I was released from Securitate (KGB in Rumania) prison 13th Dec 1989 after kept prisoned for 18 months with no trial! I was accused for being spy with no evidence! After 35 yrs I still can't believe that I survived....
@ @ and you think it’s smarter to replace them with an insane person ? At least this “ criminals” that you and your parents elected them for over 30 years keep Romania in EU and NATO . Do you think we , the people who are against Georgescu elected PSD for 35 years ? No , it was you . Shooting yourselves in the foot electing the pro Russian people doesn’t solve the psd problem, it makes it ten time worse . You logic is beyond comprehension. It’s the same people who voted bad all their lives , went from FSN, PSDR, PSD ,and now AUR , POT and SOS . Intelligent people never elected those people .
@cepterus56 Romania has gotten a LOT better post-Ceausescu. Although some of them are probably still in power. I also recommend watching the 1990 Ted Koppel news report "The Death of a Dictator" about Ceausescu. It's on UA-cam.
@@VladVlad-ul1io ne spune să nu ajungem slugi la ruși, aia ne spune. Cu UE ești partener, nu ești sluga lor. Dacă tu sau ăla de mai sus sunteți in stare să fiți doar slugi, nu e vina UE.
In december '89, I was 18 y.o. I was on the street of my hometown, Bucharest. I remember that days. A good griend of mine was shot deadly by a guy whitout uniform, with a pistol. I will never forget that! ..after 35 years, I still remember what I live in that days. That friend died at 19 y.o. After all this years...I see comunists are still there, deep inside in some politicians! Look at this election from 2024! SHAME!!!! ... from Coronado/CA. USA. Claudiu Frantz Pârvulescu, former MCPON/ NSWC, OIF OEF OND veteran. God Bless everyone. God Bless Romanian people, Romanian Army Force! 🇷🇴🇺🇲🇺🇲🔱⚓🦈⚓🔱🇺🇲🇺🇲🇷🇴
Thank you for being there- a true hero. And condolences for your friend, we will never forget their sacrifice. I was only a child, but I am grateful to all of you, brave heroes
This is the first revolution that was, to contradict Gil-Scott Heron, televised. I found myself sobbing through the middle stretch of this last night. I recall watching CNN in 1989 on Christmas and how enormous a surprise the Romanian revolution was, but even more surprised in 2024 that the same footage provoked me to tears. It's absolutely gripping reportage from ITN crews who were very clearly in physical danger themselves, and they did such a heroic job capturing the courage of ordinary Romanians that week.
The "Tiananmen Massacre" on June 4, 1989 provided the Romanian dictator Ceausescu with a model for how to suppress opposition. However, the "Tiananmen experience" did not work well in Romania and Eastern Europe.
@MoMoIsInHell Romania was very isolated in December 1989, all the other communist regimes in Eastern Europa had already fallen and even Gorbatchev in the Soviet Union was against Ceaușescu. Even Moldova was more open than Romania at this point of time, also Yugoslavia, Hungary anyway. So Romania was surrounded and media and information spilled over into the country. At the same time Romania was in its deepest economic crisis ever since WWII. Even people within the nomenclatura didn't support the situation anymore, or their own children were trying to run away from the country.
@@ekesandras1481 very nice description, but what this has to do with the fact that Europeans aren't build to tolerate dictatorships whilst Chinese are tolerating it very well
Asbolutely fascinating! I love how authoratitive, factual and well-dressed all the reporters look and sound back then. Penny Marshall was - and still is - a class act.
And the new Romanian generation are ready to throw all that sacrifice away by voting Georgescu ,an insane person who wants to bring Romania back to those times . I was there , I did that and now I’m super mad at this new Romanian ignorance . This nation is cursed to repeat same mistakes , a leader in self destruction and electing freely against their best interests. It’s disturbing
I was a college student when this was happening, we thought the world would be boring soon because we were moving past authoritarian governments. I can't understand the appeal of this new breed of fear mongering populist would be autocrats. Saddens me to my bones.
you ignorant man, Calin Georgescu does not want to bring you back there, it wants to avoid war with russia, which is where you would go if is not the winner, your people, your young men will die in the front lines, your country will be just like ukraine if he is not elected, but you refuse to understand, eventually you will, once you will be forced drafted and taken from your house to the front lines... then you will say "Calin was kind of a better choice"
Pai asta e realitatea bai Gigi duru, disperarea a adus oamenii in starea asta, s-au saturat de tot furtul asta, nu aveam opțiuni. Mereu trebuie sa alegem raul mai mic
There isn't a good choice. Choose poverty brought by migration and policies like in the west or choose poverty from Russia. Both means decline and cancer
I was just a year old when the Romanian Revolution began in my hometown of Timișoara. Growing up, my parents made sure I understood the horrors of living under communism; reminding me daily of the nightmare it was. This is why I am deeply pro-Western and staunchly capitalist. It is a conviction I intend to pass on to my future children, ensuring that they, too, understand Romania’s path must never veer back toward the Russian sphere of influence. It is disheartening that less than 40 years after communism's fall, some Romanians have been misled into adopting anti-Western views. To me, this is a betrayal of the sacrifices made during the revolution and the progress we’ve fought so hard to achieve. We owe it to ourselves and future generations to stand firm against this regression. Either we are western, or we perish.
You're a very wise person. Funny how all the pro communist young ppl never want to move to Cuba, North Vietnam, China, Laos or North Korea. The far left has created nothing but chaos in the US. I despise them
Viitorilor tai copii? Poate sti ca acum in ,,libertate'' natalitatea este la cele mai scazute cote, iar rata divorturilor si numarul familiilor destramate sunt ridicate.
