Posted on 12/23/2019 1:45:38 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
When communism collapsed across Eastern Europe in 1989, the process was swift and surprisingly peaceful. Decades of terror and tyranny came to a sudden end with hardly a shot fired: governments stepped down, borders opened, walls fell. One country, however, proved to be the exception. Thirty years ago this week, citizens of Romania were being killed by the hundreds as they took to the streets to demand liberty from their brutal communist regime. Unrest that had begun December 16 in the southwestern city of Timişoara soon spread throughout Romania, fueled by the news that protesters were being gunned down by secret police.
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My wife is Romanian, emigrated here in 69, she shouts at the TV more than me at what’s happening to this country by these scumbags
I have a friend who lives in Bucharest. He was impressed by my knowledge of Romanian history.
I have a daughter in the military and she is currently deployed to Romania.
People interested in the Ceaucescus's Romania MUST read Virginia Prodan's Saving My Assassin. And hang on for the great link to a famous American.
ML/NJ
The Romanian form of Term Limits does seem to work.
That dude had way too many vowels in his name too.
Amazing the the tyranny fell there to give way to freedom, and freedom here is being eroded to make way for Socialist tyranny. I can only hope Pelosi and Schiff-face meet the same face. Or as Greta would say UP AGAINST THE WALL!
We might soon see Romanian Term Limits activated right here in the Virginian Commonwealth.
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