After this speech he ran away, was caught and was executed 4 days later, still wearing the same clothes. One of the most underrated moments of documented history, this.
Agreed. I truly believe that detailed documentation of such events is discouraged by the current elite... They would not want to give an armed population any ideas...
Marketoromagnolo What they looked like is irrelevant. It’s their tyranny, brutality, and the crimes against their own people that define them. And they seemed incredibly out of touch with this speech, deluding themselves that they could turn back the clock to 1968, and his speech criticizing the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Most of this speech was just a repetition, over and over, of the same tired slogans. As one Romanian put it, in a documentary, what good was a small rise in pay, when the stores are empty of food. Obviously, the couple hadn’t been paying attention to events across the Soviet Union the previous few years (since Gorbachev came to power), and specifically during the previous few months, as Communist regimes toppled throughout Eastern Europe, and that dramatic night when the Berlin Wall came down. They should have known that the game was up then. But that’s what happens when one surrounds oneself with no one but sycophants and toadies.
Ceauşescu: "Better to die in battle, in full glory than to once again be slaves upon your ancient ground, and we must fight to live free and independent!" Crowd: He's right. Let's rush the stage!
The crowd was dumbaf and didn't understand what he was talking about. Now we know and we wish he were alive. I personally apologize for what they did to him, he didn't deserve it. He was fighting for the freedom of our country 😕
@@familybusiness1224 Many, tho not all, people who are murdered, didn't deserve it, often, tho not always, those that killed them did deserve to die, and eventually they do anyway but, not soon enough 🙂
And now Romania is the slaves of European Union, only difference is that the Romanian state doesn't own the factories and land in which they work at but foreigners from European Union. I.e. their largest bank and company in the country is owned by the French, their largest automotive company Dacia is owned by the French, their largest Petroleum company is owned by the Austrians.... Go down the list yourself and you will see what I'm talking about.
Ceausescu: "Better die in battle, in full glory, than once again be slaves upon our ancient ground" Millions of Romanians: You know what? He's right! *executes Ceausescu*
He got overthrown a literally week after he went in front of people in a speech like this and announced that "Romania has paid off all its foreign debts to international scoundrels who enslaved almost every nation in the world. Romania now owes nothing to no one. Romania is finally free". And then they got him. :)
Dictator manual, page 56, paragraph 7: You must sprinkle "independence", "sovereignty", "the people", [country_name] or [ideology_name] every two sentences for a well rounded, satisfying speech.
I have very vivid memories of his death. I remember seeing people spitting at his picture and his and his wife's bodies lying in the streets after being executed all over the news. I couldn't believe that a ruler can have such a death! At that age, I truly believed that their kind was untouchable! And although I was merely 6.5 years old, I knew that I had witnessed something significant and despite only seeing it then, I still carry the memory very vividly in my head as if it happened just yesterday!
@@BB-kt5eb Things haven't changed much after he died. The tables just turned. Now are other billionaire while some villages have no electricity and no roads. I find the ones who followed worse than him. They just milked the cow, never fed it.
@@ericcarlson3746 Elections don't work anymore, it devolved into a meaningless popularity contest, even if they lose, they still have more power, influence, and wealth than you.
It looks like a spontaneous uprising but in actuality his own government wanted him gone and they retained power once he was. It was also was helped along by both the KGB and CIA, so don’t let it give you a warm fuzzy feeling
fun fact, he is quoting the poetry: "Desteapta-te Romane!" - "Wake up Romanian!" which is to become the National Anthem of Romania after the Revolution. The song and poetry were banned by Ceausescu because, aside from the verses he is quoting here, they also speak about fighting against the "the barbarian Tyrant" who enslaved the Romanians. Ceausescu was too afraid he could be assimilated with the figure of a Tyrant depicted in the poetry. I would say quoting the poetry here was a bad move for him, showing that he probably wasn't aware of what people actually felt about him.
@@BennygoatHistory it means tyrant and there are quite a few. For example we learn in school about a guy named Alexandry Lăpușneanu. Basically he invited his enemies to a feast and butchered them game of thrones style using foreign mercenaries. Ended up poisoned by a priest while being sick cos priest thought he's off-center and capable to purge the church. He wanted to live, he asked God to live and promised he will give up the throne and become a monk. When he got better he threatened the church for making him monk and got poisoned by a priest
@@georgeyoutube7580 woah what a character, thanks for the story! history can be filled with such terrible crazy people that you think it would all be from a story book, I will look more into this Alexandru Lăpușneanu guy
One should think someone who knew damn well that he's seen as the tyrant he is would notice when people are about to kick his ass. Fortunately he was even too stupid to notice that.
I swear half of this speech was comprised of just 5 words: comrades, independence, freedom, sovereignity and socialism; and the other half looks like a reenactment of Adenoid Hynkel's first speech in "The Great Dictator".
The history of most dictators usually ends in blood and tears. In today's world, a country's internal security departments probably have constant headaches with information about plots to assassinate leaders or change regimes. As an example, I bet it goes on in the likes of North Korea all the time. Just takes one disgruntled individual, and what percentage of NKs are bored, depressed and pissed off knowing there must be more to life than what they have?
Iván Barbeitos I think Ceausescu was trying to recapture the “magic” of his 1968 speech, where he dared to criticize the Soviet Union for its invasion of Czechoslovakia. Essentially, the Soviets just decided to ignore that speech, while they went about their business. Ceausescu used that moment to become the darling of the West, as the Communist dictator who “dared” to speak up to the Soviets. But 1989 was not 1968, and all his years in power blinded Ceausescu to the reality he had created around him, building huge palaces, and warehousing much of the population of his country in massive apartment buildings which didn’t even have plumbing for toilets. When he traveled to France he was impressed with Versailles, and wanted to surpass it with that huge palace, but he apparently didn’t bother to learn that Versailles helped pave the way to the French Revolution, which cost Louis XIV’s descendant (Louis XVI) his throne, and then his life. But you are right: in his speech, Ceausescu just seemed to repeat the same old tired cliches and bromides over and over, as if by simply repeating them, he could persuade Romanians that their popular revolution would cost Romania her sovereignty. The problem was that by this point, the Romanians knew they weren’t revolting against some outside regime, but against the Ceausescu regime itself. His corruption, economic disasters, (lack of food, heat, and electricity) while he built his palaces, and brutality sealed his fate, and that of his wife.
The Soviets were still briefing against him and his use to the west had just ended. That sealed his fate. He is important because he reminds us that racism, xenophobia, suspicion, paranoia and state control is not just confined to fascism. It is, frankly, more evident on 'the left' - and an honest audit of racism in Marxist and socialist circles seems to challenge the reality that leftist distorians have vandalised our universities with. Socialism and fascism, are and estranged ugly sisters. The race politics of Romania's communist period was a maze of nonsense and coded messages. Contemporary western communists are again building the same delusions and playing the same game. We cannot allow these 'anti-racists' and anti-fascists' to get anywhere near power. I know people prefer to stick to cliches about socialism being the opposite of fascism - but this moron is yet more proof that the world is just a bit more complicated than that cliche allows.
Romanian here, thought I'd clarify things. What you see here is the core of party activists remaining in the square after the bulk of the crowd dispersed in part one. So obviously they chant FOR him. The recurring chant here seems to be "Vom munci și vom lupta, Țara o vom apăra!" (We will work and we will fight, the country we will defend!)
@Ruby Tuesday he got killed four days after this speech. In all over Romania, fights started. So yes, the people did a lot in 1989. Not only in Romania but in all former east block countries. GDR, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia
@@19iason19It seemed once the Berlin Wall came down, so did (most if not all) the governments in eastern Europe. It was a very exciting time, especially for my parents who fled Latvia after WW2.