@ Asta nu înseamnă că ar trebui să susținem candidați anti-occidentali. Rata scăzută a natalității este o provocare pentru întreaga lume dezvoltată, nu doar pentru România. Chiar îți dorești ca România să revină la vremurile în care copiii abandonați ai lui Ceaușescu umpleau străzile? Eu, cu siguranță, nu. Astăzi, în sfera occidentală, România prosperă mai mult decât în orice alt moment al istoriei sale. Vorbim chiar o limbă occidentală, una cu rădăcini latine. Locul nostru este ferm în Occident, iar să ne întoarcem împotriva acestuia ar fi o trădare monstruoasă a națiunii noastre.
@@aurelianida4805 asa si? ce treaba are cu Ceausescu? Stii (apropo se scrie cu 2 de i) ca ciorile sunt negre si smoala la fel...ce legatura or avea una cu alta numai Dumnezeu stie. Te las pe tine sa te prinzi.
@@daciaromana2396 pro Western, capitalist, you must be an utter idiot saying that, like there was nothing else besides communism - capitalism BS, all invented at the West anyway.... especially you should learn what your parents apparently never taught you that communism was invented by those german j€ws and then transferred to Russian Empire to destroy Russia!
The saddest thing is that who took over was PSD, formal communists from the same regime, the King tried to return but he was kicked out because they knew if the legitimate leader would return, there would be no turning back...
Pentru că așa au nevoie în mintea lor sa ne separe de ei cei din vest, asa făceau și romanii cu popoarele cu care se luptau, e mai usor sa îți bați joc de alți oameni dacă ii descrii ca diferiți fata de tine.
Oh look, a Russian troll who coincidentally joined UA-cam at the moment when Ukraine was brutally invaded. Nice use of a "Western" name, to lend your propaganda an air of authenticity. @hazelwray4184
For somebody who wasn't heavily involved into the system at that time... It was quite hard if not impossible to learn English. I'm saying what I've heard from the old folks. So... It's nice to see young romanians "revolutionary" articulating more than decent English. ;)
I have seen lately ppl from Romania regretting the Ceausescu era,I missed the revolution left the country with my family in December 1984.R I P the victims of the revolution.
Yeah, some people regretted just few years after his death, elderly who were left with a poor pension and people in poverty. They had no freedom or western products, but there was free housing and free medical care, pensioners had annual thermal spa holidays etc. Now they have freedom, but access to housing it's a dream far away and they have all the products in the world, but not enough money. People's primary needs (housing) will always take precedent over secondary needs (freedom), hence why they long for communism. Or you can ask them why, this is the standard answer. You'll never hear anything about regret from someone who has a decent lifestyle, never. I always let a tear out looking at the bravery and determination of the youth of 1989 and will never stop being grateful for their sacrifice and courage
It depends on who are you talking to. While some regions in the country have greatly developed after the revolution, mainly Transilvania and Bucharest, others have been left severely depleted and with close-to-no hopes of improvements. Take for example the Jiu Valley and Southern Romania, whose mines and factories have been left to rot with no other job alternatives. It's quite nuanced.
@MoMoIsInHell LOL @ free housing. There was no free housing. You had to enroll and wait for months and years for even a small apartament, and it wasn't where you wanted to live with proper conditions, it was where the communist party wanted you to live. As for "free medical care" just an example: romanian women had zero access to medical services for abortions.
I randomly chose 1:11:15 and started laughing so hard at this piece of propaganda. nobody was shooting anyone for celebrating Christmas. Romanians were celebrating Christmas, now they're celebrating Xmas.
My father was 18 in 89 and he fhigt in Bucharest to protect the television bulding He stay outside for six day and sleep in trenches for me and for all Romanian to be free
What is very telling is that after a few initial reports ITN appears to have made a decision not to mention that the popular discontent and ultimate revolution was not just against Ceausescu but against communism. Romania was depicted as a Ceausescuan dictatorship that began in 1965 when he took the place of the preceding communist dictator Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej when he died. Things were no better from the beginning of the communist dictatorship in 1947, the repressions were no less severe, human rights violations and police terror were part and parcel of communist rule from when they manipulated the elections to take power in Romania. Concentration camps were built already the, tens of thousands were arrested and many executed. So, the Romanian revolution was foremost an anti communist revolution, in spite of ITN's efforts (BBC's also) to minimize that aspect.
Regardless of the former Eastern Bloc country, the soldiers of each country's army looked the same...as they did in 1945, which only shows the state of their economies.
Those are conscrips. One year forced army. They were never trained to do anything, I can guarantee you none of them ever fired lived amo prior to this. I can assure you the ones from the military police securitate were trained and equipped. They had snipers and were permanent paid soldiers, not conscrips. It's the same in Russia now. Look at their conscrips. It's not necessarily about being a poor country, Russia its not poor. They just added more pouches to their military and got them to pay for their own bullet vest, and that's the improvement. It's about the military style, Russia and their satelite states relied on cannon fodder soldiers. No need to pay for training or equipment if you're using them as cannon fodder
........and after 35 years, same PSD ( the ☭ comunist party , under new leters ) , are again in Government , despite the decision been made by Timișoara ' s heroes. Timișoara's Proclamation , was never allowed in Bucharest. That is why they delayed for decades, the 1989 Revolution Process of Investigation as to whom ordered , after 21st of December , the shooting . Many that lived those times, know that Iliescu ( that assumed the powers, by force ) ; hence casualties escalated from merely 450 , nationwide, to 1.166 deaths.
23:17 what about ALL other martyrs around the country?? We, my sister 13yo and I as a 14yo, marched on the streets of Resita for ALL romanians not for Timișoara and Bucharest only. My father, a ferocious anti-comunist fought against the regime and was part of rallying the movement in Reșița, had a friend shot in front of him 😢, a martyr How insulting to even say that!!
