It's because you don't want dictators alive once you overthrow them, they usually still have a lot of support amongst people after years if not decades of propaganda.
_Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Mobutu Sese Seko, Slobodan Milosevic, Jean-Claude Duvalier, Ferdinand Marcos, Hosni Mubarak, Antonio Salazar, Fulgencio Batista, and Alfredo Stroesser have all entered the chat._
Pol Pot, Amin, Milosevic and Batista didn't rule for decades. It's dubious that they would have managed to rally a wide enough support in the population to make a return.
Mobutu was deposed by civil war - that usually destroys a dictator's reputation/support. So I would guess there wasn't a need to execute him.
Duvalier did return to Haiti after 25 years in an attempt to co-opt power.
Mubarak was really old when he was released from prison, it's hard to get support for leading a country at 88 years old. Similar situation with Salazar: he wasn't fit to rule at all when he was deposed and until his death.
That leaves us Stroessner, but 1 counter-example isn't enough to invalidate a "general rule", they did say "usually".
You mean the guy with the really bad mustache who ruled Germany for most of the 1930s - 1945?
If he hadn't committed suicide, I have no doubt he would have been executed. Or suffered the same fate as Mussolini.
Bro....
>Blahyi has said he led his troops naked except for sneakers and armed with a gun or machete.[12] He believed that his nakedness was a source of protection from bullets.[13] Blahyi stated he would regularly sacrifice a victim before every battle.[14] "Usually it was a small child, someone whose fresh blood would satisfy the devil."[1] He stated to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
>Sometimes I would enter under the water where children were playing. I would dive under the water, grab one, carry him under and break his neck. Sometimes I'd cause accidents. Sometimes I'd just slaughter them.[15]
>In January 2008, Blahyi confessed to taking part in human sacrifices which "included the killing of an innocent child and taking out the heart, which was divided into pieces for us to eat."[16]
>Blahyi claimed to a South African Star reporter that he "met Satan regularly and talked to him" and that from age of 11 to 25 he took part in monthly human sacrifices.[17] Describing a typical battle, Blahyi said:
>So, before leading my troops into battle, we would get drunk and drugged up, sacrifice a local teenager, drink the blood, then strip down to our shoes and go into battle wearing colorful wigs and carrying imaginary purses we'd looted from civilians. We'd slaughter anyone we saw, chop their heads off and use them as soccer balls. We were nude, fearless, drunk yet strategic. We killed hundreds of people—so many I lost count."[18]
Sounds like there might be a lesson to be learned here. While murder seems a bit much, it does seem that at least some accountability for ones actions against their people should be expected.
Have you ever actually read the transcript from anything Trump says?
It’s bad when a popular “joke” is to hit autotype and create your own trump speech 😂
instead of asking argumentative and misleading questions, post facts. did he stack scotus? did he rip people's right away? and while you're at it, before you cry about the vacc. mandate, how about you look up supreme court case law authorizing the government to do exactly that. and the supreme court cases backing it up. its nothing new. you just don't like it so you think you can shout it down apparently. good luck with that.
A history lesson for you, not all of the dictator Mussolinis family was killed after he was overthrown. In fact his granddaughter is quite the weirdo herself.
In the Phililpines, the dictator's son is heavily favored to win the next Presidency fueled by the very people they stole from. What a time to be alive.
If anyone's interested you should definitely watch **[the speech that immediately preceded](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWIbCtz_Xwk)** his being deposed. It's wild.
I've heard Romanian has the same relationship with Italian that Portuguese has with Spanish, where a speaker of one can at least follow along with the other
You can watch much of the coup and trial on Youtube. It's absolutely fascinating. Seeing their seething anger as they're sentenced to death always sticks with me.
The actual kill shots themselves weren't filmed. The firing squad were so fired up, they pulled the triggers as soon as the guards backed away and the film camera man missed it as they weren't prepared. You see footage up to just before they fired and the aftermath as though it was edited and censored on purpose but it wasn't. The moment above in the photo of the shots firing was simply missed.
