I love the look on Ceausescu’s face when he knew the people turned on him. Every leader everywhere in the world should fear the people, not the other way around.
The Roman emperor Nero only feared one thing ......... an angry Roman croud. He fled for an angry croud and gave to a slave the order to kill him to avoid falling in the hands of the croud. Hitler committed suicide too. Napoleon was on Saint Helena Island. What will happen to Mister Putin??
@@hollandmeester347 European history has shown that tyrants and dictators tend to meet grisly ends. Look at what happened to Musolini in the end. Perhaps one thing that is consistent among all dictators is their delusion of reality. This is evidenced by the fact they don't learn from history
@@sohaybmegraoui2050 Enemies of Europe like Napoleon, Hitler, Musolini and Putin are doomed to fail. First they are succesful, then they have failures and then they face defeat. At the long end Putin will loose and will be called the Sick man of Europe......
@@hollandmeester347 He, like Lennon and Stalin, will be enshrined in Lennon’s tomb. And like Stalin, a new leader will remove his body and bury him in a grave with a footnote in Russian history as a corrupt leader.
Elena Ceausescu in the background, full of arrogance and never, ever believing she and her husband would be riddled with bullets in only three days from that speech.
I was kid back then. I remember my father came back home shot in the leg. My father was a captain in the army was sent to defend the Airport to keep Ceausescu from leaving. My mother a doctor was kept at the hospital. I was home. Outside it was chaos, people shouting, you could hear gun shots. That's all I remember.
@@70ajc it wasn't that bad. It wasn't North Korea. People had jobs, apartments, going to the mountains, sea side, safe streets. People had enough with the lack of diversity. Shops mostly empty, standing in line at supermarkets. Ceausescu was fooled by the security services, when he was visiting a supermarket for example they were filling it up, everyone had smiling faces. He didn't know the reality. There are people who miss that era so that should say a lot. There were no homeless. They were building apartment buildings for everyone, everyone was working. Some people were different and they wanted freedom, some moved away in USA and Western Europe. I don't believe Ceausescu needed to be executed. The people who were responsible for all the bad were mostly the secret services, Russian Influences and a few figures from the political stage that in the end, killed Ceausescu. It was an immense pressure from the outside, Romania had zero debt and Soviet Russia wanted Ceausescu dead or brought down from his title of head of state. Ceausescu wasn't a fan of what Soviet Russia was doing and so it became hated by the Russians but appreciated by the western world. And that was the first step in Romania becoming a friend or so called friend of USA, starting with the president of USA at that time visiting Romania for the first time. That was the end Romania being influenced by Soviet Russia. Basically changed sides, went on the western aide. It's not like Romania had a choice, as a nation Romania was never a fan of Russia, it was simply in a position, in a geographic location where Russia was too close.
@@Jack_The_Ripper_Here Thank you for that balanced overview. I was a naive teenager when all this happened but even then, I was shocked by the murder of the Ceausescu's and the very biased coverage in the UK. It's something that has stayed with me. As well as wondering if Romania giving up on the vision of a balanced and equal society for the boom and bust, and unbalanced, nature of capitalism was really in the best interests of their people as a whole.
@@70ajc no he was terrible mate. He destroyed our economy, whole country was religiously suppressed, for the last bit of his rule we had to go under rations and most of our people were starving, and he was just a shit ruler who literally killed his own people and thats why the army and the people turned on him. I remember hearing about people in my city being taken away and never heard from again if they spoke against him in any way. Moreover, many don't know this but he gave his wife the highest doctor honors in Romania even though she barely passed high school. Hope that gave you an insight
@Cal Devans The Cadre He fled into the wilderness immediately after the speech. 4 days later, he was caught and executed by firing squad. Pretty sure he was scared shitless.
@@HooDatDonDar Honestly? I have no idea who he was but I would bet you were not far from truth. Possibly one word of his and someone could be pulled out of home and never come back...
@@millenniumman75 They.Elected.... BIDEN. They accept 100k covid economic migrants pushed down their throats every month. Cartels control the southern border and threaten landowners there. Elections in 2022 should be a republican landslide and instant deportation like when Donnie was there. Otherwise we'll regret Ceaușescu. At least, this guy wouldn't accept such vile evil.
@@zaphodbeeblebrox9109 Not true. According to some completely inappropriate "study" by telephone to select people, 46% of the respondents considered that the quality of life was better before 1989. Perhaps they've phone called only unemployed people or something. The study is not representative to the actual population and I doubt that any significant % of the population would accept living with the censorship, total control, restrictions and severe food rationalization that were in place before 1989.
@@daeveren4120 it is true. Maybe youre talking about a different study and youve assumed im talking about the one you are aware of. When in fact im not.
When he told his people they would have to sacrifice even more, the collective anger rose up with such intensity that his time was up. You can see it in his face.
My girlfriend in the late 80's in Chicago was born and raised in Bucharest, Romania. She immigrated to the U.S as a ten year old child with her mother, sister, and brother, along with her Uncles family, not long after her father was arrested and disappeared in Bucharest. She said her father was a simple factory worker, ten hours per day, six days a week. He drank, and when he did, she said, he would often talk badly about the government, meaning Ceausescu....One late night the police banged on the door. They told her father that he didn't even need a coat, "you will be coming directly home", she told me she heard a policeman say. But she said her father, whom she'd never seen cry, was crying, telling her mother to take good care of the kids. She never saw her dad again. No word, no nothing. Ceausescu was a piece of shit murderer. He got what he deserved
That is exactly what commies told people and their family when they took away someone in my country (hungary) during the soviet regime. Fucking commies.
you forget to mention that the "soviet regime" was installed in hungary after it invaded the soviet union in 1941, killing millions. there is no comparison of juche romania and "soviet" hungary. moreover, hungary has gone back to its roots as a fascist far right dictatorship even today, something a Soviet tank army would have never allowed to happen.
BOBAH БОСС ЖМУР I think we’re talking more about the Soviet invasion in 1956 after Hungary tried to become a democratic country. Then the Soviets massacred all the civilians. Despicable commies
@Pedro Vaz pure nonsense-compare and contrast the difference between living under Soviet or communism to American influenced regimes. You'll find that not, any American influenced governments fell and people have democracy, same cannot be said of communist countries where it's utter misery as proven here in Romania under this fraud tyrant ceaucescu.
I read a book that said the disturbance was caused by someone who got up and shouted, “ Timisoara!” in reference to the police crackdown that had occurred there, and it lit some sort of fuse. The people had had enough of him and he got what was coming to him.
there"was a priest that got arrested by the romanian police a few weeks before this speech if you must know now this happened when Nicole was in iran or some other country but it didnt help the fact that people was pissed at him for not doing anythıng upon returning so that played a role as well
@@messrsandersonco5985 don't see how he's not in complete control of Russia. It's not teetering on the brink of collapse like Romania, in fact its economy is doing way better than anticipated.
@Cal Devans The Cadre He had no idea that people hate him. It happens in dictatorships, that leader isn't given true information by the officials, because keeping their positions is most important to them. So they try very hard to make matters look fine
Without the right to speak freely against a government and have a public debate of contrasts, you can't claim there's much validity to public "approval."
@Cal Devans The Cadre He thought that it was a demonstration for him, not against. He realized way too late, as you can see in his speech. I think the book "Democratizing Capitalism" also mentioned that, but it's been a while since I read it. I did a 2 week long project on this guy and believe me, he was totally oblivious to the situation. Unconnected fun fact: His death was determined way before his trial. They even went as far, as accusing him of 60.000 deaths during the revolution, even though it was just 1100
I remember how clearly out of touch he was. How he couldn't comprehend just how truly hated he was, right to the end. I wasnt surprised by the events that followed.
Anybody who thinks the crowd started rioting during Ceausescu's speech is completely mistaken. The crowd started PANICKING because of a sonic weapon, which had been brought to disperse the crowd in case of agitation, and was used too soon, for a minor incident. (You can hear it at 1:18 as a high whistle in the background.) Some say this was premeditated by an anti-Ceausescu faction of the security forces, in order to trigger chaos. Planned or not, that is exactly what followed. But people did not actually riot there. Most of them just left after the mass panic incident, going home or hanging around in the streets. A spontaneous crowd came together elsewhere, eventually starting a protest, which got really huge in a matter of hours, and got shot at by the army after sunset. My point: during this day, Ceausescu didn't yet have a realization that he is not in control. That will only happen next day, when he flees with a chopper, and is abandoned, then captured in the countryside with his wife.
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Seams to be a body guard. I think he said (hardly comprehensibile): "Vin în sediu" / "They are entering the office" Or: "Vino-n sediu" / "Come inside the office"
He just knew it was over when everyone started shouting "Timişoara". For a bit of context on December 17, a revolution broke out in Timişoara (west Transylvania), and the Bucharest protest (which this speech is part of) was planned as a counter-action to what was going on in Timişoara. The 80 thousand people present in Bucharest were all moved to the city square by the communist regime and were supposed to stand besides the leader to send a message to the west. It commonly believed that a single person started booing Ceauşescu, and then a lot of others joined in, at which point you can see him freeze and stop mid-sentence. The person denying the praise of the leader is kind of a Romanian August Landmasser, mainly because nobody knows who the exact person really was, but there's a whole myth around him. The thing we can certainly say is that this person played a very important role in stomping the communist regime in Romania.
This video is very interesting. The only version I saw was on CNN Cold War (Episode: Conclusions). They show the part up to the red screen when the live image was taken off air and implied that that he was finished after that since the crowd started rioting. I didn't know that he came back and finished his speech. I like the comment you made about one person booing and others joining in. There is a documentary called Elena Ceausescu Doctor Horroris. The man who yelled out "down with the tyrant, down with Ceausescu" describes how people started to disperse around him. I'm sure they were worried they would be accused of being part of that dissent.
I was in Germany then, a French TV streamed astounding coverage for hours including the executions. I'll never forget it - I was also astonished the many interviews by the TV channel - so many Romanians on the streets spoke excellent French.
Romania is a francophil nation. Around 30% of our language contains words from french. France supported our independence, and we supported France in the franco-prusian war. And we were allies in ww1. General Henry Berthelot is a national hero in Romania. The first time in our history, when it was declared a day of national mourning, it was for Napoleon the 3rd. There are many more, but i try to keep it short for a yt comment. Peace! 🎉
@@Que.Miras_Bobo-d2j Appreciate! But I think some Romanians would re-phrase your comment 'Around 30% of our language contains words from french' as follows: Around 30% of the French language contains words from Romanian! Not a student of language but had good Latin: I was amazed as a child I could decipher some Romanian from my Latin competence. I mentioned this to a Romanian friend and he opined or should I say corrected me that Latin had its origins in the Romanian language! I don't think so but I enjoyed the surmise!
I was born and lived in Hungary till my 21st birthday. Hungary lies beside Romania and was under communist control until 1989. I remember his execution being all over the hungarian news. I was 4. Being a toddler I did not understand communism and dictatorship All I understood was love. I asked my dad why was everyone hating him so much and he always found a way to explain me everything in a way I was able to understand it. He said " you know son it is because he was a bastard and kept all the sausages and ham to himself but would not give any to his people so they starved for years". I instantly understood and felt the weight of what he did. Thanks Dad for everything you taught me about compassion and decency. Love you
I was in Hungary some 7 years ago. I had never seen so many poor people in my life roaming the streets in a Wester European country. When my grandparents were there in the 80s there were no poor people in the streets. I had the same impression in the Baltics (although there were less poors than in Hungary) and in Russia. Even those who hated the Russian more in Lithuania had to admit they missed having free (or almost free) housing, dental plans, helathcare... It appears that killing communism didn't get you the sausages, on the contrary.
@@Jasandiz How long were you in Hungary? How many times? You really need to be there over extended periods to be able to speak for the people? I have been in Romania for eight months now. I was here two previous times, once right after the fall of Ceausescu. I can't speak enough about the poverty and lack of industrial mechanization/ economic development under Ceausescu. My friends spoke about the bread lines and rations of growing up under the Ceausescu regime. Even though the transition has been really challenging, today's Romanians have a good standard of living- a world away from the Communist period. It is also more affordable than the West while average wage continues to increase. And, I am seeing all of the changes in southeast Romania near the border of Moldova- the most economically depressed area. Almost everyone who I talk to would never trade their progress and freedoms for a return to an authoritarian form of government.