@@19iason19 I'm from Poland. Communists in my country wee prepared. They started talks with West in 1980 (Jaruzelski and Rotschild). So, what we have now in Poland is replacement of Soviet Union with Soviet European Union. Same shit, different day.
@@DJSwezzleMusic yeah he would have outdone the state he admired the most, North Korea! You measure him on debt payoff and yet don’t mention how he acquired that debt and how he squeezed his serfs to get that great credit rating! Nice to know your priorities.
Reminds me of that episode of Gillian's island where Gilligan dreams that he's a dictator on a balcony giving a speech. He says to the crowd, "I promise you this, that and the other thing!" Then the crowd erupts into a cheer.
If you add the total amount of claps made by each person present in that crowd that's the total amount of how many times he also said independence sovereignty and integrity in his speech.
@@RobbStark_ Lenin and Ceausescu are different type of people. If Nicolae was just hearing some "good" news from his securitate general, Lenin himself talked with the crowd after the speeches, ate the same food, didn't have luxury goods (except the car).
Currently reading Yuval Noah Harari's Homo Deus (2017)... This book brings me here 😊 You? Algorithm? 😂 answer me! Alo alo alo alo alo (x 1,000 times) 😂
We were in a never ending economic catastrophe(only getting worse), high censorship, cult of personality, ultra-nationalism(and xenophobia), isolationism, repression(that was getting stronger day by day), very high corruption and nepotism. No matter how much money you were making you were still not allowed to buy a decent amount of food. Everything was rationed. Food rations(just like in a war), electricity rations(electricity was being deliberately stopped a few hours a day, but there were also power outages), many people lacked warm water( some who had were given only little time every week), natural gas rations(and the gas was sometimes of so little quality that you were not able to cook with it), fuel rations(even if you had a car it was difficult to find the fuel to use it, some restrictions on sundays, and the only car accesible to the common people was the old Dacia). You were not allowed to listen to music from the west or to see movies/news from there, if you were caught you would get jailed and probably tortured. Only one TV channel with two hours 8-10 p.m where you would see Ceau praised. The press was in a similar situation, praising Ceau. Education was shitty. Signs of decline everywhere: declining economy, life expectancy, education(especially higher education), aging industry etc. Pollution was extreme, working conditions were tough. Bad planning and economic structure(not going deep because you are probably not interested in economics). Abortion(in most cases) and contraception were forbidden, in 1980s women were heavily monitored(to not do abortion). He damaged Romanian culture by not allowing foreign inspiration and by promoting those who praised him and not allowing free speech. You had some people turning you to the security if you had spoken against the regime. The regime listened to your phone calls if you were suspected, and also phone calls were hardly obtained. The list goes on. Exits from the country were also forbidden. It was basically a concetration camp.
don't forget, this was communism. How did you not put that? Communism is the worst thing, without that a lot of these problems would never have arisen.
@@rajathapa87 Obviously. Many of this problems were because of national communism/stalinism/neo-stalinism with north korean characteristics. Instead of stating that it is communism(a thing which most people know), i talked about the absurdities under this regime.
It feels like Ceausecu was telling his people how they should do when the people have become slaves on their own land. He definitely saw a national unity in the following days, just not the kind he wanted.
He was right. After 1990 the foreigners stole the country and now the poverty rate is very high in Romania. A lot of emigrants trying to find a job outside the country. This is not independence.
Well, your prophecy may have been fulfilled on September 1, 2022 with the Presidential speech where he called anyone who didn't vote for him a "threat to the Republic". It was along the same lines as this speech.
@@Komotau4691 - Wow? You really don't understand anything about what Ceausescu and his socialists did to the Romanian people, you think free healthcare, it wasn't free.
3:47 "Better to die in battle, in full glory, than to once again be slaves upon our ancient ground!" -Insusi marele tovaras a alimentat dorinta romanilor pentru libertate si pentru a lupta in continuare pentru democratie si libertate chiar cu pretul vietii. -The great comrade himself fueled the Romanians' desire for freedom and to continue fighting for democracy and freedom even at the cost of their lives.
I have vivid memories of that day, of course later in the evening as relayed on the UK news. The look of bewilderment on the old dictators face as he tried to grapple with the mood of that hostile crowd (what were they chanting). Today I can see only the apparatchiks at the front were applauding, behind them a resentful mob of citizens who'd obviously had enough of the 'building socialism together' rhetoric as they struggled to make ends meet in the shadow of the dictators gleaming new palace. I remember soon after this bullets flying. He made a run for it in a helicopter. Romanian flags with the centres ripped out were waving. Securitate police shooting it out with army units who'd gone over to the people. The makeshift trial which they say was 4 days later but I thought it was 4 hrs, and ignominious execution live on TV in a deserted courtyard god knows where. I remember too, at some point, hundreds of miners, still black with dust, arriving in the capital to help put down the revolt (did that really happen?) but it was already over. No leader can withstand what happened at that speech, it is like watching water suddenly pouring out of an old reliable vessel as it cracks and falls to dust. The weird thing about communism is it proclaims revolution but is deeply conservative and paranoid about revolution. It's all top down, its revolution is more elimination; of everything that might oppose it, of everything that might give people some kind of meaning and footing in the world outside the ruling party.
That wasn't socialism. Starving the people to death while you and your family live in a huge palace... That's not a leftist government. I mean, he can claim shit, but that's not AT ALL what socialism is about. He was not a "socialist" dictator. If you really believe in what socialism stands for, you cannot be a dictator. He was a liar, a murderer, a thief, a psychopath and just one of the many dictators who covered their hunger for power, money and authority with an apparently leftist ideology. A dictator is always a paranoid because he lives in a prison he has built around the people, including himself.
@@rht785 They're booing him, they're all supposed to be chanting preassigned slogans by the Secretariat who hand out their placards and chants based on their occupation. This happened just after the Berlin Wall fell, the Velvet Revolution in Prague, Czekoslovakia, and an uprising in the Romanian city of Timisoara. So he's already nervous.
This could almost have been a Saturday Night Live comedy skit. The almost comical old dictator mouthing empty platitudes. In front of the obedient masses, who cheer on cue. Then suddenly in literally a matter of seconds, the mood changes. And they turn on him. It's straight out of Chaplain's "The Great Dictator". But with a grim reality behind it.
Dictators are those who create artificial wars and invade other countries to kill children, innocent families. Ceausescu did not do this and did not starve the population. Those who benefited from the 1989 coup also starved the population.
His true mistake was only increasing pensions by 100 Lei. The crowd of angry young revolutuionaries would definitely have gone home if he'd upped it by 200.
@Ruby Tuesday most of the chanting his name you hear is recorded from the front few rows who were basically captured by his regime and blackmailed to appear that they were showing support. And yes I believe he was captured and summarily executed the following day. He fled in a helicopter shortly after giving this speech due to the building being stormed by protestors.
Dated a Romanian woman in the late 90s and remembered this period in time, she recounted that after Ceausescu's execution the people broke into government warehouses that were stocked to the rafters with food and material goods, they were shocked that all this was in their country and yet not distributed. I've had the chance to go to a former Soviet Bloc country several times and have talked with the older generation about their life under communism and their life today and asked them which they thought was better. All agreed that national independence and economic prosperity ( or their legitimate chance to attain it ) has improved their quality of life but there was a hint of melancholy for the life that use to be, and for one older gentleman he'd rather go back in time. Simpler times perhaps. Time marches on.
Did he improvise that entire bit where he promised that they shall increase pensions and social support? Like, "Uh-oh, the crowd appears to be unruly. Better throw some money at the problem, that'll calm them down."
