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When Ceasescu assumed power in the sixties, things were fairly moderate; conditions actually improved for several years.
What changed?
[…] the need to pay the country's debts, but something else. […] Building a cult of personality. […] Listen, Ceausescu may be near illiterate, but […] he's a statesman and a mastermind. He's slowly made people believe that he's a god and we must follow him, blindly.
— Mar 09, 2025 11:46AM
What changed?
[…] the need to pay the country's debts, but something else. […] Building a cult of personality. […] Listen, Ceausescu may be near illiterate, but […] he's a statesman and a mastermind. He's slowly made people believe that he's a god and we must follow him, blindly.
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I stood, staring at the seven letters [freedom], while a lump the size of a fist formed in my throat. Half a dozen communist regimes had fallen in succession, yet Romania remained unaffected. Why?
Had the world forgotten us? Or had Ceausescu ingeniously built a fence of national communism that was impenetrable from the outside as well as the inside?
— Mar 09, 2025 03:49PM
Had the world forgotten us? Or had Ceausescu ingeniously built a fence of national communism that was impenetrable from the outside as well as the inside?
Ioana
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You think you know someone. And when you realize you're wrong, the humiliation steals something from you. Your mind becomes a thick forest of dark thoughts and you wonder— what else am I not seeing? But I couldn't figure it out. Who was I angrier with? [My best friend] or myself?
— Mar 09, 2025 11:56AM
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But the characters in movies […] didn't have to stand in line for food. If they turned on a faucet, hot water rolled out. If they didn't like something, they complained out loud. […]
But crazier-the interactions. They looked at one another for extended periods without diverting their eyes. There was an ease between them. Unspoken comfort.
They weren't worried they might be standing next to an informer. Like me.
— Mar 08, 2025 09:24PM
But crazier-the interactions. They looked at one another for extended periods without diverting their eyes. There was an ease between them. Unspoken comfort.
They weren't worried they might be standing next to an informer. Like me.