@Griffmost Romanians support freedom fighters. Unlike you, we know tyranny when we see it. What Trudeau is doing is unlawful and tyrannical. Why should people be forced to take a vaccine that has been proven that it doesn't stop the spread of the virus? These mandates make 0 sense.
@Griff what is it with you bootlickers always being so condescending? It's a weird dichotomy yet, you all seem to possess these characteristics. Weird huh...1. The vaccines doesn't stop the spread and you can't prove me otherwise, it only eases the symptoms. 2.The fact that you don't think Trudeau is being tyrant right tells me how brainwashed and comfortable you are in being a slave. 3.I speak in the name of the nation because I live here and I know the sentiment of the majority.
As a Libyan (presumably) I'm sure you can appreciate the same irony with Gadaffi. The video of him being beaten, shot and stabbed by a mob is still fresh in my own mind. Even after so long. I think of him in that ridiculous military getup he would wear. Then I think of him named, bruised, shot, stabbed, beaten relentlessly by the very people who once feared him so much. People he would have had tortured and executed at a moment's notice. It seems that on a long enough timeline, almost every dictator gets their comeuppance.
Mr. Ceaușescu that was a great and inspiring speech, thank you. Would you and Mrs Ceaușescu be so kind as to stand over at that wall so we can uhhhh...'take a picture', please thank you!
How incredible for a revolution to be documented on tape. We hear so much about the French, Russian, and American revolutions from historians and textbooks, but to actually see it unfold is amazing.
It was not "revolution". It was COUP D'ETAT. Ceaucescu was not a saint, but these events were planned by western agencies, that used some discountents people of these countries. After that, they restoured capitalism, with mass privatizations and precarization of labour, like latin america.
Mr. Ceausescu was a great patriot if that man were alive in this year 2023, then he would have prevented Romanian entry into the very pervert and Satanic European Union
At the 01:42 minute, the right translation is "come inside the building!" (said to Ceaușescu by the security officer) and not "they are entering the building".
1:23 a moment he realized that he is over. A moment of fear - when you know you are done. That video is classic. Greets from Poland for all Romanian patriots.
@@jakewalberg4177 Thing about common russian is that they can't actually rule "their own" without a tzar holding them in firm grip. The nation is not as developed as european nations and there's a long way ahead of them. If you want to know what happens to undeveloped nation trying to break the regime - check the current state of Ukraine.
@@jakewalberg4177 "enough amount" has to be at least majority in plain and healthy democracy.. and to overthrow an authoritarian regime it comes to perhaps 70% of population willing to change the system. That's a first one and we already fail there when it comes to Russia. 2nd one is to have an idea and a political culture able to set up a new political system after current one is overthrown - this is where we fail again. I'm not even going into economic issues re-privatisation of regime-connected oligarchies and so on... for now it's unsolvable
I was born on January 1990 in Bucharest. My parents told me that when they took me out of the hospital, the army was still in the streets of Bucharest and random people would ask my parents wether I'm a girl or a boy. Most of these people would tell my parents to name me Victoria, because "we are victorious", communism is gone.
I was a non destructive testing inspection-engineer for an American company and was send to Rumenia in 1984 to inspect a quantity of steel seamless pipe bought by an Austrian company from a Rumenian steel-mill.The steel-mill was in the northern part of the country in a town called Roman. Having lived for my whole life in Holland and Italy i was so surprised to see the living conditions of the Rumenian people. They were all dressed as beggars and you never saw people smiling on the streets. Girls came by the hotel to offer themselves for escort services. The lights in town went out at 21.00 in the evening and i was told the heating as well. The roads were hideous, the stores were almost completely empty, te only cars were from the police forces. The steel-mill we worked in was an old tired mill with turn of the century equipment and the quality of the pipe was really terrible, had to reject over 60% of the production. It was also an extremely dangerous environment, cables of the cranes worn out, no protectionbarriers, very poor personal gear for the workers, sparks from the electrical wiring everywhere. There were over 7000 people working in the mill but the parking was completely empty but for a few cars from the higher management. People arrived at the job walking from the town which was 4 km away from the mill. Of course we were based in the best hotel available in the area and had all the "luxury" not available to the Rumenian people (such as running water, electricity, decent food). The factory workers (lovely people) i met gave me some more information about their living conditions though in a very veiled manner. There was an engineer who spoke English and he had to stay with us during all the time we were inside the the steel-mill, probably to check on us. He did not like us to talk politics or telling workers about the living standards of a western factory worker. I always felt really bad about all my privileges when i returned at home and remember i was so happy for the Rumenian people when they finally got rid of that terrible dictator i almost cried.
"Terrible dictator", but people bought a new 2 rooms apartment as worker class people and they paid it off in about 10-15 years, during Ceausescu. Eating in restaurants were dirt cheap, cigarettes and alcohol were dirt cheap, hotels were dirt cheap, students didn't eat their shit ramen like in the USA, but they have eaten warm food 3 times a day in dirt cheap canteens, parents could EASILY afford to pay the universities for their kids, and the list could go on. Yes base products were heavily exported therefore limited in availability, BUT EVERYTHING ELSE, like vegetables, nuts, fruits, and many other food you could buy on the market costed nothing and markets were everywhere. So you REALLY have to question, that other than securing freedoms, what Romanian politicians have done for the economy, after Ceausescu? The worker class had a better life during Ceausescu, and could afford MORE. Why nobody is talking about that? The worker class had leftover money at the end of the month, today they can barely pay their food and their rent. But Ceausescu didn't even graduate the high school, he only made a few classes after elementary school, which is totally visible, he is a clown on the video, was taught what to say.
@@mobilhome1824 I stayed for over a year in Rumania in 1984 and never saw any of the wonderful things you have described, I saw almost empty supermarkets : no milk, no sugar, no coffee or thee, no meat, no chocolate, no cheese, no biscuits.The only items available were soap, fuzzy water and funny soft drinks, canned fish and toilet paper. Its true that there were plenty of markets but they sold mostly vegetables. The few restaurants in the city of Roman (and in Bacau, Timisoara, Alba Julia) had a very limited menu, mostly vegetables and very shady meat (never found out what kind of meat).Yes, the restaurants were "dirt cheap" but you had no choice, you had to eat what was available. Dirt is useally dirt cheap.... Maybe in Bucarest there was more choice of restaurants and better food. I have had 1 excellent meal there, in a restaurant filled with foreign diplomats and big shots from Rumania. It was like going into another world when i entered this restaurant. You say cigarettes were also dirt cheap but literally everybody was always asking me for a smoke as the local cigarettes were tasting like shit. Even the militia asked for cigarettes as bribes. The fact that the price of alcohol was low is not an endorsement for a country. If you give poor people cheap alcohol as their only way of distraction you only create alcoholics. And alcohol is very easy to make at a cheap rate, you can distill literally anything to produce alcohol. Maybe the working class could afford to pay of a 2 room appartement in 15 years but the houses i have seen were of bad building quality, poor plumbing, hardly any furniture and cold as they were not allowed to heat up the house over 16 degree (to save fuel). Electricity was cut off regularly for the same reason. The roads were terrible, sometimes flooded, full of potholes, without any lllumination so at night extremely dangerous. Maybe the workers had some money left at the end of the month but when there's nothing to buy money is no good. If the working class is worse of now i feel very sorry for them. But it is hard to believe that the living conditions are worse now compared to the duration of the Ceaucescu regime. As for the students in the USA : believe me, they don't eat ramen every day. Plenty of food in the USA, a country able to produce enough food to feed themselves and export agricultural products all over the world.
Необходимо ликвидировать капитализм, частную собственность, конкуренцию, бюрократию, рыночную экономику, рынок недвижимости, риелторскую деятельность, рынок ценных бумаг, биржи, предпринимательство, маркетинг, рекламу. Слово "бизнес" пора забыть. Всё должно быть национализировано. Общество должно быть бесклассовым
Behold, the intellect of a bootmaker's apprentice put in charge of a country. The really astounding thing is that he also did some good things (not many).
1:23 is the key moment, when several firecrackers exploded near The Hilton Hotel (located to Ceausescu's right). Those who fired them were deceivingly shouting "Trag in noi!" ("THEY'RE SHOOTING AT US"!). The shout spread into the crowd and grew in intensity while panic installed (the crescendo of the screams is easily noticeable between 1:25-1:37). Shortly after, other firecrackers exploded even louder (when somebody was heard saying "Someone is shooting"). At 1:41 the subtitles are misplaced, the security agent actually says: "Vino-n sediu!" ("COME INSIDE!") than turns away, opens the door behind Ceausescu and waits for him to react. Ceausescu immediately lowers his right hand (making a decision) than raises his hand after deciding to stay put, he realized nobody was shooting. Meanwhile, the security agent looks back at Ceausescu and understands he's ignoring the call... Outside, the crowd believed someone was shooting at them from the back so they either left the square or pushed forward toward the balcony. They were mere workers from the nearby factories and had no idea of what was really going on. Those who set up The Coup had at first agitated the people so they can convince Ceausescu to flee ("Come inside!"), than urged the crowd against him for shooting at them and than fleeing. The Coup was set up by a group of influential Romanian communists who received Soviet approval and were promoting Ion Iliescu to replace Ceausescu. Ironically, "I wish to thank the initiators and organizers" was The Signal. 1:09. Four days later, Ceausescu was executed. All the above facts were testified 15 years later by some of the accomplices.
SSAnwalt After watching the video recently something seemed off... the way it is commonly described is not accurate, and it's more clear to me that it is spin... I think that the accepted story of this is a hoax and that it's probably how you described it...
For me as an albanian, sounds mostly like albanian in terms of sounds, words and rhythm, but with a strong latin influence, the same way as we are influenced by latin language. As for slavic, maybe 10% of it.
I'm Brazilian and I can understand a lot from his speech without the subtitles, given the fact that Romanian is really close to Portuguese, given its Latin origins. It has some Russian words tho, as "tovarisch", the Russian for "comrade".
He was executed for genocide of romanian people, am I right? Population of Romania 1989 - 23 miliions, 2017 - 19 millions. Why you dont execute your currient goverment, your coutry lost 4.000.000 romanians lol
the last days / moments of Nicolae Ceausescu is actually very fascnating , something happened, the people grew brave and were ready to risk everything, they wanted their history and country back
@@70ajc well, you see, one example would be, Romania was/is a very Christian country and a monarchy before the Communists took it over. You know what communism does with religion once is in power? They banish it.
@@choxxxieful There's a chance that Nicolae and his wife were both stooges for the gangsters who really ran the country: they'd milked Communism dry and now it was time to cut loose and put on business-suits, after first eliminating the two principal front-people and a few more.
It was similar in Czechoslovakia. The communist chief Miroslav Stepan spoke to the workers in the factory. It was November 23, 1989. The workers began to whistle. He didn't expect that. It was a legendary moment.
Mr. Ceausescu was a great patriot if that man were alive in this year 2023, then he would have prevented Romanian entry into the very pervert and Satanic European Union
@@Trancymindit did, but not like that. Romania was the last of the revolutions of the 1980s--Poland had a long struggle with Solidarity and the Baltic Republics of the USSR had been agitating for years. In November of 1989 the Berlin Wall fell and Czechoslovakia's communist government was done away with, too. Ceaucescu's overthrow happened right before Christmas. Besides being the last, it was also the ONLY violent revolution of that group. Why is still kind of uncertain but a commonly accepted theory proposed by political scientists and historians is that the regime of Ceaucescu was so brutal that the populace had to use a proportionate amount of violence to get rid of him. However, to compare this to the end of communism in CZ just doesn't really work. CZ was much more industrialized and... civilized than Romania was. Things were pretty calm there, even in 1989. The Czechoslovak revolution was called The Velvet Revolution for a reason. The workers in Czechoslovakia may have whistled and protested but that's about all that happened.
My dad went skiing in Romania in 1987/1988. His whole group was followed constantly by the secret police and a revolutionist set himself on fire near the ski resort in protest of the regime. Scary times
I suppose he was in Poiana Brasov, since that was the most famous skiing resort back than. In the city of Brasov there were big protests already in 1987, that almost sparked a revolution. But this time they were still able to shoot it down and it did not spread to other cities. Possibly your father was there just a few weeks after these events.