No. Even if it was a personal decision, to approve it it had to go through the party's Political‐Executive Committee. The time when rulers announce measures on Twitter out of the blue is much later than this. It was probably a "star measure" whose announcement he had prepared for the speech, but the moment of turmoil decided him to release it point blank. You have to keep in mind that the perception is different live and watching it on a video 35 years later, already knowing how it all ended. At that moment the shouting in the square was interpreted as a reaction to gunshots. Therefore Ceausescu did not understand that he had to "buy" the crowd so that they would not get nervous. It is true that an increase in salaries and pensions must be interpreted according to the wide political and geopolitical context of the moment: other governments in Eastern Europe were in difficulty or had fallen, and Romania had been running an austerity program for seven years that had limited the access to consumer goods. Offering money was a maneuver to regain support, not an improvised reaction.
Very Informative Video .. I now believe I can give speech about the Integrity and independence of a Country without giving information on how to built integrity and independence 😂😂😂
Leo Walzim of course. I understood. I have only written about this situation. He used this thing of increasing the salary to just hide the real situation let’s say. In the 70’ thing were of course completely different. How in Yugoslavia.
I love how 4 days later the people carrying out the show trial/execution talked about how the wife reeked horribly meanwhile the husband had decent hygiene. Her stink must have been really bad for people to describe it all these years later
The crowd shots here seem weirdly incongruous. Some show a boisterous crowd and others a completely placid one. I wonder if some earlier footage was spliced in to replace something that the censors didn't want to show? Maybe someone here has some information on that.
I feel very sorry for Romania that had to suffer such a devil who had been destroing romanian economy and people for nearly half of century just in the name of his own fame. Greetings from Poland!
Dictators/devils are those who create artificial wars and invade other countries to kill children, innocent families. Ceausescu did not do this and did not starve the population. Those who benefited from the 1989 coup also starved the population.
What happen was that a group of students entered the square shouting against the dictator . One police officer , to scare them off , threw a noise grenade ( not explosive but loud ) , the crowd got panicked as people were shouting '' they are going to shoot us all'' , so they started to run , but there where so,many, one could not move .And it was the beginning of the end..The dictator had a plan to make a stand in the Central Committee Building , where they had a lot of weapons and security troops , ( it is said , if so , it could have caused the death of 10 .000 people ) but in the end he was badly advised and flew with the helicopter in total panic with no planning ahead
The ones in the front were party apparatchiks who always attend this kind of rallies. It was supposed to be a support rally for the dictator as in those days there were protests in another part of Country who were stiffly repressed. You might not see it on camera but in the back there were people booing and shouting against him...it is better heard in the other video that contains first part of Ceausescu's speech at minute 2:40...when he keeps repeating "Alo, alo..." because he was seeing for the first time the commotion of the masses and heard booing for the first time instead of the ovations he was normally greeted with.
Some of them chant: Vom munci și vom lupta, țara o vom apăra! We will work and fight, we will defend the country! Other chants were: Ceaușescu P.C.R! (Ceaușescu P.C.R / R.C.P = Romanian Communist Party) Ceaușescu și poporul! Ceausescu and the people! Stima Noastră și Mândria, Ceaușescu România! Our Honor and Pride, Ceausescu Romania! (translation from OP) cheering,
Kinda felt bad for him when I knew what his childhood was like. No friends, lonely, rural, very poor, yet *sometimes* a genius. Usually, your childhood depicts your character as you grow old.
A lot like Putins latest speech. Everything is getting better, we will adapt, rations will be plentiful, money is coming, the other guys are trying to split this country up, here's a potato.
Every dictator is always talking about so called foreign influence , imperialist powers that are trying to subjugate their paradise of a country. And they never say specifically which foreign power, only they, them, others...and so on. It's same with every autocrat.
He tried to escape the next day, but his perception of both the situation and the timing were wrong, or misguided by the solipsist state of mind engineered by his flatterers. The problem for him was not on the square or in the crowd, nor did it start on December 22. The problem, although he did not know it, was inside the Central Committee building behind him, in the state and party machinery, and in the international scenario, and had been running against him for months.
would be useful to have the chants translated, ce serait bien des traductions des manifestants. just to know the tension..cant tell if they are for or against him. I assume some are for, some against. Mais Bavo deja!..Cool video.
1. There could not have been chants against him. And even if there would have been some, they would not have been transmitted. But there were none. 2. The chants were pre-arranged.
Aleksandar Vil thank you! I had read that’s what was being chanted, I was just curious if that is what was being chanted the whole time? Did he not know/care about what happened there, such that he wouldn’t recognize why it was being said?
No, at no time during the filming of the speech on December 21, the crowd refers to Timisoara. And it should be added that the common and politically correct interpretations of the events seen in this clip are just an epic legend. The sudden bout of excitement that interrupted the speech of the "Conducator" a few minutes after starting was not a massive booing, nor a sign of disaffection towards him, his promises or his regime, nor a proof that the people for the first time "looked him in the eyes with no fear". That is part of the epic legend created a posteriori, which tried to reconstruct those events as an anticipation of the regime's downfall. But, no matter how heroic and emotionally stimulating it may sound, it does not come closer to the truth. Like almost all the events of the so-called "Romanian revolution", that truth is much more prosaic. What interrupted Ceausescu was an uncontrolled reaction of terror and shouts by the audience, before some detonations coming from somewhere in the square, and yes, probably due to an attempt to sabotage the act organized by the dictatorship and spread panic. But it was not about boos, or about hailing Timisoara or the revolution. Those attending the event were taken on purpose as stage staff, many of them forcibly or under diverse threats, and their enthusiasm was visibly void, but this video is not "the gestation of a spontaneous revolution in the eyes of the dictator," because the events of December 21-25, as well as those immediately before and after, had little of spontaneous revolution. This rally and the reaction of the people was the symbol that the regime and its security mechanisms were losing control and began to have very deep cracks (although not enough for Ceausescu to speak in public without protection, instead of behind screens or bulletproof booths, like the Nicaraguan dictator Somoza), but not the symbol of the rebellion of the "oppressed people" in front of the tyrant. That is part of the fiction, fed by the same post-decembrist government, which would soon be responsible as many or more victims among that "people" than Ceausescu himself in his last days.
Am I correct that the people of Romania were unawere of where he lived? And I understood that his children had their own apartments in the villa? How did the get out of the house? In blinded window cars or? Thanks.
In this speech he was totaly right... we was the only country that paid our external debt of 21 billions dolars and was fully economical independent country.. But now our debt to fmi and eu its 110.8 billions€, we don't produce anything in our country anymoore, unenployment rate its 5.2% and 5.6 million romanians work in other countyes .... in concluzion after the revolution, Romania was destroyed...
I suspect he would have been remembered fondly if he left the stage about twenty years earlier because he was actually quite a good leader in the beginning. He like many other despots, forgot lifes golden rule and thats when to know, when to walk away.
Who can tell us: What was the croud chanting and shouting from around minute 7:42 ? It clearly feels they chant their own slogans, not answering to his speech, so I would like to know whether they already shouted "Down with Ceausescu" or something to that effect.
Some of them chant: *_Vom munci și vom lupta, țara o vom apăra!_* _We will work and fight, we will defend the country!_ Other chants were: *_Ceaușescu P.C.R!_* (Ceaușescu P.C.R / R.C.P = Romanian Communist Party) *_Ceaușescu și poporul!_* _Ceausescu and the people!_ *_Stima Noastră și Mândria, Ceaușescu România!_* _Our Honor and Pride, Ceausescu Romania!_
Some of them chant: Vom munci și vom lupta, țara o vom apăra! We will work and fight, we will defend the country! Other chants were: Ceaușescu P.C.R! (Ceaușescu P.C.R / R.C.P = Romanian Communist Party) Ceaușescu și poporul! Ceausescu and the people! Stima Noastră și Mândria, Ceaușescu România! Our Honor and Pride, Ceausescu Romania!