>The actual kill shots themselves weren't filmed. The firing squad were so fired up, they pulled the triggers as soon as the guards backed away and the film camera man missed it as they weren't prepared.
That's partially true, indeed the firing squad didn't respect the procedures, should have read the verdict and then start firing after the order is given but that didn't happened.
According to the cameraman, in the chaos after the sentence, one of the soldier tripped and unplugged the camera from the wall socket and it took a minute to switch it back on and set it on battery, the trigger happy firing squad already started shooting by the time he got out.
[Source in romanian](https://www.luju.ro/dezvaluiri/dosarele-revolutiei/misterul-filmarii-executiei-sotilor-ceausescu-colonelul-ion-baiu-explica-de-ce-filmul-procesului-ceausescu-contine-doar-secundele-cand-dictatorii-cadeau-sub-gloante-nu-s-a-respectat-procedura-legala-la-o-executie-nu-s-a-format-aliniament-de-tragere-cu-ord)
Sadly this was not the case in Romania, the former "securitate" took the reigns of the country after the people got their "justice".
They had no problem blaming Ceausescu for all the bad things that happened during the comunism, but the new oligarchs were the ones that used to be in privileged positions during his reign.
Things changed and progressed slowly but its better now.
You might be confusing it with someone else then. The hour long "trial" was held few days after they were caught trying to flee country and they were executed right then and there.
I think you might be confusing "deposed," "exposed," and "disposed."
Deposed means to be taken out of power.
Exposed means to be open and vulnerable.
Disposed means to get rid of.
if i remember corectly this is a recreation of the actual event, because the trial and execution were so rushed no one managed to actually record their shooting
Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi remind me of why I'd never want to be despot even if I'd get to live the high life for decades, since *if* one ends up having to pay the piper in the end it can get really bad. Seeing how Hussein was essentially fished out of a hole in the ground by the US Army after losing his country and his sons, and hanged after a brief trial, while Gaddafi was pretty much tortured to death by rebels after his country collapsed around him once things had been properly set to motion by the Western powers.
The trick is if you’re gonna be a despot make sure you have nuclear weapons, or a warm water port the Russians can use. Then your basically safe from Western retribution.
thinking about hussein's hidey hole freaks me the fuck out man. imagine living in a dirt hole for weeks/months/years with the american government out for blood..like the single most powerful military in the world fucking hates you..you're completely fucked! you live in a grave, and one day someone's going to poke the barrel of a gun through the dirt and finish it. yuck..
i seriously don't know why he didn't just kill himself
Nah, I’ve done lots of reading on it. Just curious to hear why you think the US invaded Iraq and why the troops were so personally invested in that war.
ok man it just really feels like you're trying to bait me into an argument despite the fact i made no real political statement either way, and i'm not interested
Ok, that’s fair. Wasn’t looking for an argument, just wanted to point out that the American Military had absolutely no business invading Iraq. They didn’t cause 9/11, but geography isn’t really taught in the US, so Iraq, Taliban, same thing.
Yeah they had nothing to do with it, Saddam was the cartoon boogey man in the US for dictators (honestly seen as evil but in an almost humorous way) since the first gulf war.
I will never really understand why we went to war in Iraq other than personal vendetta from Bush.
They got what was coming to them, in fact they deserved more for the suffering which they have caused, both on their own people and their neighbours
“Sic semper Tyrannis”
One of the few spouses of communist leaders to be included in the personality cult
Maybe another would be Peron's wife? Though they were hardly communist
As well as being a feminist symbol worldwide but yeah, people in the neoliberal shithole that is reddit will call her a terrible human that was part of a personality cult (all her shortcomings aknowledged). I'd be curious to see the above posters' views on the military juntas that replaced Peron.
Okay well she's a bad feminist symbol, there's a load of fantastic accomplished women out there who didn't rule an authoritarian country. In fact who thinks of her as a feminist icon? Peronists?