An artist friend of mine lived in Yugoslavia during the time of Ceausescu. He told me that he would travel to Romania sometimes because art supplies were very cheap in Bucharest. He told me that people on the street walked about in abject misery; a look of sheer misery on every one of their faces. He would see a Romanian soldier from time to time make an appearance and people would scatter in panic. The soldier had a face that showed hatred for every thing and every one. Like a vicious hound!
@@petekdemircioglu That's not true. The soldiers for example did not hate anyone, they were mostly village boys in their 20's who had nothing to do with communism and just wanted to go back home. It was the "Securitate" (secret services) men that indeed were cruel, they were the hardliners. My father was in the army at that time and he said everyone there hated Ceaușescu. He is a very kind and warm man, but he said that if he was in the platoon that executed Ceaușescu, he wouldve fired without hesitation his entire magazine in him. What you two say about us is absurd, we are kind and welcoming. During those times, most of the soldiers were filled with hate not towards the people, but towards the dictator that made our life hell. I invite you to visit our country and see for yourself how we really are.
It's crazy to think that Ceausescu had just about every opportunity following this moment to take responsibility and attempt to moderate his policies to appease the uprising, but in nearly every instance he doubled down, accusing his opponents of being "traitors" serving "western interests" right up to his execution.
funny given that ceausescu in spite of being a domestic hardliner was just about the most pro-western leader in the eastern bloc, to the point that there's a lot of evidence to suggest the entire revolution was orchestrated by Soviet intelligence out of fear that he'd try to leave the Warsaw pact
Все диктаторы совершают одну и ту же ошибку - им кажется , что они бессмертные и неуязвимые... Но все они плохо заканчивают свою жизнь. Ничему их история не учит.
@@Slayer-sr2zm там, где я живу наоборот - повсюду его обожатели . Причём, разных возрастов. "Кто, если не он?" "Россию с колен поднял" "Только с ним Россию стали уважать и бояться" А когда их просишь более конкретные примеры привести, то они начинают психовать. "
@@Slayer-sr2zm ну, украинцы в этом плане ничуть не лучше. Послушайте, что говорит ваш Арестович. Он в открытую говорит, что народ Украины очень истеричный и легко управляемый. И что власть Украины вас, простых украинцев, вообще за людей не считает, а просто использует в своих целях. Так что особой разницы между двумя этими народами нет. Особенно это становится заметно, когда русские и украинцы обвиняют друг друга в одном и том же. Два не очень любящих думать народа.
It's wonderful isn't it. To see such a nasty piece of work start to get some payback and where it would finally end shortly. I wonder of he knew that his 30 years of living large was going to end like that if he still would've taken the deal.
@Sapnap I don't think that's true....Biden is MUCH more like Ceausescu - completely out of touch with his people, forcing vaccinations, getting out of Afghanistan without telling our allies who had troops there, sending inflation so high people can't afford things like canned soup, and the UA-cam Secret Police and SOcial Media being monitored....and protecting Joe like he's a genius. Face it, Sapnap - JOEjanHorse is MUCH more Communist than Trump ever was. YOU GOT PLAYED for your vote and you are still in denial!
@@brianwalsh1401 he was just a figurehead for a system that lives on in Romania. the ones pulling his wires are the same ones in charge nowadays. And their children.
@@millenniumman75 Ceausescu was actually intelligent and well spoken, but he is bad as a leader as Biden sure. Biden is a walking mess, he is so dement that he doesnt even know whats going on.
At 1:18 there is a high hissing sound. After that sound, the turmoil starts. On Wikipedia it says it’s a women screaming. But I can’t really make out what it is. Whatever, this is one of the most remarkable moments in history…
He did seem to have run out of ideas by that point. His prepared speech, such as it was, also lacked content, even by the standards of demagogic politicians.
I heard she banned Chemists from getting certain products so they got around this by requesting them using scientific names which they knew she wouldn't understand. She then signed them off. Lol. Anyway, all's well that ends well. I'm glad she got a bullet. She deserved nothing less, as did he.
@@fjodordorndorf2706 this is Germany buddy, not Putinstan. There is credibility to our leaders degrees as we actually indict our politicians like Gutenberg and co for their wrongdoings. And unlike Russia degrees in the west actually mirror scientific progress and metrics such as scientific papers released per year unlike Russia where half the population has officially a degree, yet that same population isn't smart enough to bring prosperity to itself.
@@joel.759 She never got a Nobel prize or was a laureate. Can not find any info about that. She did however essentially give herself a Phd in Chemistry, and a number of Romanian honorary titles. Not so difficult when your husband is the dictator..... PS: She only ever completed elementary school.
I remember this - I was a child but remember seeing the news but not understanding until years later what happened. The people's revenge for twenty-five years of tyranny.
@Cal Devans The Cadre People like you would have been the first to end up in the state security prisons under his regime, ignorant bourgeoise wannabe lefty.
@Cal Devans The Cadre Here in Bulgaria is the same. Everyone blame communists, russian and chinese..... 30 years later!!! It's not communists, its people who can't admit that they are wrong and has selled their countries for mere yellow coins.
@Cal Devans The Cadre Not really lol communists imprisoned other communists or executed them in my country for nothing. Most of our Generals who fought against Hitler were killed by communists.
My history teacher told us he couldnt belive how much people didnt like him, he was right I think later he escaped with a helicopter but the pilot 'betrayed' him and landed, in court he was sentenced to death and shot right after
I think the pilot pretended to run out of fuel, Ceacescu tried to get away in an armoured car, but the soldiers driving it surrendered and gave him up at the first opportunity. When your own army sells you out, you done fucked up.
I heard that the reason why he was immediately sentenced to death was that because the party didn’t want him to reveal anybody else who did horrible things like him Which, if they did it, they would do it to him without blinking
@@TheIT221 What was there to reveal? they were all hardcore leftists just like stalin & hitler, I.e. socialists. They were all guilty and I'm sure everyone knew it. The difference was, when the time came they at least knew when to fold and cut their losses whereas ceausescu did not.
What impressed me most was Ceausescu's absolute self-assurance and arrogance. It ended badly for him of course (SPOILER: he was caught and executed) but his self-belief in his ability to argue with an angry crowd of thousands just shows you what dictators are made of. Most people would be scared shit but there he is, trying to impose his view on hundreds of thousands...
@@sparkymedic Ive never seen so many people get so riled about about having to do something as tame as wear a mask and regularly wash their hands. Snowflakes. Snowflakes everywhere.
Because when everyone around you tells you how great and wonderful and powerful you are, you begin to believe it - especially as long as that dude was in office. But those people were forced to tell him how great he was, or they’d be sent to the gulags, or just summarily executed. He knew, but he didn’t know
I saw this a long time ago in a video essay about censorship and it really stuck with me. I tried looking for it multiple times only to have it be recommended to me today! What a powerful video!
Some of those are hiden wolfs in sheep cloth pretending they are defenders of freedoms! Its not just Putin, its Bill Gates aswel, Elon Musk and Joe Biden, and the Obama team, Macron, Von Der Lier, Netaniahu the assasin, Trudeau, they all dictators and criminals of freedoms and the destroyers of democracy, those evils who forced the ppl to get vaccinated with evil tech vaccines, the mark of the beast from the bible! This will culminate with the destruction of the western civilization, soon will come ww3 and the first targets will be U.S/UK and The Vatican, they will be nuclear ashes, the bible prophecy never fails.
@@AparatorulPoporului The Truth is the truth ¡Have you a very nice night Mr. AparatorulPoporului! The Great Saint, the Great Valiant and Patriot Mr. Ceacescu defended the authentic National Sovereignty of Romania Now, in this 2023 age, the very Satanic and pervert euro bureaucracy of the Euroepan Uunion enslaves and subjugates the defenseless people of the Balkans When the Devilish EU imposes many many obligations on them However, the pervert EU does not give them rights and treats them like second class european citizens
in short for those Interested in what occurred, there where protests from the crowd, there had been protests in other cities,Timișoara.This appears to be on the 21st Dec 1989, there was sporadic trouble in Bucharest , but the army regained control during the night. The next day his defence minister killed himself in what appears was a botched suicide , i.e he didn't intend to die. Ceaușescu was blamed for this which lost him the Army's support, the end result is the crowds angry at this death stormed the building Ceaușescu was in, Ceaușescu managed to escape barely by helicopter with his wife. They flew to Snagov where he had a residence, they where arrested by the Police and handed over to the Army, that had no faith in him anymore. Ceaușescu was tried in a show trial and executed with his wife by a firing squad on Christmas Day, 4 days after this Video.
I love it when a story has a happy ending. His wife also smelled of rotten fish from a first hand account of an army captor. This is true. I saw the interview translated translate it to English. Nasty old woman. In the West we had things that could have taken care of that stank. It's called summers eve
I still remember this. Was in high school and sitting at home due to having a spare. In those days there wasn’t anything on tv during the day so watch this dude. Had no idea what I was watching until a few weeks later I saw him on the news saying they killed him.
Actually from this speech to Ceaucescu's "trial" and execution was only 2 or 3 days. Lightning fast for a revolution! The Romanian people had clearly had enough.
I remember all this well even though I was just a child when this happened, next he tried to make his escape in a helicopter, but the pilot and crew delivered him not to safety but to a peoples tribunal where him and his wife were found guilty and duly sentenced to death... Yes I remember it all as if it was yesterday
The tribunal was a military one that was composed of generals who repressed by fire the demonstrations in city of Timisoara and by his death sentence they tried to cover up their guilt..
I remember he was executed on Christmas Day 1989, which meant that television that day was really odd. Adverts for Crocodile Dundee and the Russ Abbot Christmas Show interspersed with footage of Ceausescu and his wife lying dead in a schoolroom.
I was studying international relations at uni in Uppsala, Sweden when this happened and "the wall" came down. Our course material had to be updated almost daily. World events were our best teacher. Best time of my student days and very emotional. May Romania stay free and prosper.
1:23 is such an dreadful moment, we hear screams and only see reaction of Ceausescu. A mass hysteria just sweeping through the streets suddenly with all bottled emotions bursting out from oppressed people.
They don't learn from this. You can't tell a narcissists or a sociopath anything because they know everything. Ask the people that tried to consul 45 US pres. anything. Fougettaboutit.
@@brianwalsh1401 You are one President off - you were listening to American Communist Propaganda (LEFT wing!). 46 is the real problem.....we are living our own version of Ceausescu now. Have you noticed that as immigrants with Corona flood the border....he blames that state for a rise in cases - it was his own doing! The media is focused on what ice cream flavor he chose to eat! Wake up!
@@brianwalsh1401 Maybe you're right, Ceausescu is closer to 45. He wouldn't tolerate scum entering illegaly in his country. He wouldn't tolerate a group burning and looting whole cities. He wouldn't tolerate 900 USD theft as a misdemeanor and police closing its eyes. He wouldn't accept losing strategic independence to another country (most medicines from USA are made in China, whole industries moved overseas). He wouldn't accept getting a diploma without knowing how to read and do some basic math. Actually, 46 is taking all the wrong measures Ceausescu took, but you are too blind to see.
A friend of mine, who worked in political analysis once said - totalitarian regimes can last for a long time, but they might break down in one day. Democratic regimes may not last very long, but they will break down very slowly. Ceausescu vs Tito is a very good example of that. Gorbachev too.
The Iron Curtain fell relatively fast during a period I hadn't access to TV or newspaper. Those events were a bit unbelievable for me having the cemented idea of the big enemy in the east for all those years. In Hungary the transition was peacefully during a period of months; in East Germany it was in weeks and only in Romania there was heavy fighting. It later became clear that the ones who took power there were all previous party members who weren't exactly innocent as well.
Your forgot what the 90s and Yeltzin looked like, that’s real democracy that’s is what the west actually delivers to people. That is what it actually looks like for the majority of the planet for Africa, Asia and Latin America that’s all the US and Western European satellites have bought to the world
This was the best film quality I’ve ever seen of this. I’d love to see the whole documentary in this quality. In the early 90’s, PBS showed a documentary on this, which I’ve always wanted to see again, but can’t recall which one it was. There are several out there, but most have terrible film quality. While this was a short clip, the quality was great. Thank you for posting.