I remember Ceausescu always had a ferocious public speaking style (not so much here) and I always wondered what he was raving on about when I saw him speak since I don't understand Romanian. Once I saw the translation of this I had to wonder if all his speeches were as banal and pointless as this one despite the grandiose delivery? He spends ten minutes going on about absolutely nothing.
@@MasterSanders For sure. That makes this speech comical when you look at the translation and see that he is saying nothing of any substance whatsoever while acting all tough. It's almost as if it's an acted-out parody of a dictator.
I don't know about everyone else, but I can't tell what the crowd is doing beyond supporting him... there's not an obvious hint of what's to come from this copy of that speech. His speech is translated and provided in English subtitles, but the crowd chants are not. In part 1, there is a moment of disturbance and it's unclear what is happening.
Security forces removed the protesters booing him (the ones you hear at the beginning of part 1) from the scene, only the party core (which where FOR him) remained there. Additionally they brought workers from local companies and forced them to stand there holding signs and cheering for him or they would lose their jobs so the place suddenly looks like everybody loves him
Also a lot of not-very-subtle editing. They take parts of the speech and intercut shots of the crowd cheering. They might all be the same shot of the crowd cheering as far as I can tell.
First time I see this footage. I always thought only the part until the incident exists. Sad such people get killed. I would prefer we would had been able to keep them to study them.
After this speech he ran away, was caught and was executed 4 days later, still wearing the same clothes.
One of the most underrated moments of documented history, this.
both him and his wife were so dirty and ugly
@Nuren you hate people who tell the truth
Whole regime was so corrupt, death was too easy a punishment for the leaders, life in a shithole would be better
Agreed. I truly believe that detailed documentation of such events is discouraged by the current elite...
They would not want to give an armed population any ideas...
Marketoromagnolo What they looked like is irrelevant. It’s their tyranny, brutality, and the crimes against their own people that define them. And they seemed incredibly out of touch with this speech, deluding themselves that they could turn back the clock to 1968, and his speech criticizing the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Most of this speech was just a repetition, over and over, of the same tired slogans. As one Romanian put it, in a documentary, what good was a small rise in pay, when the stores are empty of food.
Obviously, the couple hadn’t been paying attention to events across the Soviet Union the previous few years (since Gorbachev came to power), and specifically during the previous few months, as Communist regimes toppled throughout Eastern Europe, and that dramatic night when the Berlin Wall came down. They should have known that the game was up then. But that’s what happens when one surrounds oneself with no one but sycophants and toadies.
Ceauşescu: "Better to die in battle, in full glory than to once again be slaves upon your ancient ground, and we must fight to live free and independent!"
Crowd: He's right. Let's rush the stage!
TIMISOARAAA!!!
@@BagasPrakoso19 Yobunnywrote 🙂
The crowd was dumbaf and didn't understand what he was talking about. Now we know and we wish he were alive. I personally apologize for what they did to him, he didn't deserve it. He was fighting for the freedom of our country 😕
@@familybusiness1224 Many, tho not all, people who are murdered, didn't deserve it, often, tho not always, those that killed them did deserve to die, and eventually they do anyway but, not soon enough 🙂
And now Romania is the slaves of European Union, only difference is that the Romanian state doesn't own the factories and land in which they work at but foreigners from European Union.
I.e. their largest bank and company in the country is owned by the French, their largest automotive company Dacia is owned by the French, their largest Petroleum company is owned by the Austrians.... Go down the list yourself and you will see what I'm talking about.
When you have to meet the word count for an essay
🤣 he had only 4 classes and then was a shoemaker apprentice.
Alo!
Sarcastically，the proverb he cited in 3:50 encouraged people to fight against him ，not the effect what he wanted--continue following his leadership
Ceausescu: "Better die in battle, in full glory, than once again be slaves upon our ancient ground"
Millions of Romanians: You know what? He's right! *executes Ceausescu*
He got overthrown a literally week after he went in front of people in a speech like this and announced that "Romania has paid off all its foreign debts to international scoundrels who enslaved almost every nation in the world. Romania now owes nothing to no one. Romania is finally free". And then they got him. :)
Lmao!
Acum suntem slcavi in vechiul nos pamant iarasi :(
@@artv.9989Comentariu infect de troll putinist jegos.
@@artv.9989 de ce? Ai alegeri democratice, poti sa protestezi, sa critici guvernul, poti sa spui ce vrei.
Dictator manual, page 56, paragraph 7: You must sprinkle "independence", "sovereignty", "the people", [country_name] or [ideology_name] every two sentences for a well rounded, satisfying speech.
Page 56... (I'm Hungariian.)
🤣👍
@@peterdr.horvath5685if you add an "R" to pague...
*them doing eternal injustice to us*
U.S.A. ?
I have very vivid memories of his death. I remember seeing people spitting at his picture and his and his wife's bodies lying in the streets after being executed all over the news. I couldn't believe that a ruler can have such a death! At that age, I truly believed that their kind was untouchable! And although I was merely 6.5 years old, I knew that I had witnessed something significant and despite only seeing it then, I still carry the memory very vividly in my head as if it happened just yesterday!
Disgraceful. May Ceausescu rest in peace.
What are the people chanting?
Kimilsungia
He was a monster who lived like a billionaire while his people starved.
@@BB-kt5eb Things haven't changed much after he died. The tables just turned. Now are other billionaire while some villages have no electricity and no roads. I find the ones who followed worse than him. They just milked the cow, never fed it.
Must have been deja vu when you heard about Gaddafi.
Did he mention anything about integrity and independance of Romania ?
nope, don't think he said it enough...
Favorite song of all autocrats
He mentioned unity though once ot twice
😂 he forgot also to mention the sovereignty of Romania
He mention but in vain ,fake news rules worldwide.
3:42 He quotes a verse from the actual hymn of Romania, which wasn't really permitted under his rule.
Words "integrity" and "independence": exist
Ceausescu: *I'll take your entire stock*
🤣 wait in the row 🤣
Sometimes I watch this to remind myself of the fact politicians aren't untouchable.
thats why there are..... elections. but not for this dude
@@ericcarlson3746
Elections don't work anymore, it devolved into a meaningless popularity contest, even if they lose, they still have more power, influence, and wealth than you.
Yeah, gives you that warm, fuzzy feeling inside, doesn't it?
It looks like a spontaneous uprising but in actuality his own government wanted him gone and they retained power once he was. It was also was helped along by both the KGB and CIA, so don’t let it give you a warm fuzzy feeling
Politicians are only humans and humans are not bulletproof. 😉
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think he might have mentioned Romania's sovereignty and independendence somewhere along the speech
fun fact, he is quoting the poetry: "Desteapta-te Romane!" - "Wake up Romanian!" which is to become the National Anthem of Romania after the Revolution. The song and poetry were banned by Ceausescu because, aside from the verses he is quoting here, they also speak about fighting against the "the barbarian Tyrant" who enslaved the Romanians. Ceausescu was too afraid he could be assimilated with the figure of a Tyrant depicted in the poetry. I would say quoting the poetry here was a bad move for him, showing that he probably wasn't aware of what people actually felt about him.
thanks for the information! could you elaborate on who "Tiran" is please?