Thanks for sharing. I remember hearing this on Radio Bucharest on my shortwave radio in 1989 in Florida. That day, I declared my independence from all political parties
55:05 🤣🤣🤣 "subminarea economiei naționale" Ce mizerie! România nu avea nici o datorie în 1989, avea industrie și agricultură. Acum, în 2024, România este plină de datorii de miliarde de euro, a rămas fără industrie iar agricultura e vândută altora, străini. În 35 de ani a fost vândut aproape tot, cedate resursele naturale ale țării iar populația a migrat să muncească în occident muncile cele mai grele și plătite la salarii mult mai mici decât cele ale rezidenților, munci care occidentalii nu mai voiau să le facă. România a fost spoliată după "revolutie"! Revoluție care a fost lovitură de stat dată cu concursul forțelor din vest cât și din est.
Nu avea industrie. Industria era la pamant. Falimentara. Toti banii s-au dus spre plata datoriei externe si nu s-a mai investit nimic in industrie. Fabricile era u cu tehnologie din anii '60 si nu mai produceau nimic de calitate. In agricultura,a cuma se produce de trei ori mai mult decat pe vremea aia chiar si cu cifrele umflate de atunci. Vorbesti si tu din auzite
Industria produce cu cel putin 75% mai mult decat in anii 80. Agricultura vanduta? Suntem printre cei mai mari exportatori din UE. Stii economie cum stiu eu balet.
@Cornelbananau pey, văd că nu înțelegi ceea ce citești! Marea agricultură nu mai aparține românilor!!!!! Industria cui?! Fabricile și uzinele ROMÂNEȘTI, s-au vândut la fier vechi!
O mascaradă că doar la noi se putea întâmpla, ne-am omorât între noi,,civili cu arme care trăgeau în alți civil crezîndui teroriști și pe care nu ia interogat nimeni,este un filmuleț cu unul care are o banderolă roșie pe frunte ca Rambo trage gagiul ca in codru nici el nu știe în cine trage sau în cine a tras dar era revolutionar,o mizerie de "revoluție "care a luat suflete nevinovate și o nație însetată de sîngele propriu,75% din populația de la țară în 2024 au rămas blocați în 89 adică ușor de influențat și ușor de manipulat
I have to smile about the WW2 Dutch infantry helmets the Romanian soldiers were still wearing at that time. It was the only country that adopted that helmet apart from The Netherlands before 1940.
DEAR BBC news 1989 I was interviewed by 3 reporter in camping cotsuniac in former Yugoslavia , how I can't get the tape to show my grad children and my son he was only 1 year and 2 month ,
Sadly, my romanian people didnt learned almost anything in all these years. Mainly `cause our education system doesnt`t want to change, still forming ppl in comunist mentality.
Remember this, Reverend Laszlo Tokes, was the Ethnic Hungarian in Transylvania, who organised the protest and the Rebellion against Ceaușescu and his Regime.
What’s funnier to me is that more Romanians back then spoke english than they do now 😂, a country so anti-west/east, so isolated, yet everyone and their grandmas knew a word or 2 of english
You're pretty misinformed then. People were allowed to learn a second international language of their choice. Surprisingly, not that many chose Russian , but French, German and English. And also, we have more English speakers in average than probably any other eastern European country right now as allot of us were raised with no dubs no subtitles Cartoon Network and stuff after the Revolution.
@@RomaniaOverpowered Hmmm, poate? Stiu ca nu am mai trait in Romania de 15 ani, dar am facut 4 ani de scoala in Romania si imi aduc aminte ca nu multe lume era... inebunita cu engleza, poate lucrurile s-au schimbat acum, nu am mai vizitat tara de 6 ani, aproape 7.
I like how 50% of this video is only about the fortunate one's that didn't live in Romania at the time, and 25% is about people that were put in chair by the regime (press dir.). You could do better.
I was in Yugoslavia in Belgrade demonstrated in front the Romania embassy , the all emigrant screaming and cry I hold my son in my arms he was 1 and 3 month inside the boxes say down ceausescu free Romania all the camera in front of us take picture of my son and his father ,the next day we are front Paige in the news all over Europe news , I wish I tell some reporter how I crose the river Danube with one little baby ,in 23 march 1989 and how much I suffer my god how much I suffer
to you it might sound outrageous but if you would like to hit the right kind of audience you would make the effforts to translate the lines to romanian, as those events happened in romania not in the united kingdom. All these english floating all around doesn't help the people who, in theory, you would like to understand what all the people are saying. it's a very wonderful feeling to wake up in the morning living in your bubble of safe haven but it would be trully helpful for YOURSELF to wake up and check reality for a change, that is if the ignorance in which you are living is too much to bear or if you want to form human bonds with other people from ROMANIA. NOW it is your responsiblity to fight for those european rights you are so much talking nowadays. may mercy find those who are righteous
After 35 years .. we have hungarians in the state supreme council of defense ✌🏻 am invins !! They started with Lazlo Tokes, they finish with Tanczos Barna :)) am inviiiins!!!
Cheers ITN. And post mortem thanks to the greatest Queen of all. Those moments were one of the best of my life even I was only 12.Imagine the meaning of those moments for older generations
Those days I remember, it was snowy X-mas and i watched this revolution from TV. Student during those days. I was in Bucarest 1997, I visited Caicescu"s palace and so on. Care de Nord was horribele place, full of criminals.
what did you find in shops, supermarkets, pharmacies in the last 80's? Such as disposable diapers for babies (Pampers or other brands of diapers), cosmetic products, soaps, perfumes. I ask for this information because I do not know how they used diapers on babies before the fall of the regime.
what did you find in shops, supermarkets, pharmacies in the last 80's? Such as disposable diapers for babies (Pampers or other brands of diapers), cosmetic products, soaps, perfumes. I ask for this information because I do not know how they used diapers on babies before the fall of the regime.
I wish I was a different nationality. Always grateful to Australia for giving me a new citizenship Art. 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "Everyone has the right to life" was the President not human? About his wife? why did she have to die?