@@keithdoran89 Keith, Thank you so much! Man, I appreciate that very much. I’ve always wanted to watch it again. I’ll just have to see where it is available. Cheers, from Texas
@@Shaken_AND_Stirred ua-cam.com/video/x224czRmdiU/v-deo.html and ua-cam.com/video/NLfZWGOZ03Q/v-deo.html may well have what you need in parts one and two.
@@Kibbe_Surdo I have never been able to find the original PBS/Frontline documentary on Ceausescu. There are still several good ones to watch though. This 1990 ABC News Nightline documentary with Ted Koppel is a good one. ua-cam.com/video/D8DQ-Axi1V0/v-deo.html “Death Of A Dictator” is a good one. ua-cam.com/video/7aEzLJdzi9w/v-deo.html “Rise And Fall of Nicolas Ceausescu” is a good one as well. ua-cam.com/video/KlzpR8GNwWA/v-deo.html The film quality is fairly decent on these, and between them, you’ll glen basically what was from the original Frontline/PBS documentary. At least I did. Cheers
For those who have come here not knowing the context in which the speech was given, Ceauseşcu was reacting to public upheaval, both as a result of growing unrest in the eastern bloc and off the back of a massacre in Timişoara, the site of the first uprising in Romania. Workers were forced to attend under threat of being fired. They were also told when and what to chant in response to Ceauseşcu's words. Too little too late for Ceauseşcu and his wife. This speech took place four days before their attempt at escape, which as we all know, was thwarted. They were hurriedly given a show trial, found guilty and executed. The brutality of Ceauseşcu surpassed even the most violent standards, so to speak, of other Soviet regimes.
I would like to point that Ceaușescu regime was not an extreme of brutality. An average dictator. From my perspective as Romanian he was shot cos of food and basic good shortage in peace time. While not being under any sanctions. Payed external debt in 5 years with a slight proffit over paying in a longer period to avoid financial shock. He took decisions like that by himself, alienating communist party leadership and at that point he could have been the nicest guy in the world, it didn't matter. The ideea is to not alienate everybody at once. He managed to do exactly that without being especially brutal.
To understand the situation better, communism is more like a republic then a kingdom. Communists do not appreciate a guy who wants to rule for life. So yep, he alienated the public with communist economic policies and alienated his fellow communist high rank officials with concentrating too much power for too long. Zero support
I used to have Romanian neighbours in the block of flats I used to live in. Heard 'Alo' a lot if they were trying to attract attention, or if they were having a boisterous party and so on.
The very worst Karma is to succeed (in illusion really) on the wrong path. No matter how poor or difficult life is, with an intact soul, you are in a far, far better place than NC.
When will it be Putin's turn....?
A Vučić
I'm afraid it will soon be Biden and Trump's turn, and even Von der Leyen
Netanyahu is next.
g got pinned under a 13 year old video in 2024
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I love the look on Ceausescu’s face when he knew the people turned on him. Every leader everywhere in the world should fear the people, not the other way around.
The Roman emperor Nero only feared one thing ......... an angry Roman croud. He fled for an angry croud and gave to a slave the order to kill him to avoid falling in the hands of the croud. Hitler committed suicide too. Napoleon was on Saint Helena Island. What will happen to Mister Putin??
@@hollandmeester347 European history has shown that tyrants and dictators tend to meet grisly ends. Look at what happened to Musolini in the end. Perhaps one thing that is consistent among all dictators is their delusion of reality. This is evidenced by the fact they don't learn from history
@@sohaybmegraoui2050 Enemies of Europe like Napoleon, Hitler, Musolini and Putin are doomed to fail. First they are succesful, then they have failures and then they face defeat. At the long end Putin will loose and will be called the Sick man of Europe......
@@hollandmeester347 He, like Lennon and Stalin, will be enshrined in Lennon’s tomb. And like Stalin, a new leader will remove his body and bury him in a grave with a footnote in Russian history as a corrupt leader.
It is impossible to understate the brutality of the Ceauescu’s regime.
He opened his address by sending his sincerest revolutionary wishes to the crowd. They ultimately sent those wishes right back his way.
Ahahah
Very good comment, you deserve more likes.
"Yo, Nick, can you say that again to this monkey's paw?"
Did they though? The majority?
@@70ajc You think that a revolution must be kicked off by the majority ? Simple thoughts. You have been brainwashed by modern speak.
Elena Ceausescu in the background, full of arrogance and never, ever believing she and her husband would be riddled with bullets in only three days from that speech.
Тя е мозъка
Чеушеско е пионка
Unirea urziceni petrolul ploiesti galata parlamentolul romanesci! Universitatea bucuresti sibiu carpatii draculescu piata unitatei importanta. Muitumesc cum piacere.
@@nikolaivangelov7176 da
@@rjft7003 nasty piece of work she was.
It’s a weird thought that this video is an only 30+ years old
35 years old, to be precise!
This type of stuff only never went away. There are still places like this
The strange thing is that there are still people who talk like that.
@@andreiiosup6622just like South Asia's Bangladesh, as the most recent example to this perhaps
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I was kid back then. I remember my father came back home shot in the leg. My father was a captain in the army was sent to defend the Airport to keep Ceausescu from leaving. My mother a doctor was kept at the hospital. I was home. Outside it was chaos, people shouting, you could hear gun shots. That's all I remember.
Thank you so much for sharing your memories. You've experienced the important history of your country.
So, was Romania under Ceausescu really so terrible ? Has he been unfairly demonized ?
@@70ajc it wasn't that bad. It wasn't North Korea. People had jobs, apartments, going to the mountains, sea side, safe streets. People had enough with the lack of diversity. Shops mostly empty, standing in line at supermarkets. Ceausescu was fooled by the security services, when he was visiting a supermarket for example they were filling it up, everyone had smiling faces. He didn't know the reality. There are people who miss that era so that should say a lot. There were no homeless. They were building apartment buildings for everyone, everyone was working. Some people were different and they wanted freedom, some moved away in USA and Western Europe. I don't believe Ceausescu needed to be executed. The people who were responsible for all the bad were mostly the secret services, Russian Influences and a few figures from the political stage that in the end, killed Ceausescu. It was an immense pressure from the outside, Romania had zero debt and Soviet Russia wanted Ceausescu dead or brought down from his title of head of state. Ceausescu wasn't a fan of what Soviet Russia was doing and so it became hated by the Russians but appreciated by the western world. And that was the first step in Romania becoming a friend or so called friend of USA, starting with the president of USA at that time visiting Romania for the first time. That was the end Romania being influenced by Soviet Russia. Basically changed sides, went on the western aide. It's not like Romania had a choice, as a nation Romania was never a fan of Russia, it was simply in a position, in a geographic location where Russia was too close.
@@Jack_The_Ripper_Here Thank you for that balanced overview. I was a naive teenager when all this happened but even then, I was shocked by the murder of the Ceausescu's and the very biased coverage in the UK. It's something that has stayed with me. As well as wondering if Romania giving up on the vision of a balanced and equal society for the boom and bust, and unbalanced, nature of capitalism was really in the best interests of their people as a whole.
@@70ajc no he was terrible mate. He destroyed our economy, whole country was religiously suppressed, for the last bit of his rule we had to go under rations and most of our people were starving, and he was just a shit ruler who literally killed his own people and thats why the army and the people turned on him. I remember hearing about people in my city being taken away and never heard from again if they spoke against him in any way. Moreover, many don't know this but he gave his wife the highest doctor honors in Romania even though she barely passed high school. Hope that gave you an insight
“A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.”
Well said man
That's powerful thank you.
And its power...
Now, in 2023, the people of Romania suffer the very extreme cruel tyranny of the Satanic European Union
Well, the river in this case didn't cut through, because a moscovite Communist came to power after the demise of Ceausescu.
“We must demonstrate our strength and unity...”
“No, no, not by overthrowing me! HELP!”
1:40
The guy in the hat looks like a gangster.
Well, come to think of it...
@Cal Devans the Cadre doesn't look bothered but confused and scarrd knowing that he losed the power he tought would have it forever
@Cal Devans The Cadre He fled into the wilderness immediately after the speech. 4 days later, he was caught and executed by firing squad.
Pretty sure he was scared shitless.
@@HooDatDonDar Honestly? I have no idea who he was but I would bet you were not far from truth. Possibly one word of his and someone could be pulled out of home and never come back...
@@rafanana0077 Well. He possibly could have it forever but he (like other commie camrades f..d up).
1:25: [record scratch] "Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this crazy situation."
[Baba o'Riley starts playing in the Background]
“Well you see, it all started 40 years ago”
"It all started when I moved to Bucharest to become a cobbler's apprentice..."
This is a fascinating historical document, the downfall of a leader on tape.
I found this video and I really do not understand anything !!! ua-cam.com/video/rH3I_Yvf7jc/v-deo.html😨
Hallo “ allo”
"Leader" would give him a special name, I'd say "dictator" or "tyrant"
@@detectiemetalebuzau9927 Want me to explain?
@@MereutaIoan leader is a more general term, presidents,kings,dictators.... are all leaders,
That look on his face when he realizes he lost the country is priceless.
He looks so out of it, it's like a bad sitcom.
too bad current imbeciles learnt nothing. Especially in USA.
Condoleezza Rice mention this in a speech she delivered and called it The Ceausescu Moment.
@@penalozaur Don't be so sure. More and more people are waking up here.
@@millenniumman75 They.Elected.... BIDEN. They accept 100k covid economic migrants pushed down their throats every month. Cartels control the southern border and threaten landowners there. Elections in 2022 should be a republican landslide and instant deportation like when Donnie was there. Otherwise we'll regret Ceaușescu. At least, this guy wouldn't accept such vile evil.
When cheer shifts to angry roar; when fear fades away, the dictator trembles.
Well said.
Romania deserves more praise for this. He ended like a 90s movie villain.
Look at his popularity in Romania today and you might be shocked. Over 60% are supportive of him today. How quickly we forget the past.
And that is pretty much what the revolution turned out to be: a movie.
@@zaphodbeeblebrox9109 Not true. According to some completely inappropriate "study" by telephone to select people, 46% of the respondents considered that the quality of life was better before 1989. Perhaps they've phone called only unemployed people or something. The study is not representative to the actual population and I doubt that any significant % of the population would accept living with the censorship, total control, restrictions and severe food rationalization that were in place before 1989.
@@daeveren4120 it is true. Maybe youre talking about a different study and youve assumed im talking about the one you are aware of. When in fact im not.
@@zaphodbeeblebrox9109As a Romanian myself, I can safely say that the people who “support” him are just edgy kids thinking they’re cool and funny
When he told his people they would have to sacrifice even more, the collective anger rose up with such intensity that his time was up. You can see it in his face.
Yeah, he knew he was fucked!
My girlfriend in the late 80's in Chicago was born and raised in Bucharest, Romania. She immigrated to the U.S as a ten year old child with her mother, sister, and brother, along with her Uncles family, not long after her father was arrested and disappeared in Bucharest. She said her father was a simple factory worker, ten hours per day, six days a week. He drank, and when he did, she said, he would often talk badly about the government, meaning Ceausescu....One late night the police banged on the door. They told her father that he didn't even need a coat, "you will be coming directly home", she told me she heard a policeman say. But she said her father, whom she'd never seen cry, was crying, telling her mother to take good care of the kids. She never saw her dad again. No word, no nothing. Ceausescu was a piece of shit murderer. He got what he deserved
That is exactly what commies told people and their family when they took away someone in my country (hungary) during the soviet regime. Fucking commies.
you forget to mention that the "soviet regime" was installed in hungary after it invaded the soviet union in 1941, killing millions. there is no comparison of juche romania and "soviet" hungary. moreover, hungary has gone back to its roots as a fascist far right dictatorship even today, something a Soviet tank army would have never allowed to happen.