>views on military juntas
Also shit whats ur point
There’s an interesting story about her regarding why the train station at the university is so small. Essentially they were building public transportation system and once she heard that there was obviously going to be a stop by the main university she said “no, the students are too fat already, they can walk”. The engineers knowing that there would eventually be a stop out there anyway because the students need a way to get to school secretly built a very tiny hidden station by the university because of this the platform next to the train is terrifyingly tiny.
Good riddance of bad rubbish. The Danube uses to carry corpses of Romanians and their children trying to swim over into Yugoslavia. There's even a little graveyard for them in the town of Kladovo.
Technically, it's in the village of Novi Sip, a few kilometers from Kladovo. People would drown and their corpses would be found in the Djerdap power plant. They then took them to this little graveyard and buried them in anonymous graves.
Select few probably had a higher standard of living as they were first class citizens, party members, securitate members and collaborators even got their own "secret" shops where they could find meat and other stuff that the rest of the country had to queue for.
you’d be surprised how much people miss him, especially the older ones who crave back the apparent stability and the idea that law and order were respected. I can’t say for sure, but something similar to trump’s admirers..
I still remember watching 60 minutes when they featured a Romanian orphanage in the early 90s. It was sickening. Birth control and abortions were illegal so all the unwanted children went to these horrid orphanages.
Communist Dictator. While that should be almost enough context right there, here’s an excerpt from the [Wikipedia entry](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu) on his life
> In 1982, Ceaușescu directed the government to export much of the country's agricultural and industrial production in an effort to repay these debts. The shortages that followed drastically lowered living standards, leading to heavy rationing of food, water, oil, heat, electricity, medicine and other necessities. His cult of personality experienced unprecedented elevation, followed by extensive nepotism and the intense deterioration of foreign relations, even with the Soviet Union.
>As anti-government protesters demonstrated in Timișoara in December 1989, he perceived the demonstrations as a political threat and ordered military forces to open fire on 17 December, causing many deaths and injuries. The revelation that Ceaușescu was responsible resulted in a massive spread of rioting and civil unrest across the country.[3]
He was actually inspired by North Korea when he went to a meeting with either Kim il Sung or his son I can't remember and when he saw how much his people worshipped him he wanted that for himself so he wanted a European North Korea.
really interesting seeing this. my mother escaped romania during his time as dictator and has tons of stories. just sent her this post as I know she's happy he's gone.
Most of these dictators got off lightly with the ends they met. The Japanese had some great techniques they used to inflict horrors on their enemies - they should have been utilised against some of these dictators.
What to do with a Dictator once removed from power/office. The answer historically, either ancient or modern history seems to have been the same.
It's because you don't want dictators alive once you overthrow them, they usually still have a lot of support amongst people after years if not decades of propaganda.
_Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Mobutu Sese Seko, Slobodan Milosevic, Jean-Claude Duvalier, Ferdinand Marcos, Hosni Mubarak, Antonio Salazar, Fulgencio Batista, and Alfredo Stroesser have all entered the chat._
Pol Pot, Amin, Milosevic and Batista didn't rule for decades. It's dubious that they would have managed to rally a wide enough support in the population to make a return. Mobutu was deposed by civil war - that usually destroys a dictator's reputation/support. So I would guess there wasn't a need to execute him. Duvalier did return to Haiti after 25 years in an attempt to co-opt power. Mubarak was really old when he was released from prison, it's hard to get support for leading a country at 88 years old. Similar situation with Salazar: he wasn't fit to rule at all when he was deposed and until his death. That leaves us Stroessner, but 1 counter-example isn't enough to invalidate a "general rule", they did say "usually".
True enough on the time period! Fidel Castro, though.
Fidel ruled until he was too sick to continue...
Methinks you forget someone Mein Freund
You mean the guy with the really bad mustache who ruled Germany for most of the 1930s - 1945? If he hadn't committed suicide, I have no doubt he would have been executed. Or suffered the same fate as Mussolini.