@@Kuberniccus Por no hablar de las ultimas elecciones rumanas que como no votaron "bien" las anularon, y la deuda esta casi al 50 partiendo de 0 con Ciaucescu
Malo? Lo que has dicho es una ilusión. A nosotros, los rumanos, nos va mejor ahora que en cualquier otro momento de nuestra historia. Rumania se ha convertido en una fuerte economía en la región y está lidera la región de los Balcanes. Ciertamente somos más ricos que cualquier país de Sudamérica y estamos alcanzando a España.
@@UlpianHeritor Jajaja...si hombre si, os va tan bien que sólo entre 2011 y 2021 Rumanía perdió 1,1 millones de habitantes, un 5,7% de su población, desde que salieron del comunismo en 1989, han emigrado el 38% rumanos, y casi todas las regiones rumanas, búlgaras y la mitad de las húngaras están de lleno en “trampas de desarrollo”, esta transición a un capitalismo “perverso”, que “genera riqueza pero no bienesta r”, provocó un “terrible declive” en “todo el este, tanto rural como urbano”, marcado por un éxodo juvenil masivo desde 1989, que hizo que en los 30 años siguientes Rumanía perdiera un 79% del PIB nacional. No se de que riqueza me hablas ya que más de una cuarta parte de los jóvenes rumanos vive en riesgo de pobreza y exclusión, según Eurostat, tampoco te creas que estais muy lejos de paises suramericanos ya que el riesgo de pobreza en Rumanía se cerró en 2023 con un 21,1% de sus habitantes en riesgo de pobreza, superior por ejemplo a Chile y a poca distancia de Brasil En cuanto lo de alcanzar a España, lo que se esta alcanzando es a llenar España de mafias de explotacion sexual de mujeres rumanas y los calabozos de delincuentes de origen rumano, ya que segun datos del ministerio del interior uno de cada diez rumanos que viven en España tiene antecedentes policiales. vamos un exitazo
Fascinating how the thumbnail for this video is an image of a guy who looks anything but a typical romanian. Yeah, I know, I must be paranoid, conspiracy theorist and all the other cancel culture buzz words. Don't bother !
I was released from Securitate (KGB in Rumania) prison 13th Dec 1989 after kept prisoned for 18 months with no trial! I was accused for being spy with no evidence! After 35 yrs I still can't believe that I survived....
@bro5800 You are still a spy. I see you trolling all over. YANKEE GO HOME......
Din ce țara iești ?
@@CobraNeagră-h3f Iran
Bulgaria sau Ukraina , wild guess
@@CobraNeagră-h3f nu stie. Nu e român.
As a 28 year old romanian , I hear some info from this documentary for the first time.Why arent we taught this in school or media?
The Internet has much to give than what your Schools or your Local Media has.
And you are still going to vote Georgescu because you look but don’t understand anything
Because the same criminals are still in power !
@ @ and you think it’s smarter to replace them with an insane person ? At least this “ criminals” that you and your parents elected them for over 30 years keep Romania in EU and NATO . Do you think we , the people who are against Georgescu elected PSD for 35 years ? No , it was you . Shooting yourselves in the foot electing the pro Russian people doesn’t solve the psd problem, it makes it ten time worse . You logic is beyond comprehension. It’s the same people who voted bad all their lives , went from FSN, PSDR, PSD ,and now AUR , POT and SOS . Intelligent people never elected those people .
@cepterus56 Romania has gotten a LOT better post-Ceausescu. Although some of them are probably still in power.
I also recommend watching the 1990 Ted Koppel news report "The Death of a Dictator" about Ceausescu. It's on UA-cam.
Romanians today should watch this before they choose their president..
Adică ce vrei sa spui bă?
L-au ales pe țiganul jidan Ion Iy
@@DragosMihaiMazilu ca e vrea presedinta gay pro islam si sluga a UE
@@VladVlad-ul1ioor worse, Putins errand boy
@@VladVlad-ul1io ne spune să nu ajungem slugi la ruși, aia ne spune. Cu UE ești partener, nu ești sluga lor. Dacă tu sau ăla de mai sus sunteți in stare să fiți doar slugi, nu e vina UE.
In december '89, I was 18 y.o.
I was on the street of my hometown, Bucharest.
I remember that days.
A good griend of mine was shot deadly by a guy whitout uniform, with a pistol.
I will never forget that!
..after 35 years, I still remember what I live in that days.
That friend died at 19 y.o.
After all this years...I see comunists are still there, deep inside in some politicians!
Look at this election from 2024!
SHAME!!!!
... from Coronado/CA.
USA.
Claudiu Frantz Pârvulescu, former MCPON/ NSWC, OIF OEF OND veteran.
God Bless everyone.
God Bless Romanian people, Romanian Army Force!
🇷🇴🇺🇲🇺🇲🔱⚓🦈⚓🔱🇺🇲🇺🇲🇷🇴
Don't bring the US flag into this. The Americans are NOT our friends.
No worries Caludiu, Le reparăm.
Thank you for being there- a true hero. And condolences for your friend, we will never forget their sacrifice.
I was only a child, but I am grateful to all of you, brave heroes
This is the first revolution that was, to contradict Gil-Scott Heron, televised.
I found myself sobbing through the middle stretch of this last night. I recall watching CNN in 1989 on Christmas and how enormous a surprise the Romanian revolution was, but even more surprised in 2024 that the same footage provoked me to tears. It's absolutely gripping reportage from ITN crews who were very clearly in physical danger themselves, and they did such a heroic job capturing the courage of ordinary Romanians that week.
The singer Gil scott heron? Strange connection, would have never imagined it.
The "Tiananmen Massacre" on June 4, 1989 provided the Romanian dictator Ceausescu with a model for how to suppress opposition. However, the "Tiananmen experience" did not work well in Romania and Eastern Europe.
not really the massacre was conducted by western powers .