BOBAH БОСС ЖМУР I think we’re talking more about the Soviet invasion in 1956 after Hungary tried to become a democratic country. Then the Soviets massacred all the civilians. Despicable commies
Exactly
@Pedro Vaz pure nonsense-compare and contrast the difference between living under Soviet or communism to American influenced regimes. You'll find that not, any American influenced governments fell and people have democracy, same cannot be said of communist countries where it's utter misery as proven here in Romania under this fraud tyrant ceaucescu.
One of the greatest things ever broadcast on live TV honestly.
@Quily Aston let's hope.
@@owenwexler7214 Why?
@@dejowada why not
@@Mihai769 very construcitve reply
Dictator Trudeau should watch this
I read a book that said the disturbance was caused by someone who got up and shouted, “ Timisoara!” in reference to the police crackdown that had occurred there, and it lit some sort of fuse. The people had had enough of him and he got what was coming to him.
I hope that person is proud!
there"was a priest that got arrested by the romanian police a few weeks before this speech if you must know now this happened when Nicole was in iran or some other country but it didnt help the fact that people was pissed at him for not doing anythıng upon returning so that played a role as well
im reading it now😂 and end up at this comment
Heyyyy also reading Homo Deus and came here to watch this because of it 😅
@@nadiabecker2531same!!!
Legend says he's still shouting "Alo"
Ha.
It’s Hallo or hello
Hallo allo hello ??!
where are you the "HERO"?
🤣
"Please sit down!" There are no chairs and everyone is standing. This guy was a comedic genius!🤣
@Cypher I'm Romanian. "Asezativa linistit" poate e expresie bucuresteana. La noi in Bistrita asta se intelege mai literal.
@@tinytownsoftware3837 knowing romanian language doesnt make u romanian.
@@QWERTY-gp8fd I said "I'm Romanian". In English that means that I was born in Romania. Not quite sure what you understood.
@@tinytownsoftware3837 u did not born in romania u are just pretending
@@QWERTY-gp8fd And how do you know this exactly?
What is impressive is the face of Ceausescu: the collapse of a regime in few minutes.
An incredible important moment in history. When a tyrant realizes he is no longer feared!
Ah, it warms the soul, doesn't it? 😊
Putin should take heed!
@@messrsandersonco5985 don't see how he's not in complete control of Russia. It's not teetering on the brink of collapse like Romania, in fact its economy is doing way better than anticipated.
The crowd screaming was just people panicking because theyve been shot at, it was probably intentionally done by the CIA
@@YouAintGotNoTegridyBoi I wonder if the slow death Russia is currently facing is worse than the quick one Romania went through.
I remember this happening on all the news programs and I think that it was the perfect definition of “being on the wrong side of history”.
agree 100 per cent
He hadn't the slightest idea what's going on, he just lived in the bubble for twenty-five years.
@Cal Devans The Cadre He had no idea that people hate him. It happens in dictatorships, that leader isn't given true information by the officials, because keeping their positions is most important to them. So they try very hard to make matters look fine
Without the right to speak freely against a government and have a public debate of contrasts, you can't claim there's much validity to public "approval."
@Cal Devans The Cadre I was born in a soviet country and I can tell that all you say is bullshit
@Cal Devans The Cadre He thought that it was a demonstration for him, not against. He realized way too late, as you can see in his speech. I think the book "Democratizing Capitalism" also mentioned that, but it's been a while since I read it. I did a 2 week long project on this guy and believe me, he was totally oblivious to the situation.
Unconnected fun fact:
His death was determined way before his trial. They even went as far, as accusing him of 60.000 deaths during the revolution, even though it was just 1100
@Cal Devans The Cadre Just like Bulgaria.
I remember how clearly out of touch he was. How he couldn't comprehend just how truly hated he was, right to the end. I wasnt surprised by the events that followed.
I remember too. He (and his wife) didn't seem to understand why the people hated them. They must have live a very isolated life.
D.S.C. 123
Sounds like the UK prime minister TM.
Reportedly, there were no shortage of volunteers for the firing squad--many people in Romania HATED both Ceausescus, and for good reason...
@I'M NOT CALIGULA'S HORSE. how do you support someone who is dead and for a good reason?
@@XxCreateFlowxX He is sharing statistics. He didn't said that he likes him! Now how truthful they are that is a different question.
Anybody who thinks the crowd started rioting during Ceausescu's speech is completely mistaken. The crowd started PANICKING because of a sonic weapon, which had been brought to disperse the crowd in case of agitation, and was used too soon, for a minor incident. (You can hear it at 1:18 as a high whistle in the background.) Some say this was premeditated by an anti-Ceausescu faction of the security forces, in order to trigger chaos. Planned or not, that is exactly what followed. But people did not actually riot there. Most of them just left after the mass panic incident, going home or hanging around in the streets. A spontaneous crowd came together elsewhere, eventually starting a protest, which got really huge in a matter of hours, and got shot at by the army after sunset. My point: during this day, Ceausescu didn't yet have a realization that he is not in control. That will only happen next day, when he flees with a chopper, and is abandoned, then captured in the countryside with his wife.
Indeed?
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I've always wondered why he didn't flee the country the same day of the riot but waited three days just to be captured and executed
No sonic weapon. Fake news and another internet theory
I love how that big fat thug comes up behind him and says "we're screwed!" before running into the building!
@Justin Case No - he was submitting his immediate resignation, verbally.
He said "They are entering the building."
😂Lmao
I think it was a bodyguard
Seams to be a body guard. I think he said (hardly comprehensibile): "Vin în sediu" / "They are entering the office"
Or: "Vino-n sediu" / "Come inside the office"
He just knew it was over when everyone started shouting "Timişoara". For a bit of context on December 17, a revolution broke out in Timişoara (west Transylvania), and the Bucharest protest (which this speech is part of) was planned as a counter-action to what was going on in Timişoara. The 80 thousand people present in Bucharest were all moved to the city square by the communist regime and were supposed to stand besides the leader to send a message to the west. It commonly believed that a single person started booing Ceauşescu, and then a lot of others joined in, at which point you can see him freeze and stop mid-sentence. The person denying the praise of the leader is kind of a Romanian August Landmasser, mainly because nobody knows who the exact person really was, but there's a whole myth around him. The thing we can certainly say is that this person played a very important role in stomping the communist regime in Romania.
also they arrested a priest that the people loved priour to this so that played a part as well
This video is very interesting. The only version I saw was on CNN Cold War (Episode: Conclusions). They show the part up to the red screen when the live image was taken off air and implied that that he was finished after that since the crowd started rioting. I didn't know that he came back and finished his speech. I like the comment you made about one person booing and others joining in. There is a documentary called Elena Ceausescu Doctor Horroris. The man who yelled out "down with the tyrant, down with Ceausescu" describes how people started to disperse around him.
I'm sure they were worried they would be accused of being part of that dissent.
What does that word mean?
@@ElizabethMcCormick-s2nit is the name of a city in Banate.
Timisoara isn't in Transylvania
When I was posted to Romania, in the Autumn of 1989, my boss's first words to me were, "This is a place where nothing is as it seems."
God Bless President Reagan 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@dacosta0656 the worst american president...
It's still true to this day.
@Matthias Матиас I left that place more than a decade ago.
Riccardo Massari waaaah!
I was in Germany then, a French TV streamed astounding coverage for hours including the executions. I'll never forget it - I was also astonished the many interviews by the TV channel - so many Romanians on the streets spoke excellent French.
This was common then. I was doing 4 hours of french language per week then. Now it is more english focused.
Romania is a francophil nation. Around 30% of our language contains words from french. France supported our independence, and we supported France in the franco-prusian war. And we were allies in ww1. General Henry Berthelot is a national hero in Romania. The first time in our history, when it was declared a day of national mourning, it was for Napoleon the 3rd. There are many more, but i try to keep it short for a yt comment. Peace! 🎉
It's normal for Romanians to be proficient in Italian, but French proficiency is also not surprising
Spaniola la fel
@@Que.Miras_Bobo-d2j Appreciate! But I think some Romanians would re-phrase your comment 'Around 30% of our language contains words from french' as follows: Around 30% of the French language contains words from Romanian! Not a student of language but had good Latin: I was amazed as a child I could decipher some Romanian from my Latin competence. I mentioned this to a Romanian friend and he opined or should I say corrected me that Latin had its origins in the Romanian language! I don't think so but I enjoyed the surmise!
You can hear Elena shouting in the background too. She was just as vile and more ruthless than he was.
Yeah she was a witch! She gave to herself so many titles it was ridiculous. A narcissistic woman same as her man.
She even had the "securitate" install bugging devices in his (Nicolae Ceaușescu’s) office.
I heard that she smelled too bad before Excecution
She was the Yoko Ono of communist Romania.
same with wife of Slobodan Milosevic
I was born and lived in Hungary till my 21st birthday. Hungary lies beside Romania and was under communist control until 1989. I remember his execution being all over the hungarian news. I was 4. Being a toddler I did not understand communism and dictatorship
All I understood was love. I asked my dad why was everyone hating him so much and he always found a way to explain me everything in a way I was able to understand it. He said " you know son it is because he was a bastard and kept all the sausages and ham to himself but would not give any to his people so they starved for years". I instantly understood and felt the weight of what he did.
Thanks Dad for everything you taught me about compassion and decency. Love you
Great father; he took something very traumatic and spoke truth in the way a child could understand.
Tes we all need more sausages and ham.
❤👍
I was in Hungary some 7 years ago. I had never seen so many poor people in my life roaming the streets in a Wester European country. When my grandparents were there in the 80s there were no poor people in the streets. I had the same impression in the Baltics (although there were less poors than in Hungary) and in Russia. Even those who hated the Russian more in Lithuania had to admit they missed having free (or almost free) housing, dental plans, helathcare... It appears that killing communism didn't get you the sausages, on the contrary.
@@Jasandiz How long were you in Hungary? How many times? You really need to be there over extended periods to be able to speak for the people?
I have been in Romania for eight months now. I was here two previous times, once right after the fall of Ceausescu. I can't speak enough about the poverty and lack of industrial mechanization/ economic development under Ceausescu. My friends spoke about the bread lines and rations of growing up under the Ceausescu regime. Even though the transition has been really challenging, today's Romanians have a good standard of living- a world away from the Communist period. It is also more affordable than the West while average wage continues to increase. And, I am seeing all of the changes in southeast Romania near the border of Moldova- the most economically depressed area. Almost everyone who I talk to would never trade their progress and freedoms for a return to an authoritarian form of government.
Gotta respect Romanians for their boldness against dictators. We lack it here in Russia
@Griffmost Romanians support freedom fighters. Unlike you, we know tyranny when we see it. What Trudeau is doing is unlawful and tyrannical.
Why should people be forced to take a vaccine that has been proven that it doesn't stop the spread of the virus? These mandates make 0 sense.
@Griff what is it with you bootlickers always being so condescending? It's a weird dichotomy yet, you all seem to possess these characteristics. Weird huh...1. The vaccines doesn't stop the spread and you can't prove me otherwise, it only eases the symptoms. 2.The fact that you don't think Trudeau is being tyrant right tells me how brainwashed and comfortable you are in being a slave. 3.I speak in the name of the nation because I live here and I know the sentiment of the majority.
@Griff Invoking the emergency act on PEACEFUL political dissents is tyranny, you tool.
Rise Up Now!
@@Mar.1634 Russian bot
It's really amazing how he went from cruel tyrant to helpless Oldman
Same thing in this country
They all do
Same as Saddam.
As a Libyan (presumably) I'm sure you can appreciate the same irony with Gadaffi. The video of him being beaten, shot and stabbed by a mob is still fresh in my own mind. Even after so long.
I think of him in that ridiculous military getup he would wear. Then I think of him named, bruised, shot, stabbed, beaten relentlessly by the very people who once feared him so much. People he would have had tortured and executed at a moment's notice.
It seems that on a long enough timeline, almost every dictator gets their comeuppance.
Mr. Ceaușescu that was a great and inspiring speech, thank you. Would you and Mrs Ceaușescu be so kind as to stand over at that wall so we can uhhhh...'take a picture', please thank you!
:D
They had us in the first half, not gonna lie!
"Don't mind the flash"
Idiot
I'm dead 😭🤣🤣🤣 may his soul R.I.P.
How incredible for a revolution to be documented on tape. We hear so much about the French, Russian, and American revolutions from historians and textbooks, but to actually see it unfold is amazing.
