanted to blame the Securitatea for the crash.
why, did they know more secrets than Ceaușescu?
@@SilverBullet93GT Ceausescu was an idiot. USSR kept tyrants in charge in commie countries. When USSR left the chat nobody could save Ceausescu.
I was waiting for this video! 😀
it is deeply concerning just how well you managed to pronounce the romanian names.
also it would be cool if you'd make a sequel at some point talking about the clusterfuck that happened after the fall of communism with the rise of iliescu, the mineriads etc
Its important to know that Iliescu was also a communist but he was fired by Ceaușescu after he disagreed with the dicator.
And Iliescu didnt wanted to change anything at first, as he believed the people only rioted against Ceaușescu abd not communism in general.
But this was not the majority opinion among many romanians and so they continued to protest even after this. Eventually Iliescu badically said "Alright, fine. You guys win. We are gonna make new presidential elections and we will outlaw communism". And later in 1990, he run for the office of president and won . And would remain the leader for most of the 90s when the country continued to suffer poverty, emigration and still hadnt pay its forementioned debt while Ion and his cronies enriched themselves (Democracy manifest indeed).
Nowadays, Romania is doing fine-ish.We are now arguably better than during communist years. And considering we havent slided towards a dictatorship or faced ethnic conflict like most of our neighbours is quite an achievement.
Anyway thank you for making this video, Nick. Keep doing these wonderful videos.
My grandparents left Romania long before Ceaucescu. I they were ethnic Germans (though their immigration papers from the 1920s report them as Hungarian speaks so perhaps their parents were multilingual. We don't quite know)
In any event, because of this family history, i grew up watching events in Romania in the 1980s with a lot of interest. It was the Cold War. A primary school teacher was very clear how bad Ceaucescu was, but it took a few years until I could learn the full picture.
I can't tell you how much time i spent watching the news footage coming from Romans when Romanians began to show their discontent with him. It's been good to see Romania become such a better place than it once was. I know there are still problems and the economy needs a bit more boosting, but i would consider Romania a great model for what other Eastern European nations not yet part of the EU could become.
lucky nr 3 intelligent comment in here :) once i finish reading all of them i. might post a percentage of intelligent comments
We even have a song called the hooliganism hymn that translates into better dead than communism!
I really appreciate the part dedicated to hungarians in every video that mentions Romania✨
Pt ca autorul este ungur.
I was three years old at the time of the Revolution, but I still remember queuing with my parents for basic necessities and buying milk and butter with vouchers.
Unfortunately for the country, the 90s were marred by horrible inflation and a seemingly neverending recession until the early 2000s. Boy am I glad I was a kid without a worry in the world during that time. My parents to this day almost never speak of their hardships during the 90s.
These videos are amazing! Thanks from an old vet in Missouri!
imádom a videóid, mindig jót nevetek és egyre jobb magyarod van :D
2:38 What the heck happened there?! Wow! He is either the luckiest or unluckiest dude.
I think you should have also mentioned Petru Groza who was the leader before Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej, great video anyways!
There is some wrong information in this video dude, you are mixing up (1960s and 1970s) with 1980s which should be regarded as two different eras :
-the situation for the average Romanian was less than ideal only after 1981 when Ceausescu decided to repay the debt and the rationalization started, before that it was a very good life, the 70s were the best ages in the history of Romania for the average folk.
-the germans were not forcibly deported. The ones that had families in West Germany were able to emigrate there if the german state paid for their education in Romania. In fact, most of the germans left Romania AFTER THE FALL of Ceausescu when the borders opened up.
-the aim of moving the population from the countryside to the city was not to sway the demographics. It was called systematization and its aim was to free more land for agriculture and reduce public spending by destroying the many villages Romania had and concentrating the population in apartment blocks in cities. Many villages meant more money for transportation, underpopulated schools, and hospitals, etc. For example, this is the reason Germany doesn't allow the existence of towns that have under 10,000 people. In Romania , most towns have around 200.
-electrification of Romania was made by Causescu , before him the overwhelming majority of people had gas lamps, so the situation of electricity was not perfect but was improving, he wanted to develop more nuclear power plants.
- and the BIG ONE : the Romanian revolution was nothing but a coup. It was the result of the fight between Stalinist communists and reformists. The same struggle that destroyed the soviet union.
noooo, you can't speak against the narrative :)
you are comment #4
@thegarfield2414 a revolution where reformist comunists (Iliescu) ended up in power :)) . Yeah , sure.
@thegarfield2414 Iliescu was in Power before the election aswell. And the reasons for his election was that he was the figurehead of the "revolution" and he was the ruler after Ceausescu was ousted from power. He was pretty much anonymous before , he was in charge of some publishing house for scientific books or something like that. It would have been impossible for a nobody like Iliescu to gain so much power if he did not receive "special help". So trust me it was Soviet a backed coup, not a true revolution.
My grandfather was an revolutionist, he stood on the balcony where the people cut out the coat of arms, the place that it happened is now named Centru (center)
"Törénelem? Milyen történelem? Romániának nincsen történelme!" You made my day
You have sense of humour,respect from Southern Romania,many Hungarian people have bought homes on the Danube's Gorge because of the scenery and many Romanians now own homes in Hungary!
Bro i waited so long to see someone comment about this
@@beem3114 Your wait is now over
Exquisite choice of background music
I learned one thing, Romanians don’t easily hit that boiling point, but woe to whatever poor sod that does.
The Revolution itself was shockingly violent, given the nature of Romanians. So yeah. A very good case study
I have to give you credit for pronouncing EVERY single name perfectly 10/10
you don't know how rare that is. I guess it takes another Balkan to pronounce the name of the other, you even avoided pronouncing the "i" in Pitești. Nicely done! I enjoy your channel and your jokes and am thankful that you make videos about my country
Better than any history class!
The helicopter part is *chefs kiss* 👌
It's crazy to know my dad was apart of the revolution now he teaches this