No. Europeans never do well with dictatorships. We aren't build for that
@MoMoIsInHell Romania was very isolated in December 1989, all the other communist regimes in Eastern Europa had already fallen and even Gorbatchev in the Soviet Union was against Ceaușescu. Even Moldova was more open than Romania at this point of time, also Yugoslavia, Hungary anyway. So Romania was surrounded and media and information spilled over into the country. At the same time Romania was in its deepest economic crisis ever since WWII. Even people within the nomenclatura didn't support the situation anymore, or their own children were trying to run away from the country.
@@ekesandras1481 very nice description, but what this has to do with the fact that Europeans aren't build to tolerate dictatorships whilst Chinese are tolerating it very well
@MoMoIsInHellwhat are you talking about Europe has turned into an absolute dump under left wing dictators
Asbolutely fascinating! I love how authoratitive, factual and well-dressed all the reporters look and sound back then. Penny Marshall was - and still is - a class act.
Just liers
And the new Romanian generation are ready to throw all that sacrifice away by voting Georgescu ,an insane person who wants to bring Romania back to those times . I was there , I did that and now I’m super mad at this new Romanian ignorance . This nation is cursed to repeat same mistakes , a leader in self destruction and electing freely against their best interests. It’s disturbing
I was a college student when this was happening, we thought the world would be boring soon because we were moving past authoritarian governments. I can't understand the appeal of this new breed of fear mongering populist would be autocrats. Saddens me to my bones.
you ignorant man, Calin Georgescu does not want to bring you back there, it wants to avoid war with russia, which is where you would go if is not the winner, your people, your young men will die in the front lines, your country will be just like ukraine if he is not elected, but you refuse to understand, eventually you will, once you will be forced drafted and taken from your house to the front lines... then you will say "Calin was kind of a better choice"
Thats what democracy is, people have coice, he might be insane for but not to me.
Pai asta e realitatea bai Gigi duru, disperarea a adus oamenii in starea asta, s-au saturat de tot furtul asta, nu aveam opțiuni. Mereu trebuie sa alegem raul mai mic
There isn't a good choice. Choose poverty brought by migration and policies like in the west or choose poverty from Russia.
Both means decline and cancer
I was just a year old when the Romanian Revolution began in my hometown of Timișoara. Growing up, my parents made sure I understood the horrors of living under communism; reminding me daily of the nightmare it was. This is why I am deeply pro-Western and staunchly capitalist. It is a conviction I intend to pass on to my future children, ensuring that they, too, understand Romania’s path must never veer back toward the Russian sphere of influence.
It is disheartening that less than 40 years after communism's fall, some Romanians have been misled into adopting anti-Western views. To me, this is a betrayal of the sacrifices made during the revolution and the progress we’ve fought so hard to achieve. We owe it to ourselves and future generations to stand firm against this regression. Either we are western, or we perish.
You're a very wise person. Funny how all the pro communist young ppl never want to move to Cuba, North Vietnam,
China, Laos or North Korea.
The far left has created nothing but chaos in the US. I despise them
Viitorilor tai copii? Poate sti ca acum in ,,libertate'' natalitatea este la cele mai scazute cote, iar rata divorturilor si numarul familiilor destramate sunt ridicate.
@ Asta nu înseamnă că ar trebui să susținem candidați anti-occidentali. Rata scăzută a natalității este o provocare pentru întreaga lume dezvoltată, nu doar pentru România. Chiar îți dorești ca România să revină la vremurile în care copiii abandonați ai lui Ceaușescu umpleau străzile? Eu, cu siguranță, nu.
Astăzi, în sfera occidentală, România prosperă mai mult decât în orice alt moment al istoriei sale. Vorbim chiar o limbă occidentală, una cu rădăcini latine. Locul nostru este ferm în Occident, iar să ne întoarcem împotriva acestuia ar fi o trădare monstruoasă a națiunii noastre.
@@aurelianida4805 asa si? ce treaba are cu Ceausescu? Stii (apropo se scrie cu 2 de i) ca ciorile sunt negre si smoala la fel...ce legatura or avea una cu alta numai Dumnezeu stie. Te las pe tine sa te prinzi.
@@daciaromana2396 pro Western, capitalist, you must be an utter idiot saying that, like there was nothing else besides communism - capitalism BS, all invented at the West anyway.... especially you should learn what your parents apparently never taught you that communism was invented by those german j€ws and then transferred to Russian Empire to destroy Russia!
The saddest thing is that who took over was PSD, formal communists from the same regime,
the King tried to return but he was kicked out because they knew if the legitimate leader would return,
there would be no turning back...
it is a shame they didn't let the king in
From all the ethnic Romanians you choose exactly one non ethnic Romanian soldier as the thumbnail. Why would you do that?
National erasure propaganda, they aren’t even pretending to hide it anymore if you pay a little attention. Happening all over our continent
Pentru că așa au nevoie în mintea lor sa ne separe de ei cei din vest, asa făceau și romanii cu popoarele cu care se luptau, e mai usor sa îți bați joc de alți oameni dacă ii descrii ca diferiți fata de tine.
Multiculturalism is our new religion here in the West.
Great documentary
TinkerTaylorSoldierSpiece 🎼
FAKE, totul si nimic nu este adevarat cum se arata lucrurile... ADEVARUL se stie astazi... VERSIUNEA asta nu mai este valabila... AM DOVEZILE azi...
Literally just starting thinking about my heritage and ended up here so much history I never even knew about
Russians should watch and learn
Delusional
ce sa invete maimutoiule? sa-si predea tara cu resursele ei mari Occidentului hulpav, unde si fericirea si liberatea sun iluzorii?.
Oh look, a Russian troll who coincidentally joined UA-cam at the moment when Ukraine was brutally invaded. Nice use of a "Western" name, to lend your propaganda an air of authenticity. @hazelwray4184
Yess
The UK should watch and learn
For somebody who wasn't heavily involved into the system at that time... It was quite hard if not impossible to learn English. I'm saying what I've heard from the old folks. So... It's nice to see young romanians "revolutionary" articulating more than decent English. ;)
I have seen lately ppl from Romania regretting the Ceausescu era,I missed the revolution left the country with my family in December 1984.R I P the victims of the revolution.