@@BennygoatHistory it means tyrant and there are quite a few. For example we learn in school about a guy named Alexandry Lăpușneanu. Basically he invited his enemies to a feast and butchered them game of thrones style using foreign mercenaries. Ended up poisoned by a priest while being sick cos priest thought he's off-center and capable to purge the church. He wanted to live, he asked God to live and promised he will give up the throne and become a monk. When he got better he threatened the church for making him monk and got poisoned by a priest
@@georgeyoutube7580 woah what a character, thanks for the story! history can be filled with such terrible crazy people that you think it would all be from a story book, I will look more into this Alexandru Lăpușneanu guy
@@BennygoatHistory "tiran" = "tyrant"
One should think someone who knew damn well that he's seen as the tyrant he is would notice when people are about to kick his ass.
Fortunately he was even too stupid to notice that.
I swear half of this speech was comprised of just 5 words: comrades, independence, freedom, sovereignity and socialism; and the other half looks like a reenactment of Adenoid Hynkel's first speech in "The Great Dictator".
The history of most dictators usually ends in blood and tears. In today's world, a country's internal security departments probably have constant headaches with information about plots to assassinate leaders or change regimes. As an example, I bet it goes on in the likes of North Korea all the time. Just takes one disgruntled individual, and what percentage of NKs are bored, depressed and pissed off knowing there must be more to life than what they have?
Iván Barbeitos I think Ceausescu was trying to recapture the “magic” of his 1968 speech, where he dared to criticize the Soviet Union for its invasion of Czechoslovakia. Essentially, the Soviets just decided to ignore that speech, while they went about their business. Ceausescu used that moment to become the darling of the West, as the Communist dictator who “dared” to speak up to the Soviets.
But 1989 was not 1968, and all his years in power blinded Ceausescu to the reality he had created around him, building huge palaces, and warehousing much of the population of his country in massive apartment buildings which didn’t even have plumbing for toilets.
When he traveled to France he was impressed with Versailles, and wanted to surpass it with that huge palace, but he apparently didn’t bother to learn that Versailles helped pave the way to the French Revolution, which cost Louis XIV’s descendant (Louis XVI) his throne, and then his life.
But you are right: in his speech, Ceausescu just seemed to repeat the same old tired cliches and bromides over and over, as if by simply repeating them, he could persuade Romanians that their popular revolution would cost Romania her sovereignty. The problem was that by this point, the Romanians knew they weren’t revolting against some outside regime, but against the Ceausescu regime itself. His corruption, economic disasters, (lack of food, heat, and electricity) while he built his palaces, and brutality sealed his fate, and that of his wife.
The Soviets were still briefing against him and his use to the west had just ended. That sealed his fate.
He is important because he reminds us that racism, xenophobia, suspicion, paranoia and state control is not just confined to fascism. It is, frankly, more evident on 'the left' - and an honest audit of racism in Marxist and socialist circles seems to challenge the reality that leftist distorians have vandalised our universities with. Socialism and fascism, are and estranged ugly sisters.
The race politics of Romania's communist period was a maze of nonsense and coded messages. Contemporary western communists are again building the same delusions and playing the same game. We cannot allow these 'anti-racists' and anti-fascists' to get anywhere near power.
I know people prefer to stick to cliches about socialism being the opposite of fascism - but this moron is yet more proof that the world is just a bit more complicated than that cliche allows.
Nicolas Maduro has the same speech, exactly as you hear all this shit.... they are the same shit...
_"Demokratzi schtunk! Liberte schtunk! Frie sprachen schtunk!"_
Romania/Tomainia....coincidence?
The fact that he offered to raise pensions and salaries is almost like something a cartoon villain would do.
he was ...people were scared of a cartoon villain. Kinda like Biden
He almost regained control, but eventually went downhill.
Romanian here, thought I'd clarify things.
What you see here is the core of party activists remaining in the square after the bulk of the crowd dispersed in part one. So obviously they chant FOR him. The recurring chant here seems to be "Vom munci și vom lupta, Țara o vom apăra!" (We will work and we will fight, the country we will defend!)
Also, local workers were bused in and forced to hold signs and cheer for him under the threat of losing their jobs.
@Ruby Tuesday he got killed four days after this speech. In all over Romania, fights started. So yes, the people did a lot in 1989. Not only in Romania but in all former east block countries. GDR, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia
@@19iason19It seemed once the Berlin Wall came down, so did (most if not all) the governments in eastern Europe. It was a very exciting time, especially for my parents who fled Latvia after WW2.
Hmm it seems like a lot of "party activists" out there..to be just "party activists"..
@@19iason19 I'm from Poland. Communists in my country wee prepared. They started talks with West in 1980 (Jaruzelski and Rotschild). So, what we have now in Poland is replacement of Soviet Union with Soviet European Union. Same shit, different day.
Legend has it he was still saying "hallo" and she was still saying "silence" as they were executed
What a lame joke
And he got his wish.
After the shot, there was finally silence. At least from him.
What an awesome joke!
Love the part where he starts trying to buy them off.
More money doesn't mean much when there's no food in the shops to buy with that money.
Wait untill utopian UBI will be implemented world wide! Doesn't that sound great!
Free money for everyone!
With what was then practically Monopoly play money, and they knew it.
Actually Ceausescu managed to pay off the IMF loan by 1989. If Ceausescu would have still been in charge, he could have done great things.
@@DJSwezzleMusic yeah he would have outdone the state he admired the most, North Korea! You measure him on debt payoff and yet don’t mention how he acquired that debt and how he squeezed his serfs to get that great credit rating! Nice to know your priorities.
Saw the first part some time ago and just realized you uploaded the second recently lol great timing.
It was uploaded on his times after the first part, but deleted later by youtube complains (copyrights or political interests).
Reminds me of that episode of Gillian's island where Gilligan dreams that he's a dictator on a balcony giving a speech. He says to the crowd, "I promise you this, that and the other thing!" Then the crowd erupts into a cheer.
It seems almost exactly the same.
4 days later he and his wife next to him in this video were shot to death by a firing squad of the Romanian Army.
It was filmed too
Alls well that ends well.
GOOD!
My beloved country has been sold out by corrupt humans in the name of the "saint dollar".
I will never forgive them.
Romania ?
If you add the total amount of claps made by each person present in that crowd that's the total amount of how many times he also said independence sovereignty and integrity in his speech.
They were what he said. When the US and Britain installed a puppet regime, Romania went under colonization.
"…for the unity of all working people" ever notice how the people who often say those words aren't working people?
You are wrong
Most communists nowadays are upper middle class kids anyways, so yeah, it's kind of par for the course.
Yes, Marx and Lenin are good examples.
@@RobbStark_ Lenin and Ceausescu are different type of people. If Nicolae was just hearing some "good" news from his securitate general, Lenin himself talked with the crowd after the speeches, ate the same food, didn't have luxury goods (except the car).
@John S. and he lives in luxury like absolute monarchs, you can see the contents of his house which is full of luxury
Ceaucescu: Comrade revolutionaries…
People: You don’t know the half of it, Nicco.
Currently reading Yuval Noah Harari's Homo Deus (2017)... This book brings me here 😊 You? Algorithm? 😂 answer me! Alo alo alo alo alo (x 1,000 times) 😂
Richard Angelus this book brought me here too 🙋🏻♀️
@@KleineFrauOhneName just finished it. Chilling contents.
Same here😂
@@sajeenashrestha848 alo alo alo 😆
This book brought me here too :)
I swear this is me when I'm writing an assignment for class. Just throwing random words together that mean nothing.