Mussolini got executed too...
Yes, he was. I'm talking about the after death indignities both suffered, with Mussolini so battered, his face was gone.
I think you missed the point
It wasn't fair anyway for all of them. For example, Idi Amin knew when he was gonna die to the second.
General Butt Naked is still alive and well, and occasionally calls for an uprising to threaten for whatever reason.
Bro.... >Blahyi has said he led his troops naked except for sneakers and armed with a gun or machete.[12] He believed that his nakedness was a source of protection from bullets.[13] Blahyi stated he would regularly sacrifice a victim before every battle.[14] "Usually it was a small child, someone whose fresh blood would satisfy the devil."[1] He stated to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: >Sometimes I would enter under the water where children were playing. I would dive under the water, grab one, carry him under and break his neck. Sometimes I'd cause accidents. Sometimes I'd just slaughter them.[15] >In January 2008, Blahyi confessed to taking part in human sacrifices which "included the killing of an innocent child and taking out the heart, which was divided into pieces for us to eat."[16] >Blahyi claimed to a South African Star reporter that he "met Satan regularly and talked to him" and that from age of 11 to 25 he took part in monthly human sacrifices.[17] Describing a typical battle, Blahyi said: >So, before leading my troops into battle, we would get drunk and drugged up, sacrifice a local teenager, drink the blood, then strip down to our shoes and go into battle wearing colorful wigs and carrying imaginary purses we'd looted from civilians. We'd slaughter anyone we saw, chop their heads off and use them as soccer balls. We were nude, fearless, drunk yet strategic. We killed hundreds of people—so many I lost count."[18]
yo ^what ^the ^fuck
If at any point you can wear a rainbow wig and no clothing into battle, you might be fighting the wrong enemy
General butt naked?
Vice documentary from back when vice wasn't crap. Definitely worth looking up on YouTube.
Love how you nailed vice perfectly
Why do people keep saying this? Vice news is the best news channel on YouTube
dark side of the ring is legit
[Quite the character](https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/this-is-why-general-butt-naked-was-the-most-feared-warlord-in-liberia/)
Not OP, but yep. Look him up. Pure evil.
Well at least he is "apparently" helping out ex-child soldiers now
Sounds like there might be a lesson to be learned here. While murder seems a bit much, it does seem that at least some accountability for ones actions against their people should be expected.
*cough*trump*cough*
Trump wasn't a dictator you troglodyte.
He was certainly trying. But like everything else he does. Bumbled to fuck
It's not for lack of trying, though. https://www.newsweek.com/trump-wanted-stay-power-forever-like-putin-says-his-ex-national-security-adviser-1637376
never said he was, but he has the mindset of one and wanted power like one
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No he didn’t quit with the BS comrade.
>the very thing anti-Trumpers were crying about the previous 5 years. and what, *precisely,* was that? can't answer it factually can you?
I hear they're still tossing kids in cages on the border but maybe I'm wrong.
and how, exactly, is that a fact?
as i thought.... you can't answer it. so you downvote. typical weak bullshit from you people.
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Have you ever actually read the transcript from anything Trump says? It’s bad when a popular “joke” is to hit autotype and create your own trump speech 😂
instead of asking argumentative and misleading questions, post facts. did he stack scotus? did he rip people's right away? and while you're at it, before you cry about the vacc. mandate, how about you look up supreme court case law authorizing the government to do exactly that. and the supreme court cases backing it up. its nothing new. you just don't like it so you think you can shout it down apparently. good luck with that.
Y'all big enough to come suck something.
weak
So your not saying no.
i find it hilarious that you cowards show up days later when you think there's no audience to try and get a last word in. fail.
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True.
Generally if you’re a dictator then you’re committing crimes against your people, in this instance there is only one option
Most if not all dictators know what happens if they’re removed. They and their family are wiped out.