Yeah, some people regretted just few years after his death, elderly who were left with a poor pension and people in poverty.
They had no freedom or western products, but there was free housing and free medical care, pensioners had annual thermal spa holidays etc.
Now they have freedom, but access to housing it's a dream far away and they have all the products in the world, but not enough money.
People's primary needs (housing) will always take precedent over secondary needs (freedom), hence why they long for communism. Or you can ask them why, this is the standard answer.
You'll never hear anything about regret from someone who has a decent lifestyle, never.
I always let a tear out looking at the bravery and determination of the youth of 1989 and will never stop being grateful for their sacrifice and courage
It depends on who are you talking to. While some regions in the country have greatly developed after the revolution, mainly Transilvania and Bucharest, others have been left severely depleted and with close-to-no hopes of improvements.
Take for example the Jiu Valley and Southern Romania, whose mines and factories have been left to rot with no other job alternatives.
It's quite nuanced.
@MoMoIsInHell LOL @ free housing. There was no free housing. You had to enroll and wait for months and years for even a small apartament, and it wasn't where you wanted to live with proper conditions, it was where the communist party wanted you to live.
As for "free medical care" just an example: romanian women had zero access to medical services for abortions.
Actually they regret state protectionism. They regret public services, they regret access to healthcare, free education, public transportation.
I randomly chose 1:11:15 and started laughing so hard at this piece of propaganda.
nobody was shooting anyone for celebrating Christmas. Romanians were celebrating Christmas, now they're celebrating Xmas.
Thanks!
My father was 18 in 89 and he fhigt in Bucharest to protect the television bulding
He stay outside for six day and sleep in trenches for me and for all Romanian to be free
Wow imagine how many ads twitter and company wouldve sold on click baits back in the day ...
What is very telling is that after a few initial reports ITN appears to have made a decision not to mention that the popular discontent and ultimate revolution was not just against Ceausescu but against communism. Romania was depicted as a Ceausescuan dictatorship that began in 1965 when he took the place of the preceding communist dictator Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej when he died. Things were no better from the beginning of the communist dictatorship in 1947, the repressions were no less severe, human rights violations and police terror were part and parcel of communist rule from when they manipulated the elections to take power in Romania. Concentration camps were built already the, tens of thousands were arrested and many executed. So, the Romanian revolution was foremost an anti communist revolution, in spite of ITN's efforts (BBC's also) to minimize that aspect.
They mention the uprisings being anti-communist during the first interview with the Free Romania newspaper company.
Great documentary, thank you!
Regardless of the former Eastern Bloc country, the soldiers of each country's army looked the same...as they did in 1945, which only shows the state of their economies.
Those are conscrips. One year forced army. They were never trained to do anything, I can guarantee you none of them ever fired lived amo prior to this.
I can assure you the ones from the military police securitate were trained and equipped. They had snipers and were permanent paid soldiers, not conscrips.
It's the same in Russia now. Look at their conscrips. It's not necessarily about being a poor country, Russia its not poor. They just added more pouches to their military and got them to pay for their own bullet vest, and that's the improvement.
It's about the military style, Russia and their satelite states relied on cannon fodder soldiers. No need to pay for training or equipment if you're using them as cannon fodder
Very interesting. Great mix of videos. I was 17 then and in Romania. I relived those moments very vividly now. Thank you very much!
It's amazing how one leader can make the world understand what the Soviet union does for the world.
The Soviet Union is no more, for your information.
28:33 Corneliu Manescu ? He's name was Sergiu Nicolaescu , learn history the right way
Love you my Romanian people.
........and after 35 years, same PSD ( the ☭ comunist party , under new leters ) , are again in Government , despite the decision been made by Timișoara ' s heroes. Timișoara's Proclamation , was never allowed in Bucharest. That is why they delayed for decades, the 1989 Revolution Process of Investigation as to whom ordered , after 21st of December , the shooting . Many that lived those times, know that Iliescu ( that assumed the powers, by force ) ; hence casualties escalated from merely 450 , nationwide, to 1.166 deaths.
23:17 what about ALL other martyrs around the country??
We, my sister 13yo and I as a 14yo, marched on the streets of Resita for ALL romanians not for Timișoara and Bucharest only. My father, a ferocious anti-comunist fought against the regime and was part of rallying the movement in Reșița, had a friend shot in front of him 😢, a martyr
How insulting to even say that!!
It was Yugoslav TV that was 1st in Romania during the revolution, not ITN.
I think they mean the first Western news crew
Hello this is Latonya new subscriber to your Channel keep bringing more news like this on your Channel
The whole world need to watch this and take note of the power that the people possessed. They just need to unite! Unite ,Unite.
That's the word!
Unfortunately we were left on the hands of Iliescu.
Thanks for sharing. I remember hearing this on Radio Bucharest on my shortwave radio in 1989 in Florida. That day, I declared my independence from all political parties
I was 7,I still remember the tracers in the night, the panic and the atmosphere.
Even as a child, blood was boiling.
Libertatea❤!
55:05 🤣🤣🤣 "subminarea economiei naționale"
Ce mizerie! România nu avea nici o datorie în 1989, avea industrie și agricultură.
Acum, în 2024, România este plină de datorii de miliarde de euro, a rămas fără industrie iar agricultura e vândută altora, străini.
În 35 de ani a fost vândut aproape tot, cedate resursele naturale ale țării iar populația a migrat să muncească în occident muncile cele mai grele și plătite la salarii mult mai mici decât cele ale rezidenților, munci care occidentalii nu mai voiau să le facă.
România a fost spoliată după "revolutie"! Revoluție care a fost lovitură de stat dată cu concursul forțelor din vest cât și din est.
