Posted on 12/27/2014 12:46:18 PM PST by Sean_Anthony
The scars left on the soul and minds of so many surviving victims of communism are hard to heal
On Christmas 1989, twenty-five years ago, the brutal communist dictatorship of Romania ended with the execution of the tyrant Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena in front of a firing squad at Tirgoviste, following a brief trial. His reign of terror lasted 24 years (1965-1989).
The first communist despot, Gheorghe Georghiu-Dej (1945-1964) was so ruthless, the citizens felt like “hunted” animals during his regime.
Almost forty-four years of brutal communism left a deep and festering wound that would be hard to heal and would scar a few generations. In 1990 the world found out about the dreadful orphanages where hundreds of thousands of “orphans” were institutionalized under the benevolent “care of the state.”
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But we were repeatedly told in those years that Communism was not that bad and that evil right wing groups like the John Birch Society were exagerrating the conditions under Ceaucescu.
Who can forget the fall of Ceaucescu and his evil wife? It was like it was yesterday. Those orphaned children were adopted by many in the west and many of them were very sick, physically and mentally, indeed.
What a great day it was.
And when Nixon went there (since Romania was helping with his China opening) he danced with folk dancers in a public square in Bucharest—underneath which were cells of the secret police.
But so what? They were expendable. Just like the prisoners in Cuba, in China, etc. etc.
I remember it so clearly! Revenge IS sweet.
So what ended up taking its place?
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