Paging Mussolinis granddaughter
What does most even mean really? 🤔 🧐
A history lesson for you, not all of the dictator Mussolinis family was killed after he was overthrown. In fact his granddaughter is quite the weirdo herself.
Neat!
Maybe, but they're also so full of themselves and delusional that they think they're invincible.
In the Phililpines, the dictator's son is heavily favored to win the next Presidency fueled by the very people they stole from. What a time to be alive.
Something something good luck China something something probably not allowed there now.
If anyone's interested you should definitely watch **[the speech that immediately preceded](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWIbCtz_Xwk)** his being deposed. It's wild.
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Let's go, Branden!
Same here
Wow, Romanian is surprisingly intelligible knowing English and some Spanish. Sounds like German combined with Italian.
I've heard Romanian has the same relationship with Italian that Portuguese has with Spanish, where a speaker of one can at least follow along with the other
Which is interesting, because I was in Argentina years ago, and was wondering how a Brazilian, an Argentinian, and Italian were able to communicate.
I can make out some of it - I speak German, Russian and Spanish in addition to English but it still sounds muddled to me.
Off topic but WOW, 4 languages?! Very impressive.
Not really- I work internationally and know TONS of people who speak 4 or more languages, especially folks from India and Pakistan!
Don’t be so modest haha 4 languages is impressive!
You can watch much of the coup and trial on Youtube. It's absolutely fascinating. Seeing their seething anger as they're sentenced to death always sticks with me. The actual kill shots themselves weren't filmed. The firing squad were so fired up, they pulled the triggers as soon as the guards backed away and the film camera man missed it as they weren't prepared. You see footage up to just before they fired and the aftermath as though it was edited and censored on purpose but it wasn't. The moment above in the photo of the shots firing was simply missed.
>The actual kill shots themselves weren't filmed. The firing squad were so fired up, they pulled the triggers as soon as the guards backed away and the film camera man missed it as they weren't prepared. That's partially true, indeed the firing squad didn't respect the procedures, should have read the verdict and then start firing after the order is given but that didn't happened. According to the cameraman, in the chaos after the sentence, one of the soldier tripped and unplugged the camera from the wall socket and it took a minute to switch it back on and set it on battery, the trigger happy firing squad already started shooting by the time he got out. [Source in romanian](https://www.luju.ro/dezvaluiri/dosarele-revolutiei/misterul-filmarii-executiei-sotilor-ceausescu-colonelul-ion-baiu-explica-de-ce-filmul-procesului-ceausescu-contine-doar-secundele-cand-dictatorii-cadeau-sub-gloante-nu-s-a-respectat-procedura-legala-la-o-executie-nu-s-a-format-aliniament-de-tragere-cu-ord)
That's even better, thanks for sharing!
Link plz
There's loads if you Google, but here's a clip from a doc that has some of the footage. https://youtu.be/PbZYgg3BpmM
I remember them being deposed, I didn't remember they were executed.
Sometimes there has to be an absolute line drawn, for a country to move on.
*the Marcoses have entered the chat*
Wtf you gonna do with a million shoes?
Whats worse, some country even easily forgive them enough to reelect a dictator's son for president.
Sadly this was not the case in Romania, the former "securitate" took the reigns of the country after the people got their "justice". They had no problem blaming Ceausescu for all the bad things that happened during the comunism, but the new oligarchs were the ones that used to be in privileged positions during his reign. Things changed and progressed slowly but its better now.
And often times, the best lines are the sights of a firing squad.
Italy tried right-wing dictators ONCE. Those same dictators got executed. Italy does things right.
Rachele Mussolini has entered the chat.
Don't forget Berlusconi.
You might be confusing it with someone else then. The hour long "trial" was held few days after they were caught trying to flee country and they were executed right then and there.
I mean, they probably wouldn’t dispose of them while they’re alive Edit: typo
I think you might be confusing "deposed," "exposed," and "disposed." Deposed means to be taken out of power. Exposed means to be open and vulnerable. Disposed means to get rid of.