Nu avea industrie. Industria era la pamant. Falimentara. Toti banii s-au dus spre plata datoriei externe si nu s-a mai investit nimic in industrie. Fabricile era u cu tehnologie din anii '60 si nu mai produceau nimic de calitate. In agricultura,a cuma se produce de trei ori mai mult decat pe vremea aia chiar si cu cifrele umflate de atunci. Vorbesti si tu din auzite
Industria produce cu cel putin 75% mai mult decat in anii 80. Agricultura vanduta? Suntem printre cei mai mari exportatori din UE. Stii economie cum stiu eu balet.
@Cornelbananau pey, văd că nu înțelegi ceea ce citești! Marea agricultură nu mai aparține românilor!!!!!
Industria cui?! Fabricile și uzinele ROMÂNEȘTI, s-au vândut la fier vechi!
@Cornelbananau Străinii care fac agricultură, duc grâul "afară" și aduc cocă congelată să o vândă ca pâine!
@Cornelbananau Eu, poate spre surprinderea ta, știu ce înseamnă o balanță!
Când cumperi din afară mai mult decât vinzi într-acolo, ieși în pierdere!
O mascaradă că doar la noi se putea întâmpla, ne-am omorât între noi,,civili cu arme care trăgeau în alți civil crezîndui teroriști și pe care nu ia interogat nimeni,este un filmuleț cu unul care are o banderolă roșie pe frunte ca Rambo trage gagiul ca in codru nici el nu știe în cine trage sau în cine a tras dar era revolutionar,o mizerie de "revoluție "care a luat suflete nevinovate și o nație însetată de sîngele propriu,75% din populația de la țară în 2024 au rămas blocați în 89 adică ușor de influențat și ușor de manipulat
I have to smile about the WW2 Dutch infantry helmets the Romanian soldiers were still wearing at that time. It was the only country that adopted that helmet apart from The Netherlands before 1940.
Romanians know better !
Votam masiv Calin Georgescu
Socialism can never be permitted to exist. Long live Christ the King! Habemus Papem!
we came full circle ...end of freedom is near!
DEAR BBC news 1989 I was interviewed by 3 reporter in camping cotsuniac in former Yugoslavia , how I can't get the tape to show my grad children and my son he was only 1 year and 2 month ,
Bro chose the whitest romanian for front page
Hahaha
Ethnic Romanians are White
What do you expect from a leftist propaganda channel?
You should know something about gypsies Bulgarian
Romanians are White .
The UK has become such a sad shadow of what it once was under Margaret Thatcher
I was 21 years old,I remember it like it was yesterday.....
Sadly, my romanian people didnt learned almost anything in all these years. Mainly `cause our education system doesnt`t want to change, still forming ppl in comunist mentality.
Remember this, Reverend Laszlo Tokes, was the Ethnic Hungarian in Transylvania, who organised the protest and the Rebellion against Ceaușescu and his Regime.
The President Ceausescu it was one of the best thing that Romania had it, now these days the whole country are are down, full of debt and coruption.
What’s funnier to me is that more Romanians back then spoke english than they do now 😂, a country so anti-west/east, so isolated, yet everyone and their grandmas knew a word or 2 of english
You're pretty misinformed then. People were allowed to learn a second international language of their choice. Surprisingly, not that many chose Russian , but French, German and English. And also, we have more English speakers in average than probably any other eastern European country right now as allot of us were raised with no dubs no subtitles Cartoon Network and stuff after the Revolution.
@@RomaniaOverpowered Hmmm, poate? Stiu ca nu am mai trait in Romania de 15 ani, dar am facut 4 ani de scoala in Romania si imi aduc aminte ca nu multe lume era... inebunita cu engleza, poate lucrurile s-au schimbat acum, nu am mai vizitat tara de 6 ani, aproape 7.
I like how 50% of this video is only about the fortunate one's that didn't live in Romania at the time, and 25% is about people that were put in chair by the regime (press dir.). You could do better.
O lovitura de stat
If I was born in 1989 I would've been born in the middle of the revolution
Just a few years earlier the Soviets would have crushed the revolution
I was in Yugoslavia in Belgrade demonstrated in front the Romania embassy , the all emigrant screaming and cry I hold my son in my arms he was 1 and 3 month inside the boxes say down ceausescu free Romania all the camera in front of us take picture of my son and his father ,the next day we are front Paige in the news all over Europe news , I wish I tell some reporter how I crose the river Danube with one little baby ,in 23 march 1989 and how much I suffer my god how much I suffer
to you it might sound outrageous
but if you would like to hit the right kind of audience you would make the effforts to translate the lines to romanian, as those events happened in romania not in the united kingdom. All these english floating all around doesn't help the people who, in theory, you would like to understand what all the people are saying.
it's a very wonderful feeling to wake up in the morning living in your bubble of safe haven but it would be trully helpful for YOURSELF to wake up and check reality for a change, that is if the ignorance in which you are living is too much to bear or if you want to form human bonds with other people from ROMANIA.
NOW it is your responsiblity to fight for those european rights you are so much talking nowadays. may mercy find those who are righteous
Bashir al Assad….
@@tng2057 is hiding in Moscow!
@@miked451 Now his wife left him!
@@HarlodShekelbonds She hooked up with Santa?😅
@@IfIThinkthereforeIam with alah
We deserve to know the truth of what happened back then. Maybe we will choose our leaders better next time.
It was the biggest mistake of Romania
After 35 years .. we have hungarians in the state supreme council of defense ✌🏻 am invins !! They started with Lazlo Tokes, they finish with Tanczos Barna :)) am inviiiins!!!
CORECT SI LA TINTA.....
A FOST LOVITURĂ DE STAT !
Cheers ITN. And post mortem thanks to the greatest Queen of all.