This is not the only major revolution to be recorded. But as of now and for a long time, will be the biggest
It was not "revolution".
It was COUP D'ETAT. Ceaucescu was not a saint, but these events were planned by western agencies, that used some discountents people of these countries.
After that, they restoured capitalism, with mass privatizations and precarization of labour, like latin america.
Mr. Ceausescu was a great patriot
if that man were alive in this year 2023, then he would have prevented Romanian entry into the very pervert and Satanic European Union
@@otaviofrnazariotrue. But to be able to see the EXACT MOMENT when things started to go wonky is extraordinary, especially in a pre-smartphone Era.
Не сравнивай Великий Октябрь с этой херней, пожалуйста.
This never gets old.
Neither did he 😂
At the 01:42 minute, the right translation is "come inside the building!" (said to Ceaușescu by the security officer) and not "they are entering the building".
1:23 a moment he realized that he is over. A moment of fear - when you know you are done. That video is classic. Greets from Poland for all Romanian patriots.
@Kabo Torko you are tripping
@Kafa kafica Ion Iliescu
@Kafa kafica 😄😄🤪
@@jakewalberg4177 Thing about common russian is that they can't actually rule "their own" without a tzar holding them in firm grip. The nation is not as developed as european nations and there's a long way ahead of them. If you want to know what happens to undeveloped nation trying to break the regime - check the current state of Ukraine.
@@jakewalberg4177 "enough amount" has to be at least majority in plain and healthy democracy.. and to overthrow an authoritarian regime it comes to perhaps 70% of population willing to change the system. That's a first one and we already fail there when it comes to Russia.
2nd one is to have an idea and a political culture able to set up a new political system after current one is overthrown - this is where we fail again.
I'm not even going into economic issues re-privatisation of regime-connected oligarchies and so on... for now it's unsolvable
Who else was referred to this speech from Yuval Noah Harari's Homo Deus?
Haha! Me!
Me too
Me
Yup
Wow me
I was born on January 1990 in Bucharest. My parents told me that when they took me out of the hospital, the army was still in the streets of Bucharest and random people would ask my parents wether I'm a girl or a boy. Most of these people would tell my parents to name me Victoria, because "we are victorious", communism is gone.
So is Victoria your surname ? 🙃
@@kokoaldo9866
Well, no 😅
@@dearomania8289 you were born during a very historic and liberating time for Romania. Congrats
Were you named Victoria?
@@kets4443 she answered no. Look at the Conversation
I was a non destructive testing inspection-engineer for an American company and was send to Rumenia in 1984 to inspect a quantity of steel seamless pipe bought by an Austrian company from a Rumenian steel-mill.The steel-mill was in the northern part of the country in a town called Roman. Having lived for my whole life in Holland and Italy i was so surprised to see the living conditions of the Rumenian people. They were all dressed as beggars and you never saw people smiling on the streets. Girls came by the hotel to offer themselves for escort services. The lights in town went out at 21.00 in the evening and i was told the heating as well. The roads were hideous, the stores were almost completely empty, te only cars were from the police forces. The steel-mill we worked in was an old tired mill with turn of the century equipment and the quality of the pipe was really terrible, had to reject over 60% of the production. It was also an extremely dangerous environment, cables of the cranes worn out, no protectionbarriers, very poor personal gear for the workers, sparks from the electrical wiring everywhere. There were over 7000 people working in the mill but the parking was completely empty but for a few cars from the higher management. People arrived at the job walking from the town which was 4 km away from the mill.
Of course we were based in the best hotel available in the area and had all the "luxury" not available to the Rumenian people (such as running water, electricity, decent food). The factory workers (lovely people) i met gave me some more information about their living conditions though in a very veiled manner. There was an engineer who spoke English and he had to stay with us during all the time we were inside the the steel-mill, probably to check on us. He did not like us to talk politics or telling workers about the living standards of a western factory worker. I always felt really bad about all my privileges when i returned at home and remember i was so happy for the Rumenian people when they finally got rid of that terrible dictator i almost cried.
I am glad they have what they deserve now!
"Terrible dictator", but people bought a new 2 rooms apartment as worker class people and they paid it off in about 10-15 years, during Ceausescu. Eating in restaurants were dirt cheap, cigarettes and alcohol were dirt cheap, hotels were dirt cheap, students didn't eat their shit ramen like in the USA, but they have eaten warm food 3 times a day in dirt cheap canteens, parents could EASILY afford to pay the universities for their kids, and the list could go on. Yes base products were heavily exported therefore limited in availability, BUT EVERYTHING ELSE, like vegetables, nuts, fruits, and many other food you could buy on the market costed nothing and markets were everywhere. So you REALLY have to question, that other than securing freedoms, what Romanian politicians have done for the economy, after Ceausescu? The worker class had a better life during Ceausescu, and could afford MORE. Why nobody is talking about that? The worker class had leftover money at the end of the month, today they can barely pay their food and their rent. But Ceausescu didn't even graduate the high school, he only made a few classes after elementary school, which is totally visible, he is a clown on the video, was taught what to say.
This is very interesting to read, thank you for sharing that
@@mobilhome1824 I stayed for over a year in Rumania in 1984 and never saw any of the wonderful things you have described, I saw almost empty supermarkets : no milk, no sugar, no coffee or thee, no meat, no chocolate, no cheese, no biscuits.The only items available were soap, fuzzy water and funny soft drinks, canned fish and toilet paper. Its true that there were plenty of markets but they sold mostly vegetables.
The few restaurants in the city of Roman (and in Bacau, Timisoara, Alba Julia) had a very limited menu, mostly vegetables and very shady meat (never found out what kind of meat).Yes, the restaurants were "dirt cheap" but you had no choice, you had to eat what was available. Dirt is useally dirt cheap.... Maybe in Bucarest there was more choice of restaurants and better food. I have had 1 excellent meal there, in a restaurant filled with foreign diplomats and big shots from Rumania. It was like going into another world when i entered this restaurant.
You say cigarettes were also dirt cheap but literally everybody was always asking me for a smoke as the local cigarettes were tasting like shit. Even the militia asked for cigarettes as bribes.
The fact that the price of alcohol was low is not an endorsement for a country. If you give poor people cheap alcohol as their only way of distraction you only create alcoholics. And alcohol is very easy to make at a cheap rate, you can distill literally anything to produce alcohol.
Maybe the working class could afford to pay of a 2 room appartement in 15 years but the houses i have seen were of bad building quality, poor plumbing, hardly any furniture and cold as they were not allowed to heat up the house over 16 degree (to save fuel). Electricity was cut off regularly for the same reason. The roads were terrible, sometimes flooded, full of potholes, without any lllumination so at night extremely dangerous.
Maybe the workers had some money left at the end of the month but when there's nothing to buy money is no good. If the working class is worse of now i feel very sorry for them. But it is hard to believe that the living conditions are worse now compared to the duration of the Ceaucescu regime.
As for the students in the USA : believe me, they don't eat ramen every day. Plenty of food in the USA, a country able to produce enough food to feed themselves and export agricultural products all over the world.
Необходимо ликвидировать капитализм, частную собственность, конкуренцию, бюрократию, рыночную экономику, рынок недвижимости, риелторскую деятельность, рынок ценных бумаг, биржи, предпринимательство, маркетинг, рекламу. Слово "бизнес" пора забыть. Всё должно быть национализировано. Общество должно быть бесклассовым
He was about as deaf and clueless as they come
Almost worse than Merkel and Macron:)
It's called being old and senile.
@@twrk139
“Old and Senile” couldn’t save him from his Christmas present in 1989
US Government: “Hold my beer”
Behold, the intellect of a bootmaker's apprentice put in charge of a country. The really astounding thing is that he also did some good things (not many).
It's a real life Emperor has no clothes moment...
1:23 is the key moment, when several firecrackers exploded near The Hilton Hotel (located to Ceausescu's right). Those who fired them were deceivingly shouting "Trag in noi!" ("THEY'RE SHOOTING AT US"!). The shout spread into the crowd and grew in intensity while panic installed (the crescendo of the screams is easily noticeable between 1:25-1:37). Shortly after, other firecrackers exploded even louder (when somebody was heard saying "Someone is shooting"). At 1:41 the subtitles are misplaced, the security agent actually says: "Vino-n sediu!" ("COME INSIDE!") than turns away, opens the door behind Ceausescu and waits for him to react. Ceausescu immediately lowers his right hand (making a decision) than raises his hand after deciding to stay put, he realized nobody was shooting. Meanwhile, the security agent looks back at Ceausescu and understands he's ignoring the call... Outside, the crowd believed someone was shooting at them from the back so they either left the square or pushed forward toward the balcony. They were mere workers from the nearby factories and had no idea of what was really going on. Those who set up The Coup had at first agitated the people so they can convince Ceausescu to flee ("Come inside!"), than urged the crowd against him for shooting at them and than fleeing. The Coup was set up by a group of influential Romanian communists who received Soviet approval and were promoting Ion Iliescu to replace Ceausescu. Ironically, "I wish to thank the initiators and organizers" was The Signal. 1:09. Four days later, Ceausescu was executed. All the above facts were testified 15 years later by some of the accomplices.
Damm right!!! But was necesary. It was an Police State.
SSAnwalt After watching the video recently something seemed off... the way it is commonly described is not accurate, and it's more clear to me that it is spin... I think that the accepted story of this is a hoax and that it's probably how you described it...
SSAnwalt I am from Romania and u know more things about Ceasusescu then I know :))
Sad!
Nikolai was a great and honorable man, now his countory and people are slaves to the eurofasist reshime also known as EU
Sounds like a lot of what goes on in the United States.
Romanian language is really fascinating. Sounds like a child of Roman father and Slavic mother. :D
Indeed,it's a Latino-Slavic language.
latin language surrounded by slavic country
Ceausescu spoke like a simple uneducated peasant.
For me as an albanian, sounds mostly like albanian in terms of sounds, words and rhythm, but with a strong latin influence, the same way as we are influenced by latin language. As for slavic, maybe 10% of it.
@@albangoranci is albanian also a phonetic language?
I'm Brazilian and I can understand a lot from his speech without the subtitles, given the fact that Romanian is really close to Portuguese, given its Latin origins. It has some Russian words tho, as "tovarisch", the Russian for "comrade".
Same here, i speak french as a second language (im belgian) so i could also understand quite some parts of it
@@SnubDolphin Same, I never ealised how similar Romanian was to French. It's Latin but with a slavic touch hahaha
I wonder if bolsonaro is watching this?
@@eddiecaplan1908 Bolsonaro does not watch it, he hates any sort of communists and loves Romanian masons.
Same with Spanish, I feel like hearing a sort of Latin with Russian
There has been a disturbance in the force
lol
He was executed for genocide of romanian people, am I right? Population of Romania 1989 - 23 miliions, 2017 - 19 millions. Why you dont execute your currient goverment, your coutry lost 4.000.000 romanians lol
because during his regime you couldnt just leave the country, because that's what happened to those 4million romanians
Dota 2 - Солеварня CORRECT
There has been a disturbance in the force...somone OPEN A WINDOW and let the force out!
the last days / moments of Nicolae Ceausescu is actually very fascnating , something happened, the people grew brave and were ready to risk everything, they wanted their history and country back
How exactly had they lost their history and country ?
@@70ajc because of the big bad and the magic mcguffin saved the day
@@70ajc they had no freedom and no access to culture, the history was distorted to their advantage it was the darkest time this country has seen yet.
@@70ajc well, you see, one example would be, Romania was/is a very Christian country and a monarchy before the Communists took it over. You know what communism does with religion once is in power? They banish it.
@@70ajc a communist dictator is a cancerous growth on any nation and must be removed by any means necessary.
People died 35 years ago for our freedom, and we're this close to going back to something very similar.
That look on his face when they start booing makes me smile.
It was a magnetic tape.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy (and his wife too)...
@@choxxxieful There's a chance that Nicolae and his wife were both stooges for the gangsters who really ran the country: they'd milked Communism dry and now it was time to cut loose and put on business-suits, after first eliminating the two principal front-people and a few more.
