Communism has a great future behind it.
Had a happy ending though,
I know a Romanian that lived through that time. IF you were a friend of the dictator life was good, you could get healthcare and a job.
If not.....
I would love to see a juxtaposition of the rhetoric from today’s Democratic candidates, alongside that of Hitler’s campaign speeches.
They are much closer in similarity than most people think. Hitler primarily ran on a Socialist platform. He didn’t talk about Jews, he talked about the German economy.
I’ve been loaned a book written by a Romanian major general defector (first name is Ion - don’t recall the last name) about the Ceaucescous.
Pretty horrific stuff.
I was in Romania a short while after the revolution. NOTHING worked, the work ethic was gone, buildings were left half finished, whole sections of cities were destroyed to make way for huge apartment blocks he wanted everyone to live in, he had built a massive castle for himself in Bucharest, it was a disaster and not one person we found would say anything positive about him.
Through work I have met and become friends with several people from Romania. We have had discussions about communism and capitalism. Each one of them says the idiots who taut Socialism now would last about 10 minutes living under true Socialism.
Why don’t you ask the people of Romania how they feel about Ceausescu’s regime? Or just look it up on Wikipedia? His ignominious end (in many ways similar to Mussolini’s) should answer all questions.