Same
We were in a never ending economic catastrophe(only getting worse), high censorship, cult of personality, ultra-nationalism(and xenophobia), isolationism, repression(that was getting stronger day by day), very high corruption and nepotism. No matter how much money you were making you were still not allowed to buy a decent amount of food. Everything was rationed. Food rations(just like in a war), electricity rations(electricity was being deliberately stopped a few hours a day, but there were also power outages), many people lacked warm water( some who had were given only little time every week), natural gas rations(and the gas was sometimes of so little quality that you were not able to cook with it), fuel rations(even if you had a car it was difficult to find the fuel to use it, some restrictions on sundays, and the only car accesible to the common people was the old Dacia). You were not allowed to listen to music from the west or to see movies/news from there, if you were caught you would get jailed and probably tortured. Only one TV channel with two hours 8-10 p.m where you would see Ceau praised. The press was in a similar situation, praising Ceau. Education was shitty. Signs of decline everywhere: declining economy, life expectancy, education(especially higher education), aging industry etc. Pollution was extreme, working conditions were tough. Bad planning and economic structure(not going deep because you are probably not interested in economics). Abortion(in most cases) and contraception were forbidden, in 1980s women were heavily monitored(to not do abortion). He damaged Romanian culture by not allowing foreign inspiration and by promoting those who praised him and not allowing free speech. You had some people turning you to the security if you had spoken against the regime. The regime listened to your phone calls if you were suspected, and also phone calls were hardly obtained. The list goes on. Exits from the country were also forbidden. It was basically a concetration camp.
Not to mention the appalling conditions in the orphanages, with children starved and neglected in the most cruel manner.
@@marleyvonhoffstein3193 Indeed. The orphanages were really comparable to a concentration camp. Also with HIV infections and frequent beatings.
don't forget, this was communism. How did you not put that? Communism is the worst thing, without that a lot of these problems would never have arisen.
@@rajathapa87 Obviously. Many of this problems were because of national communism/stalinism/neo-stalinism with north korean characteristics. Instead of stating that it is communism(a thing which most people know), i talked about the absurdities under this regime.
@@wladislawstanislaw9254 Alright, sorry for having a go at you. i understand now!
But who came after Him? People who worked for Him for years, just like brutal as hi self. Not only one man to blame..
Now it is wors than then , because the coruption is at the highest level, and also Iliescu who killed Ceausescu, is doing great😂
Ceauşescu would have killed their families if they didn’t engage in the brutality.
@@johnjohny3484 He seems to be immortal
It feels like Ceausecu was telling his people how they should do when the people have become slaves on their own land. He definitely saw a national unity in the following days, just not the kind he wanted.
rm is nöw a fecal pöint öff euröpe... büt söme förce will build sehr vv
He was right. After 1990 the foreigners stole the country and now the poverty rate is very high in Romania. A lot of emigrants trying to find a job outside the country. This is not independence.
He sounds just like politicians in the US today.
God willing, they'll meet the same fate. Hopefully in 1080p this time.
Nowadays, it's 8K all the way
which politicians do you wish to see executed?
Yes! USA deserves a real government
Hopefully we can get David Duke into the white house at some point. He's the only man suited for the presidency.
Well, your prophecy may have been fulfilled on September 1, 2022 with the Presidential speech where he called anyone who didn't vote for him a "threat to the Republic". It was along the same lines as this speech.
Alright, alright, I get it!
"Indipendenchi" means independence in Romanian!
independent=independent
independenţi=independentzi=independent persons (plural)
independenţă=independentză (ă is schwa sound)= independence
hope this helps
You're ALL getting an extra 100 lei tomorrow so you'll all still be as equally poor as each other tomorrow.
In USA you can died if you have no money for doctor so this regime was still better in this way :D
@@Komotau4691 - Wow? You really don't understand anything about what Ceausescu and his socialists did to the Romanian people, you think free healthcare, it wasn't free.
Komotau4691 I would rather live in the US with freedom and democracy, than live under a communist regime like this.
Komotau4691 You must be absolutely kidding me
@@OUigot I dont think his regime was good but in all socialist block healthcare was free in my opinion.
3:47 "Better to die in battle, in full glory, than to once again be slaves upon our ancient ground!"
-Insusi marele tovaras a alimentat dorinta romanilor pentru libertate si pentru a lupta in continuare pentru democratie si libertate chiar cu pretul vietii.
-The great comrade himself fueled the Romanians' desire for freedom and to continue fighting for democracy and freedom even at the cost of their lives.
I have vivid memories of that day, of course later in the evening as relayed on the UK news. The look of bewilderment on the old dictators face as he tried to grapple with the mood of that hostile crowd (what were they chanting). Today I can see only the apparatchiks at the front were applauding, behind them a resentful mob of citizens who'd obviously had enough of the 'building socialism together' rhetoric as they struggled to make ends meet in the shadow of the dictators gleaming new palace. I remember soon after this bullets flying. He made a run for it in a helicopter. Romanian flags with the centres ripped out were waving. Securitate police shooting it out with army units who'd gone over to the people. The makeshift trial which they say was 4 days later but I thought it was 4 hrs, and ignominious execution live on TV in a deserted courtyard god knows where. I remember too, at some point, hundreds of miners, still black with dust, arriving in the capital to help put down the revolt (did that really happen?) but it was already over. No leader can withstand what happened at that speech, it is like watching water suddenly pouring out of an old reliable vessel as it cracks and falls to dust. The weird thing about communism is it proclaims revolution but is deeply conservative and paranoid about revolution. It's all top down, its revolution is more elimination; of everything that might oppose it, of everything that might give people some kind of meaning and footing in the world outside the ruling party.
Amazing retelling. Thank you.
That wasn't socialism. Starving the people to death while you and your family live in a huge palace... That's not a leftist government. I mean, he can claim shit, but that's not AT ALL what socialism is about. He was not a "socialist" dictator. If you really believe in what socialism stands for, you cannot be a dictator. He was a liar, a murderer, a thief, a psychopath and just one of the many dictators who covered their hunger for power, money and authority with an apparently leftist ideology. A dictator is always a paranoid because he lives in a prison he has built around the people, including himself.
what were the people chanting ?
@@rht785 They're booing him, they're all supposed to be chanting preassigned slogans by the Secretariat who hand out their placards and chants based on their occupation. This happened just after the Berlin Wall fell, the Velvet Revolution in Prague, Czekoslovakia, and an uprising in the Romanian city of Timisoara. So he's already nervous.
@@elenamartin6894 That IS socialism. In fact all the leaders of so called real socialism live that way, from Stalin to Tito, from Castro to the Kims.
This could almost have been a Saturday Night Live comedy skit. The almost comical old dictator mouthing empty platitudes. In front of the obedient masses, who cheer on cue. Then suddenly in literally a matter of seconds, the mood changes. And they turn on him. It's straight out of Chaplain's "The Great Dictator". But with a grim reality behind it.
delavalmilker those cheers were from speakers. Common trick of dictators or public speakers. Especially when unpopular
Sounds like any Bernie speech.
@@vincentmcnabb939 cringe take
@@vincentmcnabb939 based and true
Dictators are those who create artificial wars and invade other countries to kill children, innocent families. Ceausescu did not do this and did not starve the population. Those who benefited from the 1989 coup also starved the population.
A trip to China and Norrhkorea in 1971 he got inspire to have totally control.that of his own people in Romania.
His true mistake was only increasing pensions by 100 Lei. The crowd of angry young revolutuionaries would definitely have gone home if he'd upped it by 200.
😂😂😂
I think we all should agree that no yelling old man will help us with our freedom, independence and souvereignity. Good luck, Belarus
Mali bi rozmýšľať ako to vlastne bolo !!!
Every future political leader of every Western country should be required to watch this, and what occurred shortly afterwards.
Chaos unfolding under his eyes, and there he tries to pacify the common people with hollow promisses. How typical of tyrants.
One of the major highlights of the Eastern Bloc's Fall!