@@None-zc5vg Sure kid, your conspiracy theory for sure will pan out... * rolls eyes *
@@None-zc5vg exactly
I love how he didn't expected it. This is how all dictators should fall, with their people judging them. This should be an exemple for us citizens
it was not the people, it was the military
westerners have nothing in order to do something like this with their killers.
The people on their own never have power, they need military support. People max can protest and do a shit.
@@sovietyamemini2309are military personnel not people?
Except in the US they wanted to it in reverse. Depose democracy in favour of a dictator.
It was similar in Czechoslovakia. The communist chief Miroslav Stepan spoke to the workers in the factory. It was November 23, 1989. The workers began to whistle. He didn't expect that. It was a legendary moment.
It is not shooting !!
So this happened like a domino effect. Cool!
Mr. Ceausescu was a great patriot
if that man were alive in this year 2023, then he would have prevented Romanian entry into the very pervert and Satanic European Union
@@Trancymindit did, but not like that. Romania was the last of the revolutions of the 1980s--Poland had a long struggle with Solidarity and the Baltic Republics of the USSR had been agitating for years. In November of 1989 the Berlin Wall fell and Czechoslovakia's communist government was done away with, too. Ceaucescu's overthrow happened right before Christmas. Besides being the last, it was also the ONLY violent revolution of that group. Why is still kind of uncertain but a commonly accepted theory proposed by political scientists and historians is that the regime of Ceaucescu was so brutal that the populace had to use a proportionate amount of violence to get rid of him.
However, to compare this to the end of communism in CZ just doesn't really work. CZ was much more industrialized and... civilized than Romania was. Things were pretty calm there, even in 1989. The Czechoslovak revolution was called The Velvet Revolution for a reason. The workers in Czechoslovakia may have whistled and protested but that's about all that happened.
The Velvet Revolution,
My dad went skiing in Romania in 1987/1988. His whole group was followed constantly by the secret police and a revolutionist set himself on fire near the ski resort in protest of the regime. Scary times
Secret police, meaning single digit IQ nobodies having an ID which supposedly allows them to do ANYTHING. Makes sense.
I imagine Romania would’ve been very similar to North Korea back then
@@chrislouis7913 I think albania was even worse than romania during this time
Well James, I'd follow you too.
I suppose he was in Poiana Brasov, since that was the most famous skiing resort back than. In the city of Brasov there were big protests already in 1987, that almost sparked a revolution. But this time they were still able to shoot it down and it did not spread to other cities. Possibly your father was there just a few weeks after these events.
An artist friend of mine lived in Yugoslavia during the time of Ceausescu. He told me that he would travel to Romania sometimes because art supplies were very cheap in Bucharest. He told me that people on the street walked about in abject misery; a look of sheer misery on every one of their faces. He would see a Romanian soldier from time to time make an appearance and people would scatter in panic. The soldier had a face that showed hatred for every thing and every one. Like a vicious hound!
Theyre all filled with Nothing but hate and violence. Its their character and values.
@@petekdemircioglu That's not true. The soldiers for example did not hate anyone, they were mostly village boys in their 20's who had nothing to do with communism and just wanted to go back home. It was the "Securitate" (secret services) men that indeed were cruel, they were the hardliners. My father was in the army at that time and he said everyone there hated Ceaușescu. He is a very kind and warm man, but he said that if he was in the platoon that executed Ceaușescu, he wouldve fired without hesitation his entire magazine in him. What you two say about us is absurd, we are kind and welcoming. During those times, most of the soldiers were filled with hate not towards the people, but towards the dictator that made our life hell. I invite you to visit our country and see for yourself how we really are.
@@thepopcornsniper5555 Ofc a turkish person calls romanians full of hate xD
@@lambda2657 Yeah, that too 😁
@@thepopcornsniper5555 you never lived in Romania.
we are blessed to have such footage at our fingertips (literally)
It's crazy to think that Ceausescu had just about every opportunity following this moment to take responsibility and attempt to moderate his policies to appease the uprising, but in nearly every instance he doubled down, accusing his opponents of being "traitors" serving "western interests" right up to his execution.
funny given that ceausescu in spite of being a domestic hardliner was just about the most pro-western leader in the eastern bloc, to the point that there's a lot of evidence to suggest the entire revolution was orchestrated by Soviet intelligence out of fear that he'd try to leave the Warsaw pact
@@silvadyne00 hardly. Silly conspiracy theory.
Well what could he do? He knew he was dead no matter what
Все диктаторы совершают одну и ту же ошибку - им кажется , что они бессмертные и неуязвимые...
Но все они плохо заканчивают свою жизнь. Ничему их история не учит.
Моль также закончит. Гаага , в принципе, неплохой для него вариант. Сука, крассная. Как же я ненавижу этого пидара!
@@Slayer-sr2zm пидар везде видит пидаров, ах ты, проказница
@@Slayer-sr2zm там, где я живу наоборот - повсюду его обожатели .
Причём, разных возрастов.
"Кто, если не он?"
"Россию с колен поднял"
"Только с ним Россию стали уважать и бояться"
А когда их просишь более конкретные примеры привести, то они начинают психовать.
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@@nadiv4 Бояться?! Кого? Эту моль?! Россияне просто по своей натуре ссыкуны и рабы. Вы и Кабздырова боитесь. Мы, воины ВСУ, вас презираем.
@@Slayer-sr2zm ну, украинцы в этом плане ничуть не лучше. Послушайте, что говорит ваш Арестович. Он в открытую говорит, что народ Украины очень истеричный и легко управляемый. И что власть Украины вас, простых украинцев, вообще за людей не считает, а просто использует в своих целях.
Так что особой разницы между двумя этими народами нет. Особенно это становится заметно, когда русские и украинцы обвиняют друг друга в одном и том же. Два не очень любящих думать народа.
So we never got to hear the end of the speech. That must have been frustrating for regular listeners.
actually it was quite satisfying.
actually 90% of the people was taken by force to hear the spech
..0.00% was regular
It’s strange how it all changed in a moment and he realised he was screwed !
It's wonderful isn't it. To see such a nasty piece of work start to get some payback and where it would finally end shortly. I wonder of he knew that his 30 years of living large was going to end like that if he still would've taken the deal.
@@brianwalsh1401 After 50 years, Biden's still corrupt, and stupid.
@Sapnap I don't think that's true....Biden is MUCH more like Ceausescu - completely out of touch with his people, forcing vaccinations, getting out of Afghanistan without telling our allies who had troops there, sending inflation so high people can't afford things like canned soup, and the UA-cam Secret Police and SOcial Media being monitored....and protecting Joe like he's a genius.
Face it, Sapnap - JOEjanHorse is MUCH more Communist than Trump ever was. YOU GOT PLAYED for your vote and you are still in denial!
@@brianwalsh1401 he was just a figurehead for a system that lives on in Romania. the ones pulling his wires are the same ones in charge nowadays. And their children.
@@millenniumman75 Ceausescu was actually intelligent and well spoken, but he is bad as a leader as Biden sure. Biden is a walking mess, he is so dement that he doesnt even know whats going on.
At 1:18 there is a high hissing sound. After that sound, the turmoil starts. On Wikipedia it says it’s a women screaming. But I can’t really make out what it is. Whatever, this is one of the most remarkable moments in history…
I loved how he kept shouting "Keep calm!" hysterically!
He did seem to have run out of ideas by that point.
His prepared speech, such as it was, also lacked content, even by the standards of demagogic politicians.
I liked his wife-a Nobel prize winning chemist! (not). Ceaucescue had chemistry professors write papers for her-she signed them.
sounds like Merkel
I heard she banned Chemists from getting certain products so they got around this by requesting them using scientific names which they knew she wouldn't understand. She then signed them off. Lol. Anyway, all's well that ends well. I'm glad she got a bullet. She deserved nothing less, as did he.
@@andrewuk2683 my chemistry teacher told us about this lol. Ceaușescu's wife was Nobel prized in chemistry but she was actually dumb af
@@fjodordorndorf2706 this is Germany buddy, not Putinstan. There is credibility to our leaders degrees as we actually indict our politicians like Gutenberg and co for their wrongdoings. And unlike Russia degrees in the west actually mirror scientific progress and metrics such as scientific papers released per year unlike Russia where half the population has officially a degree, yet that same population isn't smart enough to bring prosperity to itself.
@@joel.759 She never got a Nobel prize or was a laureate. Can not find any info about that. She did however essentially give herself a Phd in Chemistry, and a number of Romanian honorary titles.
Not so difficult when your husband is the dictator.....
PS: She only ever completed elementary school.
I remember this - I was a child but remember seeing the news but not understanding until years later what happened. The people's revenge for twenty-five years of tyranny.
Cal Devans The Cadre in piss is where he’s at.
@Cal Devans The Cadre People like you would have been the first to end up in the state security prisons under his regime, ignorant bourgeoise wannabe lefty.
@Cal Devans The Cadre Here in Bulgaria is the same.
Everyone blame communists, russian and chinese..... 30 years later!!!
It's not communists, its people who can't admit that they are wrong and has selled their countries for mere yellow coins.
@Gleb B. / Глеб Б. before it was worst, shit everywhere and nobody could escape
@Cal Devans The Cadre Not really lol communists imprisoned other communists or executed them in my country for nothing. Most of our Generals who fought against Hitler were killed by communists.
I dream of a day like this in Egypt
It eventually happened in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.
He was surprised as if he saw the Grim Reaper coming at him!
And it was, in deed.
@Cal Devans The Cadre Exactly. Normal, calm human reaction on an uncommon event. Firstly you realize what is it, and only then you do something.
satori1312 no it was the figure behind the Grim Reaper who had the horns and pitchfork that really got his attention!
My history teacher told us he couldnt belive how much people didnt like him, he was right
I think later he escaped with a helicopter but the pilot 'betrayed' him and landed, in court he was sentenced to death and shot right after
I think the pilot pretended to run out of fuel, Ceacescu tried to get away in an armoured car, but the soldiers driving it surrendered and gave him up at the first opportunity. When your own army sells you out, you done fucked up.
I heard that the reason why he was immediately sentenced to death was that because the party didn’t want him to reveal anybody else who did horrible things like him
Which, if they did it, they would do it to him without blinking
Ahahaha
@@worldcomicsreview354 They are saving themselves from getting Lynched by the public
@@TheIT221 What was there to reveal? they were all hardcore leftists just like stalin & hitler, I.e. socialists. They were all guilty and I'm sure everyone knew it. The difference was, when the time came they at least knew when to fold and cut their losses whereas ceausescu did not.
What impressed me most was Ceausescu's absolute self-assurance and arrogance. It ended badly for him of course (SPOILER: he was caught and executed) but his self-belief in his ability to argue with an angry crowd of thousands just shows you what dictators are made of. Most people would be scared shit but there he is, trying to impose his view on hundreds of thousands...
Im guessing the elites of our current world order will face the same fate when the mass psychosis of COVID comes to an end. People will hang for this.
@@sparkymedic Ive never seen so many people get so riled about about having to do something as tame as wear a mask and regularly wash their hands. Snowflakes. Snowflakes everywhere.
@@signoguns8501 enjoy your totalitarianism.
@@sparkymedic enjoy your delusions
Because when everyone around you tells you how great and wonderful and powerful you are, you begin to believe it - especially as long as that dude was in office. But those people were forced to tell him how great he was, or they’d be sent to the gulags, or just summarily executed. He knew, but he didn’t know
I saw this a long time ago in a video essay about censorship and it really stuck with me. I tried looking for it multiple times only to have it be recommended to me today! What a powerful video!
He sounds like my boss giving an xmas-party speech.
we must be colleagues !
Companies are basically tiny dictatorships, so i'm not surprised at all you feel that way lol
1:22 Ceausescu: Why do I hear boss music?
Lmao
Underrated
ILIESCU and ROMAN approaching
Banjos
@@wyqtor so you know the traitors.
2:20
me when my friend goes afk during the middle of the game
Lmao
😁😂😂😂😂😂😂
Golden comment.
Lmfao
Im still laughing this
The world have many of them now, unfortunately
Some of those are hiden wolfs in sheep cloth pretending they are defenders of freedoms!
Its not just Putin, its Bill Gates aswel, Elon Musk and Joe Biden, and the Obama team, Macron, Von Der Lier, Netaniahu the assasin, Trudeau, they all dictators and criminals of freedoms and the destroyers of democracy, those evils who forced the ppl to get vaccinated with evil tech vaccines, the mark of the beast from the bible!
