In other news, "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead"
Posted on 07/21/2010 12:24:34 PM PDT by Daffynition
Taking the country by surprise, forensic scientists on Wednesday exhumed what are believed to be the bodies of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena at the request of their children.
Ceausescu ruled Romania for 25 years with an iron fist before being ousted and executed during the 1989 anti-communist revolt in which more than 1,000 people were killed.
Some Romanians doubt that the Ceausescus were really buried in the Ghencea military cemetery in west Bucharest. There is also some nostalgia for the communist period and regrets that the couple was executed on Christmas Day, 1989.
The news of the exhumation, the latest development in a five-year court case, broke as most Romanians were asleep. Officials rapidly closed the cemetery as dozens of journalists began arriving at the gates. A few elderly people wandered around the sprawling cemetery but were kept away from the exhumations by guards.
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Rigor mortis hasn’t even set in completely and the bodies aren’t totally cold and now they are digging them up? You are either ignorant, naive, or stupid to do such a thing. What are they teaching those young skulls full of mush in Romania these days?
They’re still dead, Jim.
Amazing article. Thanks.
How can there be nostalgia and regret for two totally opposite things like communism and Christ's birthday?
I think this qualifies as a fail.
You are dead-on right. Ceausescu's stock went WAY up after he contested the Soviets' occupation of Czechoslovakia in '68. He steered an independent course away from the direction of the Warsaw Pact and opened dialogue with Western nations. Had he liberalized the Romanian economy and stepped down in the late 1970s, you'd see statues there in his honor to this day. Between '79 and '89, he and Elena, that megalomaniacal wife of his, went off the deep end and ran that country to ruin.
It's worth noting the reason the orphanages were so full: Ceausescu outlawed contraceptives and abortion in an attempt to force population growth. Food for thought.
Bump.
What is with people and their desire to exhume bodies.
One Pope exhumed the body of his predecessor, tried his dead body in court, condemned him, and had his corpse drug through the streets of Rome and thrown in the Tiber.
King Henry II of England was the patron of a church and had his mistress “Rosamund” (Rose of the world) buried in the church. Later those that kept that church objected to a “whore” being buried there, exhumed her body, and had it reburied. Those that were tasked with this onerous duty had a sense of humor about it and marked THIS upon her new gravestone....
Here lies Rosamund,
A Rose of the World
Not a clean rose
She no longer smells Rosy
So hold your nose.
The effin audacity of theses red sons of bitches just voting themselves more and more of the productive class's money is starting to wear real thin.
Perhaps our own President should learn from history what happens when the country is bankrupt with foreign debt and facing shortages of essentials like electric power and dissent is repressed.
Yes, it would have been so much better those children if their skulls were crushed in the womb. /s
the left has nostalgia for these dictators because they are jealous of the power these regimes held and wish they had.
This wouldn’t have happened if the rest of the family had been executed along with the criminals. Not that there’s anything right with that.
Still dead, huh?
I long for the Messiah to have his Ceausescu moment, that instant on the balcony when he spoke, the crowd roared and he realized his time was over.
I long for the Messiah to have his Ceausescu moment, that instant on the balcony when he spoke, the crowd roared disapproval and he realized his time was over.
“Ceausescu was also known for the ruthless way in which he stifled dissent. His Securitate secret police were believed to have 700,000 informers in the Balkan nation of 22 million.”
On 21 December 80,000 to 100,000 people gather outside the headquarters of the Communist Party in Republican Square in a mass rally organised by the party in support of Ceausescu and broadcast on national television.
However, as Ceausescu speaks to the crowd from the balcony of the building, he is shouted down by chants such as “Timisoara”, “Down with the murderers”, “Down with the dictatorship”, “Romanians awake”, and “We are ready to die.” The television broadcast is stopped, but not before images of a visibly shaken Ceausescu are aired.
Ceausescu retreats inside the party headquarters. Outside the number of demonstrators converging on the square grows throughout the night. It is reported that the minister for defence, General Vasile Milea, is summarily executed after he refuses to obey Ceausescu’s directive and order his troops to fire on the crowd.
The army sides with the demonstrators on 22 December. Ceausescu makes a final attempt to address the crowd, but seeing that situation is now out of his control he flees the capital with his wife, boarding his personal helicopter from the roof of the party headquarters building.
Several hours later the Ceausescus are captured at Cîmpulung, about 100 km northwest of Bucharest, and returned to a secret location in Bucharest.
And I’m certain there are those who long for Lenin, Stalin and Mao. National pride runs deep.
In other news, "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead"
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