While his country was hungry and poor, he lived in unimaginable luxury.
I'm sorry, you have wrong informations.
@@01049scarlat he's right
@@achyutsingh5298 no
What a coincidence, so does Kim Jong-Un. 🇰🇵
He had at least 2 DOZEN mansions throughout Romania. Not including the huge one in the centre of Bucharest!
Brings my heart joy to watch a communist regime fall apart right in front of my eyes.
@Ruby Tuesday most of the chanting his name you hear is recorded from the front few rows who were basically captured by his regime and blackmailed to appear that they were showing support. And yes I believe he was captured and summarily executed the following day. He fled in a helicopter shortly after giving this speech due to the building being stormed by protestors.
Dated a Romanian woman in the late 90s and remembered this period in time, she recounted that after Ceausescu's execution the people broke into government warehouses that were stocked to the rafters with food and material goods, they were shocked that all this was in their country and yet not distributed.
I've had the chance to go to a former Soviet Bloc country several times and have talked with the older generation about their life under communism and their life today and asked them which they thought was better.
All agreed that national independence and economic prosperity ( or their legitimate chance to attain it ) has improved their quality of life but there was a hint of melancholy for the life that use to be, and for one older gentleman he'd rather go back in time.
Simpler times perhaps.
Time marches on.
În 89 pensia a fost de 800 ? wow în 2022 e la fel..
Did he improvise that entire bit where he promised that they shall increase pensions and social support? Like, "Uh-oh, the crowd appears to be unruly. Better throw some money at the problem, that'll calm them down."
Fucking narc looked reenergized after regained crowd control then he failed miserably
No. Even if it was a personal decision, to approve it it had to go through the party's Political‐Executive Committee. The time when rulers announce measures on Twitter out of the blue is much later than this. It was probably a "star measure" whose announcement he had prepared for the speech, but the moment of turmoil decided him to release it point blank. You have to keep in mind that the perception is different live and watching it on a video 35 years later, already knowing how it all ended. At that moment the shouting in the square was interpreted as a reaction to gunshots. Therefore Ceausescu did not understand that he had to "buy" the crowd so that they would not get nervous. It is true that an increase in salaries and pensions must be interpreted according to the wide political and geopolitical context of the moment: other governments in Eastern Europe were in difficulty or had fallen, and Romania had been running an austerity program for seven years that had limited the access to consumer goods. Offering money was a maneuver to regain support, not an improvised reaction.
I remember like it was yesterday. But now 30 years passed.
Go back and play fortnite jackass
@@Hardie_Boi no it sucks
Nice hat.
Astragan
Very Informative Video .. I now believe I can give speech about the Integrity and independence of a Country without giving information on how to built integrity and independence 😂😂😂
The Party was increasing the salary but what could they buy whit that money ?
A dollar,how many leis were back then?thx
its was almost nothing ..like 1 dollar to 1,5 dollars.
Death to all Marxist Communist!!
Leo Walzim I know that... but in the last 80’ I am sure that was a inflation
Leo Walzim of course. I understood. I have only written about this situation. He used this thing of increasing the salary to just hide the real situation let’s say. In the 70’ thing were of course completely different. How in Yugoslavia.
I love how 4 days later the people carrying out the show trial/execution talked about how the wife reeked horribly meanwhile the husband had decent hygiene. Her stink must have been really bad for people to describe it all these years later
I WILL GIVE YOU 200 AND A PIECE OF SALAMI !!!!!
Jajaja lol like
He's just repeating himself, protecting the independence and freedom of our country bla bla bla, from whom are you protecting it?
he meant to protect from the west
45 lost years for Romania, about half of them under him
The sound of audience is suspect...
The crowd shots here seem weirdly incongruous. Some show a boisterous crowd and others a completely placid one. I wonder if some earlier footage was spliced in to replace something that the censors didn't want to show? Maybe someone here has some information on that.
The good news here is that the Romanian people courageously freed their nation from a despotic cult of personality.
I feel very sorry for Romania that had to suffer such a devil who had been destroing romanian economy and people for nearly half of century just in the name of his own fame. Greetings from Poland!
Luca L Compared to 1989, it’s super rich. So..
przzol7071 Thank you!
Fuck poland .
Dictators/devils are those who create artificial wars and invade other countries to kill children, innocent families. Ceausescu did not do this and did not starve the population. Those who benefited from the 1989 coup also starved the population.
@@getbeget-_- 😂Ceausescu was a dictator no matter what definition you use. He starved the population and kept them in cold.
One day you're in charge of everything, the next day you're put up against a wall...
No one is a friend of "the Party."
Everyone is up for sale or sacrifice within Communism.
Well that took awhile
What happen was that a group of students entered the square shouting against the dictator . One police officer , to scare them off , threw a noise grenade ( not explosive but loud ) , the crowd got panicked as people were shouting '' they are going to shoot us all'' , so they started to run , but there where so,many, one could not move .And it was the beginning of the end..The dictator had a plan to make a stand in the Central Committee Building , where they had a lot of weapons and security troops , ( it is said , if so , it could have caused the death of 10 .000 people ) but in the end he was badly advised and flew with the helicopter in total panic with no planning ahead
do you know what the students were shouting when they were criticising the dictator?
I would like to ask Romania was good with him or now?
At least they didn't use teleprompters back in the day.
But then again. He only repeated the same thing over and over again.
he should've, the guy did school till like 4th grade and was using some pretty rural language, "independence" and "sovereign" aside
ceausescu's last stand in which he admits that he has already lost control.
He should've left 3 weeks earlier,taken 4 briefcases full of cash,and headed for Australia.
At the end he looked like a broken record
I'm confused with the crowd. Are they booing or cheering???
The ones in the front were party apparatchiks who always attend this kind of rallies. It was supposed to be a support rally for the dictator as in those days there were protests in another part of Country who were stiffly repressed. You might not see it on camera but in the back there were people booing and shouting against him...it is better heard in the other video that contains first part of Ceausescu's speech at minute 2:40...when he keeps repeating "Alo, alo..." because he was seeing for the first time the commotion of the masses and heard booing for the first time instead of the ovations he was normally greeted with.
Some of them chant: Vom munci și vom lupta, țara o vom apăra! We will work and fight, we will defend the country!
Other chants were: Ceaușescu P.C.R! (Ceaușescu P.C.R / R.C.P = Romanian Communist Party)
Ceaușescu și poporul! Ceausescu and the people!
Stima Noastră și Mândria, Ceaușescu România! Our Honor and Pride, Ceausescu Romania!
(translation from OP)
cheering,
Și unde sunt strigătele „Timișoara”?
Kinda felt bad for him when I knew what his childhood was like. No friends, lonely, rural, very poor, yet *sometimes* a genius. Usually, your childhood depicts your character as you grow old.
All dictators suffer from childhood traumas
A lot like Putins latest speech. Everything is getting better, we will adapt, rations will be plentiful, money is coming, the other guys are trying to split this country up, here's a potato.
About average Communist states' daily news reports ever
Every dictator is always talking about so called foreign influence , imperialist powers that are trying to subjugate their paradise of a country. And they never say specifically which foreign power, only they, them, others...and so on. It's same with every autocrat.
So what was the thing or moment when Ceausescu decided to escape? People on this video seemed to be on his side, mostly.
He tried to escape the next day, but his perception of both the situation and the timing were wrong, or misguided by the solipsist state of mind engineered by his flatterers. The problem for him was not on the square or in the crowd, nor did it start on December 22. The problem, although he did not know it, was inside the Central Committee building behind him, in the state and party machinery, and in the international scenario, and had been running against him for months.