This will culminate with the destruction of the western civilization, soon will come ww3 and the first targets will be U.S/UK and The Vatican, they will be nuclear ashes, the bible prophecy never fails.
@@AparatorulPoporului
"the bible prophecy never fails"
Which version of Christianity are you referring to?
They are actual destroyers of this world.
All satanic governments everywhere.
@@AparatorulPoporului schizo
@@AparatorulPoporului
The Truth is the truth
¡Have you a very nice night Mr. AparatorulPoporului!
The Great Saint, the Great Valiant and Patriot Mr. Ceacescu defended the authentic National Sovereignty of Romania
Now, in this 2023 age, the very Satanic and pervert euro bureaucracy of the Euroepan Uunion enslaves and subjugates the defenseless people of the Balkans
When the Devilish EU imposes many many obligations on them
However, the pervert EU does not give them rights and treats them like second class european citizens
This is a great video.. I've seen this last speech dozens of times but really enjoyed having the contextual information, different camera angles, etc.
Same. I wonder which documentary this was from!
in short for those Interested in what occurred, there where protests from the crowd, there had been protests in other cities,Timișoara.This appears to be on the 21st Dec 1989, there was sporadic trouble in Bucharest , but the army regained control during the night.
The next day his defence minister killed himself in what appears was a botched suicide , i.e he didn't intend to die.
Ceaușescu was blamed for this which lost him the Army's support, the end result is the crowds angry at this death stormed the building Ceaușescu was in, Ceaușescu managed to escape barely by helicopter with his wife.
They flew to Snagov where he had a residence, they where arrested by the Police and handed over to the Army, that had no faith in him anymore. Ceaușescu was tried in a show trial and executed with his wife by a firing squad on Christmas Day, 4 days after this Video.
Fetesti. On air. Abbomben Paris, now bitte ;)
I love it when a story has a happy ending. His wife also smelled of rotten fish from a first hand account of an army captor. This is true. I saw the interview translated translate it to English. Nasty old woman. In the West we had things that could have taken care of that stank. It's called summers eve
@@daddycj1978 It's said she peed her pants when the helicopter landed, causing the smell. Nasty woman nonetheless.
@@daddycj1978 He looks and acts like president Biden. Completely lost touch with reality.
Now, in 2023, the people of Romania suffer the very extreme cruel tyranny of the Satanic European Union
1:30 When you suddenly realise that you dont have much future left.....
That was just epic.
In 4 days from this speech, the dictator and his wife were executed. Let it be the fate of all dictators.
3*
Also, youtube forced me to change my comment.
I still remember this. Was in high school and sitting at home due to having a spare. In those days there wasn’t anything on tv during the day so watch this dude. Had no idea what I was watching until a few weeks later I saw him on the news saying they killed him.
Actually from this speech to Ceaucescu's "trial" and execution was only 2 or 3 days. Lightning fast for a revolution! The Romanian people had clearly had enough.
That "Alo!" sounds as if it is replayed times and times all over again
Te-am găsit și aici
I remember all this well even though I was just a child when this happened, next he tried to make his escape in a helicopter, but the pilot and crew delivered him not to safety but to a peoples tribunal where him and his wife were found guilty and duly sentenced to death... Yes I remember it all as if it was yesterday
The tribunal was a military one that was composed of generals who repressed by fire the demonstrations in city of Timisoara and by his death sentence they tried to cover up their guilt..
Same thing will happen with Putler
@@silviuqay well if he was given to the people they would've killed him nontheless
Aw wao! Interesting! I did not know that. Brave people in Romania! Greetings from Hingary
I remember he was executed on Christmas Day 1989, which meant that television that day was really odd. Adverts for Crocodile Dundee and the Russ Abbot Christmas Show interspersed with footage of Ceausescu and his wife lying dead in a schoolroom.
I was studying international relations at uni in Uppsala, Sweden when this happened and "the wall" came down. Our course material had to be updated almost daily. World events were our best teacher. Best time of my student days and very emotional. May Romania stay free and prosper.
"Smithers, are they booing me?"
"Uh no, they are saying '"boo-urns, boo-urns."
A Ceaucescu for all Seasons ! 😂
1:23 is such an dreadful moment, we hear screams and only see reaction of Ceausescu. A mass hysteria just sweeping through the streets suddenly with all bottled emotions bursting out from oppressed people.
You might call it dreadful others might call it an amazing moment of karma.
@@brianwalsh1401 Well Screw You!
@@brianwalsh1401 Says you!
Absolutely fascinating, misuse of power finally being dealt with. Beware leaders all around the globe.
They don't learn from this. You can't tell a narcissists or a sociopath anything because they know everything. Ask the people that tried to consul 45 US pres. anything. Fougettaboutit.
@@brianwalsh1401 You are one President off - you were listening to American Communist Propaganda (LEFT wing!). 46 is the real problem.....we are living our own version of Ceausescu now. Have you noticed that as immigrants with Corona flood the border....he blames that state for a rise in cases - it was his own doing! The media is focused on what ice cream flavor he chose to eat! Wake up!
@@brianwalsh1401 Maybe you're right, Ceausescu is closer to 45. He wouldn't tolerate scum entering illegaly in his country. He wouldn't tolerate a group burning and looting whole cities. He wouldn't tolerate 900 USD theft as a misdemeanor and police closing its eyes. He wouldn't accept losing strategic independence to another country (most medicines from USA are made in China, whole industries moved overseas). He wouldn't accept getting a diploma without knowing how to read and do some basic math. Actually, 46 is taking all the wrong measures Ceausescu took, but you are too blind to see.
LOL. the irony with your judgement nessie. I LOVE IT LOL. keep being you imo and thanks lololol
they betrayed a patriot what a shame
A friend of mine, who worked in political analysis once said - totalitarian regimes can last for a long time, but they might break down in one day. Democratic regimes may not last very long, but they will break down very slowly. Ceausescu vs Tito is a very good example of that. Gorbachev too.
The Iron Curtain fell relatively fast during a period I hadn't access to TV or newspaper. Those events were a bit unbelievable for me having the cemented idea of the big enemy in the east for all those years. In Hungary the transition was peacefully during a period of months; in East Germany it was in weeks and only in Romania there was heavy fighting. It later became clear that the ones who took power there were all previous party members who weren't exactly innocent as well.
Dear romanian neighbours,
You can be proud. Bravery and dignity.
Seconded! You guys are badasses. You deserve all of the good things now.
👍👍👍👍❤
@@gutsfinky Do you realize that this is NOTHING to celebrate?
@@JSSMVCJR2.2 huh? I'm complimenting the brave Romanian men and women who stood up to this madman.
@@gutsfinky even the firing squad?
Learn russian and belarusan people, learn. It's so easy to overthrow a dictator. All that is needed is your will.
Pretty much all of Belarus speak Russian anyways. The Belarusian language is endangered really.
Idiot
But Russians support Putin
Your forgot what the 90s and Yeltzin looked like, that’s real democracy that’s is what the west actually delivers to people.
That is what it actually looks like for the majority of the planet for Africa, Asia and Latin America that’s all the US and Western European satellites have bought to the world
1:28 and it was at that moment, Ceausescu knew his time was up.....
@Cal Devans The Cadre
He means he's time in power is up.
@Cal Devans The Cadre the funny part is, we're about as irrelevant as they come, but we dont match you.
@Cal Devans The Cadre they never were
This was the best film quality I’ve ever seen of this. I’d love to see the whole documentary in this quality. In the early 90’s, PBS showed a documentary on this, which I’ve always wanted to see again, but can’t recall which one it was. There are several out there, but most have terrible film quality.
While this was a short clip, the quality was great. Thank you for posting.
The PBS documentary is titled Kiss The Hand You Cannot Bite.
@@keithdoran89
Keith,
Thank you so much! Man, I appreciate that very much.
I’ve always wanted to watch it again.
I’ll just have to see where it is available.
Cheers, from Texas
@@Shaken_AND_Stirred ua-cam.com/video/x224czRmdiU/v-deo.html and ua-cam.com/video/NLfZWGOZ03Q/v-deo.html may well have what you need in parts one and two.
@@Shaken_AND_Stirred Hi, please do let us know if you find a link so we can watch it as well, I will do the same
@@Kibbe_Surdo
I have never been able to find the original PBS/Frontline documentary on Ceausescu. There are still several good ones to watch though.
This 1990 ABC News Nightline documentary with Ted Koppel is a good one. ua-cam.com/video/D8DQ-Axi1V0/v-deo.html
“Death Of A Dictator” is a good one. ua-cam.com/video/7aEzLJdzi9w/v-deo.html
“Rise And Fall of Nicolas Ceausescu” is a good one as well. ua-cam.com/video/KlzpR8GNwWA/v-deo.html
The film quality is fairly decent on these, and between them, you’ll glen basically what was from the original Frontline/PBS documentary. At least I did.
Cheers
For those who have come here not knowing the context in which the speech was given, Ceauseşcu was reacting to public upheaval, both as a result of growing unrest in the eastern bloc and off the back of a massacre in Timişoara, the site of the first uprising in Romania.
Workers were forced to attend under threat of being fired. They were also told when and what to chant in response to Ceauseşcu's words. Too little too late for Ceauseşcu and his wife. This speech took place four days before their attempt at escape, which as we all know, was thwarted. They were hurriedly given a show trial, found guilty and executed.
The brutality of Ceauseşcu surpassed even the most violent standards, so to speak, of other Soviet regimes.
Who gives a FU*k
If anyone ever deserved the treatment, or payback, or karma for their sins and crimes it was this man. (And his sorry wife)
I would like to point that Ceaușescu regime was not an extreme of brutality. An average dictator. From my perspective as Romanian he was shot cos of food and basic good shortage in peace time. While not being under any sanctions. Payed external debt in 5 years with a slight proffit over paying in a longer period to avoid financial shock. He took decisions like that by himself, alienating communist party leadership and at that point he could have been the nicest guy in the world, it didn't matter. The ideea is to not alienate everybody at once. He managed to do exactly that without being especially brutal.
To understand the situation better, communism is more like a republic then a kingdom. Communists do not appreciate a guy who wants to rule for life. So yep, he alienated the public with communist economic policies and alienated his fellow communist high rank officials with concentrating too much power for too long. Zero support
@@markberryhill2715 translation: it’s okay when we do it or benefita me
Ceausescu should've sung from the podium "don't cry for me, Romania. the truth is I never left you."
He sang during his execution.
Him yelling 'Alo' is like a teacher who cant keep the class quiet
I used to have Romanian neighbours in the block of flats I used to live in. Heard 'Alo' a lot if they were trying to attract attention, or if they were having a boisterous party and so on.
Imagine what it's gonna look like when this happens in North Korea.
in USA more likely...first go down statues...then White House .... US empire collapsing..
Jake Fettes the security is much tighter
@@sinphus There's also much more people. There's also supposedly evidence of growing dissension t wothin the ranks.
Jake Fettes the only way i can see a revolution anytime soon is when a natural disaster happens or they are starving again because of incompetence
@trosky677 Shit definitely needs to change around here, that's for sure
1:26 the legendary moment
Why do they start booing at this exact moment?
@@SilverWave64 they finally had enough
A Romanian guy at work tells me that at the time he was toppled, Ceaucescu had reduced Romania's foreign debt to zero
Yes, this is true, but this reduction was paid by the starving and freezing people while he wasted money for his family and personal palace.
@mangomerkel2005 Good point
If only he said Hello one more time.
Alo*
I think it's shows his paternal, condescending attitude with the people. He's like, OMG dealing with the masses AGAIN!?🙄
I like the Narrator's voice - VERY calm and professional. Thank you for the English translation. I LOVE learning about Romania and her people.
The very worst Karma is to succeed (in illusion really) on the wrong path. No matter how poor or difficult life is, with an intact soul, you are in a far, far better place than NC.
Strong&Free, Well said . . .
4:02 Ceausescu doesn't say "This is a challenge.", he says "Is this a joke?"
I came here after reading Homo Deus. Just finished the page and came to UA-cam.
Yep same, reading it now