Those moments were one of the best of my life even I was only 12.Imagine the meaning of those moments for older generations
*when people get fed up of gov corruption......
Proud to be born in Timisoara
They looks like spanish russians
😂😂😂 Omg
Those days I remember, it was snowy X-mas and i watched this revolution from TV. Student during those days.
I was in Bucarest 1997, I visited Caicescu"s palace and so on. Care de Nord was horribele place, full of criminals.
what did you find in shops, supermarkets, pharmacies in the last 80's? Such as disposable diapers for babies (Pampers or other brands of diapers), cosmetic products, soaps, perfumes. I ask for this information because I do not know how they used diapers on babies before the fall of the regime.
Acum sunt multe mărci de scutece, mai multe decât bebeluși.
I remember sitting watching that live.
what did you find in shops, supermarkets, pharmacies in the last 80's? Such as disposable diapers for babies (Pampers or other brands of diapers), cosmetic products, soaps, perfumes. I ask for this information because I do not know how they used diapers on babies before the fall of the regime.
4.20 to 5.12, change a name
Thank you very much for this. '
"cu drept la recurs" a scris pe judecata Tribunalul Militar
O să îmi fie mereu rușine cu voi si mereu mi-am dorit să nu fi fost născută în România
I wish I was a different nationality. Always grateful to Australia for giving me a new citizenship
Art. 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "Everyone has the right to life" was the President not human? About his wife? why did she have to die?
Au tras intre ai păcat că au murit oameni nevinovați din cauza altor conducători!
Tâta à fost i au tras in brat 😢😢😢 pe ei pe mama lor
1:29:51 Wow i also never saw such bullet ever.
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@@vladnickul ?
@@aleksandergabriel2541 what bullet?
The news at ten broadcast reminds me of a command and conquer red alert cut scene
I was 10, seems like ages ago.
Not too free if your lgbt
Bla bla si apa chioara , lovitura de stat a fost , exact cum sa intamplat si cu Georgescu acum.
🥹🤗❤️✊☝️🙏
Sounds like Borat...1:22:09
Britain supports protesters
But brits csn be arrested for making comments on Internet
I dont know what’s going on in the UK in regards to citizen’s rights and liberties, but it’s quite sad. I say this as a Romanian.
😭
Tik toooooook!!!
Omg! Margaret Thatcher, what a leader. Wish Romanians will find someone similar to her 🙏
give you a bet the British was involved, i only need to check history and ill be correct
Delusional Russian nonsense.
Depending on their IMF "Agreement" aka loan, they all get a central bank no matter which regime is in control.
At least try to be less obvious fascist troll.
😅😅😅😅😅
Y que tal les va a los rumanos en democracia?
Mal.Muy mal !casi 6 miliones de Rumanos emigraron ....
@@Kuberniccus Por no hablar de las ultimas elecciones rumanas que como no votaron "bien" las anularon, y la deuda esta casi al 50 partiendo de 0 con Ciaucescu
Malo? Lo que has dicho es una ilusión. A nosotros, los rumanos, nos va mejor ahora que en cualquier otro momento de nuestra historia. Rumania se ha convertido en una fuerte economía en la región y está lidera la región de los Balcanes. Ciertamente somos más ricos que cualquier país de Sudamérica y estamos alcanzando a España.
@@kokigThanks for the pro-Russian propaganda! Good to know that there are still people shilling for Putin's tyrannical regime out there.
@@UlpianHeritor Jajaja...si hombre si, os va tan bien que sólo entre 2011 y 2021 Rumanía perdió 1,1 millones de habitantes, un 5,7% de su población, desde que salieron del comunismo en 1989, han emigrado el 38% rumanos, y casi todas las regiones rumanas, búlgaras y la mitad de las húngaras están de lleno en “trampas de desarrollo”, esta transición a un capitalismo “perverso”, que “genera riqueza pero no bienesta r”, provocó un “terrible declive” en “todo el este, tanto rural como urbano”, marcado por un éxodo juvenil masivo desde 1989, que hizo que en los 30 años siguientes Rumanía perdiera un 79% del PIB nacional.
No se de que riqueza me hablas ya que más de una cuarta parte de los jóvenes rumanos vive en riesgo de pobreza y exclusión, según Eurostat, tampoco te creas que estais muy lejos de paises suramericanos ya que el riesgo de pobreza en Rumanía se cerró en 2023 con un 21,1% de sus habitantes en riesgo de pobreza, superior por ejemplo a Chile y a poca distancia de Brasil
En cuanto lo de alcanzar a España, lo que se esta alcanzando es a llenar España de mafias de explotacion sexual de mujeres rumanas y los calabozos de delincuentes de origen rumano, ya que segun datos del ministerio del interior uno de cada diez rumanos que viven en España tiene antecedentes policiales.
vamos un exitazo
A coup, just after Romania had paid off all of its foreign debt and could start building the country again
It was a revolution, dear sir/madam and for sure not a coup.
Paid off by starving and exploiting the population
Ai inteligenta unui copil de clasa a doua.
@@valevisa8429îl supraapreciezi chiar
I'm very glad Ceaușescu is gone!
They freed themselves from one dictatorship to eventually hand over their sovereignty to the EU. 😅
Exactly.
Asalamalikum Allah is great and will of Allah will prevail.
GFY
Cia revolut
…to be in power by any means without to be legitimate by your peoples is….a very dangerous game, others learn and watch what you mistake.
Very dramatic footage. Most of the time i see a old woman from England
"Thank you" 🇺🇸
Fascinating how the thumbnail for this video is an image of a guy who looks anything but a typical romanian. Yeah, I know, I must be paranoid, conspiracy theorist and all the other cancel culture buzz words. Don't bother !
Victorie Victorie ua-cam.com/video/liyfl2X_NjA/v-deo.htmlsi=QcAWToZWBqqj1-xs ❤
Cine il voteaza pe georgescu aici vrea sa se intoarca.