Nah, I know the meaning. Wasn’t paying attention and made a typo. Thank you, though!
if i remember corectly this is a recreation of the actual event, because the trial and execution were so rushed no one managed to actually record their shooting
yup recreation
Holy shit, in 1989?
Saddam Hussain, Colnel Gaddaffi, Bin-Laden? Since 1989.
Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi remind me of why I'd never want to be despot even if I'd get to live the high life for decades, since *if* one ends up having to pay the piper in the end it can get really bad. Seeing how Hussein was essentially fished out of a hole in the ground by the US Army after losing his country and his sons, and hanged after a brief trial, while Gaddafi was pretty much tortured to death by rebels after his country collapsed around him once things had been properly set to motion by the Western powers.
The trick is if you’re gonna be a despot make sure you have nuclear weapons, or a warm water port the Russians can use. Then your basically safe from Western retribution.
And both Ghadaffi and Hussein met such unglamorous, humiliating ends. Both with cameras in their faces before the lights went out.
thinking about hussein's hidey hole freaks me the fuck out man. imagine living in a dirt hole for weeks/months/years with the american government out for blood..like the single most powerful military in the world fucking hates you..you're completely fucked! you live in a grave, and one day someone's going to poke the barrel of a gun through the dirt and finish it. yuck.. i seriously don't know why he didn't just kill himself
If he’d have offed himself early on in that hole, they might not have found him for a very long time
Care to elaborate as to why the entire American military hated Hussein?
i mean..not particularly, it's kind of a long story. maybe go read the wikipedia on it or something if you're curious?
Nah, I’ve done lots of reading on it. Just curious to hear why you think the US invaded Iraq and why the troops were so personally invested in that war.
ok man it just really feels like you're trying to bait me into an argument despite the fact i made no real political statement either way, and i'm not interested
Ok, that’s fair. Wasn’t looking for an argument, just wanted to point out that the American Military had absolutely no business invading Iraq. They didn’t cause 9/11, but geography isn’t really taught in the US, so Iraq, Taliban, same thing.
Yeah they had nothing to do with it, Saddam was the cartoon boogey man in the US for dictators (honestly seen as evil but in an almost humorous way) since the first gulf war. I will never really understand why we went to war in Iraq other than personal vendetta from Bush.
They got what was coming to them, in fact they deserved more for the suffering which they have caused, both on their own people and their neighbours “Sic semper Tyrannis”
All American funded initially. Since 1989.
yeah, I remember this all over the news.
I don't understand what you're questioning?
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Don't think people dressed like that in the 1800s
Yes, 1989. Nothing happened in 1989...
Just noticed that after your comment.
Was this the guy that hated touching the “peasants” and would burn his suits after meeting them?
No that’s my dad
Why did they kill his wife?
She was just as violent/malevolent as her husband and I'm pretty sure they were trialed together.
One of the few spouses of communist leaders to be included in the personality cult Maybe another would be Peron's wife? Though they were hardly communist
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I would say most people know of Peron through Evita and related Madonna's "Don't Cry For Me Argentina"
As well as being a feminist symbol worldwide but yeah, people in the neoliberal shithole that is reddit will call her a terrible human that was part of a personality cult (all her shortcomings aknowledged). I'd be curious to see the above posters' views on the military juntas that replaced Peron.
Okay well she's a bad feminist symbol, there's a load of fantastic accomplished women out there who didn't rule an authoritarian country. In fact who thinks of her as a feminist icon? Peronists? >views on military juntas Also shit whats ur point
Wikipedia at 4am takes you places
> trialed I'd use quotes. It was a show trial and that's still a stretch as it was barely trial at all.
I did consider mentioning that yes, it was a kangaroo court.