Watch part 1. By the time of this video, Securitate already detained the protesters and carted in people to cheer for him.
would be useful to have the chants translated, ce serait bien des traductions des manifestants. just to know the tension..cant tell if they are for or against him. I assume some are for, some against. Mais Bavo deja!..Cool video.
1. There could not have been chants against him. And even if there would have been some, they would not have been transmitted. But there were none. 2. The chants were pre-arranged.
"Ceausescu, PCR " "Ceausescu, ROmania"
all chants are pro
The insulting 10% pay raise was probably that pushed it over the edge.
What are the crowd chanting?
@Enid C *"TIMISOARA !!!"* (reference to civilian massacre in Timisoara led by Secret Police *Securitate* , few days before speech)
Aleksandar Vil thank you! I had read that’s what was being chanted, I was just curious if that is what was being chanted the whole time? Did he not know/care about what happened there, such that he wouldn’t recognize why it was being said?
@Jeong Eun Ji NOPE, at first they were **threatened** by Securitate to cheer *HIM* , but fear from death soon dissapeared
No, at no time during the filming of the speech on December 21, the crowd refers to Timisoara. And it should be added that the common and politically correct interpretations of the events seen in this clip are just an epic legend. The sudden bout of excitement that interrupted the speech of the "Conducator" a few minutes after starting was not a massive booing, nor a sign of disaffection towards him, his promises or his regime, nor a proof that the people for the first time "looked him in the eyes with no fear". That is part of the epic legend created a posteriori, which tried to reconstruct those events as an anticipation of the regime's downfall. But, no matter how heroic and emotionally stimulating it may sound, it does not come closer to the truth. Like almost all the events of the so-called "Romanian revolution", that truth is much more prosaic. What interrupted Ceausescu was an uncontrolled reaction of terror and shouts by the audience, before some detonations coming from somewhere in the square, and yes, probably due to an attempt to sabotage the act organized by the dictatorship and spread panic. But it was not about boos, or about hailing Timisoara or the revolution. Those attending the event were taken on purpose as stage staff, many of them forcibly or under diverse threats, and their enthusiasm was visibly void, but this video is not "the gestation of a spontaneous revolution in the eyes of the dictator," because the events of December 21-25, as well as those immediately before and after, had little of spontaneous revolution. This rally and the reaction of the people was the symbol that the regime and its security mechanisms were losing control and began to have very deep cracks (although not enough for Ceausescu to speak in public without protection, instead of behind screens or bulletproof booths, like the Nicaraguan dictator Somoza), but not the symbol of the rebellion of the "oppressed people" in front of the tyrant. That is part of the fiction, fed by the same post-decembrist government, which would soon be responsible as many or more victims among that "people" than Ceausescu himself in his last days.
Enid C, They were chanting Ceaucescu Pacere - Ceaucescu Pacere.
Am I correct that the people of Romania were unawere of where he lived? And I understood that his children had their own apartments in the villa? How did the get out of the house? In blinded window cars or? Thanks.
Chriss311 .....underground tunnels
In this speech he was totaly right... we was the only country that paid our external debt of 21 billions dolars and was fully economical independent country..
But now our debt to fmi and eu its 110.8 billions€, we don't produce anything in our country anymoore, unenployment rate its 5.2% and 5.6 million romanians work in other countyes .... in concluzion after the revolution, Romania was destroyed...
People can eat today
I think they made extreme measures to “save” or should I say limit resources to pay said debts.
No one knew the dictator himself would be the first to talk about freedom and start a revolution….what a guy…
I suspect he would have been remembered fondly if he left the stage about twenty years earlier because he was actually quite a good leader in the beginning. He like many other despots, forgot lifes golden rule and thats when to know, when to walk away.
Kenny Rogers says : Know when to walk away, and know when to run.
Looks like he should have run, earlier.
One omnipresent communist in Eastern Europe, before his miserable demise precipitated by seismic shake up of global geopolitics.
Such a pity that Romania never asked King Michael to return and be king again
Those days?Miles Better Family President 🇸🇯🐺
31 yrs later and lukashenko is using the same nonsense about foreign enemies circling the country.
Why does echoed chanting from the crowd sound like a looped track?
Anyone else here whilst reading Homo Deus... there are other videos on youtube that include what Yuval is writing about. This one doesn't.
Thanks, man, this is the comment I needed!
what will happen in 21 Dec 2022 in Russia?
Whats the point givin the people bit more to live for, when the shops was emty? No food to buy...
Watching this and thinking about Lukashenko and Putin
Belarus is going in this direction at this very moment...
Belarus has arrived there a long time ago.
@@0x777 No revolution yet...
Is Lukashenko still in power? Why does he love non-Europeans so much over his own Race?
Who can tell us: What was the croud chanting and shouting from around minute 7:42 ? It clearly feels they chant their own slogans, not answering to his speech, so I would like to know whether they already shouted "Down with Ceausescu" or something to that effect.
Some of them chant: *_Vom munci și vom lupta, țara o vom apăra!_* _We will work and fight, we will defend the country!_
Other chants were: *_Ceaușescu P.C.R!_* (Ceaușescu P.C.R / R.C.P = Romanian Communist Party)
*_Ceaușescu și poporul!_* _Ceausescu and the people!_
*_Stima Noastră și Mândria, Ceaușescu România!_* _Our Honor and Pride, Ceausescu Romania!_
what are the public saying? its not translated
Ceausescu the party!
Ceausescu heroism Romania heroism!
Ceausescu PCR!
Some of them chant: Vom munci și vom lupta, țara o vom apăra! We will work and fight, we will defend the country!
Other chants were: Ceaușescu P.C.R! (Ceaușescu P.C.R / R.C.P = Romanian Communist Party)
Ceaușescu și poporul! Ceausescu and the people!
Stima Noastră și Mândria, Ceaușescu România! Our Honor and Pride, Ceausescu Romania!
It's so satidfying seeing the crowd not buy his bullshit anymore.
Revolutions rustle my jimmies
What are they chanting?
I remember Ceausescu always had a ferocious public speaking style (not so much here) and I always wondered what he was raving on about when I saw him speak since I don't understand Romanian. Once I saw the translation of this I had to wonder if all his speeches were as banal and pointless as this one despite the grandiose delivery? He spends ten minutes going on about absolutely nothing.
There’s a documentary that claims he borrowed from Hitler in his delivery. I could see that.
@@MasterSanders For sure. That makes this speech comical when you look at the translation and see that he is saying nothing of any substance whatsoever while acting all tough. It's almost as if it's an acted-out parody of a dictator.
He should've left 4 weeks earlier. An old man too stuck in his ways,too old to leave,yet this speech proves he & the wife knew they were in deep shit.
Dumnezeu să-l odihnească în pace!! Așa președinte nu o să mai aibe România!!!!!
lmao he was promising them the world ..
History repeat itself..
I don't know about everyone else, but I can't tell what the crowd is doing beyond supporting him... there's not an obvious hint of what's to come from this copy of that speech. His speech is translated and provided in English subtitles, but the crowd chants are not. In part 1, there is a moment of disturbance and it's unclear what is happening.
Security forces removed the protesters booing him (the ones you hear at the beginning of part 1) from the scene, only the party core (which where FOR him) remained there. Additionally they brought workers from local companies and forced them to stand there holding signs and cheering for him or they would lose their jobs so the place suddenly looks like everybody loves him
Also a lot of not-very-subtle editing. They take parts of the speech and intercut shots of the crowd cheering. They might all be the same shot of the crowd cheering as far as I can tell.
What does the crowd start chanting at key moments during the speech?
First time I see this footage. I always thought only the part until the incident exists. Sad such people get killed. I would prefer we would had been able to keep them to study them.
I was confused was the people cheering or booing him?