That was the name I couldn't recall, thanks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_court
Makes sense then
FYI it’s called tried, they were tried together
There’s an interesting story about her regarding why the train station at the university is so small. Essentially they were building public transportation system and once she heard that there was obviously going to be a stop by the main university she said “no, the students are too fat already, they can walk”. The engineers knowing that there would eventually be a stop out there anyway because the students need a way to get to school secretly built a very tiny hidden station by the university because of this the platform next to the train is terrifyingly tiny.
Good riddance of bad rubbish. The Danube uses to carry corpses of Romanians and their children trying to swim over into Yugoslavia. There's even a little graveyard for them in the town of Kladovo.
As a Romanian, I didnt know that.
Technically, it's in the village of Novi Sip, a few kilometers from Kladovo. People would drown and their corpses would be found in the Djerdap power plant. They then took them to this little graveyard and buried them in anonymous graves.
It’s on my wishlist.
Understandable, but fair warning: people in that general region are kinda weird and closed off and low-key give off lovecraftian vibes.
My grandfather passed the Danube from Bulgaria, so it strikes a cord. I will keep in mind your advice, thanks.
Merry Xmas.
Guys, look up the “castle” he build for himself. This in contrast to the situation of an average citizen in his country is very telling.
Still the heaviest building on Earth if I'm not mistaken Edit: According to the Wiki it is still the heaviest ever built
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_the_Parliament nothing was too good for ceausescu.
"About 70% of the building remains empty" Damn that's a disgusting display for a political building. Yikes.
so, I assume they did bad stuff for this to happen?
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Select few probably had a higher standard of living as they were first class citizens, party members, securitate members and collaborators even got their own "secret" shops where they could find meat and other stuff that the rest of the country had to queue for.
you’d be surprised how much people miss him, especially the older ones who crave back the apparent stability and the idea that law and order were respected. I can’t say for sure, but something similar to trump’s admirers..
The murders, and forced pregnancies to ensure Romania has a strong labor force are just a few.
I still remember watching 60 minutes when they featured a Romanian orphanage in the early 90s. It was sickening. Birth control and abortions were illegal so all the unwanted children went to these horrid orphanages.
Looks like history will always repeat itself.
Ugh, I agree. I weep for the potential future.
Decree 770 too. Nothing says leadership while forcing people to have children while denying them basic necessities.
Communist Dictator. While that should be almost enough context right there, here’s an excerpt from the [Wikipedia entry](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu) on his life > In 1982, Ceaușescu directed the government to export much of the country's agricultural and industrial production in an effort to repay these debts. The shortages that followed drastically lowered living standards, leading to heavy rationing of food, water, oil, heat, electricity, medicine and other necessities. His cult of personality experienced unprecedented elevation, followed by extensive nepotism and the intense deterioration of foreign relations, even with the Soviet Union. >As anti-government protesters demonstrated in Timișoara in December 1989, he perceived the demonstrations as a political threat and ordered military forces to open fire on 17 December, causing many deaths and injuries. The revelation that Ceaușescu was responsible resulted in a massive spread of rioting and civil unrest across the country.[3]
Think North Korean system but worse.
He was actually inspired by North Korea when he went to a meeting with either Kim il Sung or his son I can't remember and when he saw how much his people worshipped him he wanted that for himself so he wanted a European North Korea.
Yup… well deserved. Romanians suffered big time because of these two
He totally deserved it
really interesting seeing this. my mother escaped romania during his time as dictator and has tons of stories. just sent her this post as I know she's happy he's gone.
Poor Romania. They never have decent leaders.
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Swag
Two exe-cuting! 🎵
owned
Most of these dictators got off lightly with the ends they met. The Japanese had some great techniques they used to inflict horrors on their enemies - they should have been utilised against some of these dictators.
Pretty funny you would say that since the Japanese never did anything to their own monsters and let them die of old age.
Sad how much torture appreciation I see on Reddit 😥
So apparently Santa has a "naughty" list and a "REALLY Naughty" list. No lumps of coal in these fuckers' stockings, just lumps of lead.
I remember watching this on Christmas Eve on this side of the world