Sadly, there are plenty of people who remember the regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu fondly today. There’s only one reason for it, either they were too young to have experienced it for themselves, or they were part of the regime itself. Famine, fear, and terrorism were the tools of the Ceaușescu regime. These people are well fed today. Unlike most of Central and Eastern Europe, there was no accountability for those who terrorized their own nation of Romania during that era, and many of them still have jobs in the public administration today.
mybrother keeper you’re right. People who live there still have the same people in the administration. Why would they endanger their own and their loved one’s lives? People who speak out after totalitarian regimes are the bravest people I’ve ever met.
mybrother keeper I think they just want to forget. It was what happened in eastern Germany. They were kept repressed and didn’t want to even talk about it. Reminded me a great deal of concentration camp survivors who rarely if ever talked about their experiences for sometimes decades, sometimes forever. One giant case of Stockholm Syndrome.
Gabriel Gherasim interesting video. I’ve experienced the “joy” of communism by living in West Berlin from 1987-1992. The Germans voted with their feet until the wall went up, and when they had the chance to end their savage oppression in 1989, they jumped at the chance and put their particular brand of totalitarianism where it belonged, in the dustbin of history. I believe that we should be careful to not lump democratic socialist nations like the U.K., and most of not all of the EU into the same basket though. There’s something to be said for curtailing the excesses of vulture capitalism to ensure we don’t end up in a new totalitarian state, with communists replaced with oligarchs as has happened in Russia. There’s a world of difference between those nations. Thanks for your post and I will be reading more of your take on the subject. 👍
Sadly, there are plenty of people who remember the regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu fondly today. There’s only one reason for it, either they were too young to have experienced it for themselves, or they were part of the regime itself. Famine, fear, and terrorism were the tools of the Ceaușescu regime. These people are well fed today. Unlike most of Central and Eastern Europe, there was no accountability for those who terrorized their own nation of Romania during that era, and many of them still have jobs in the public administration today.
David: Amazing how little interest in learning the communist excesses...very few videos, very few comments. A billion stories left unsaid, unheard.
mybrother keeper you’re right. People who live there still have the same people in the administration. Why would they endanger their own and their loved one’s lives? People who speak out after totalitarian regimes are the bravest people I’ve ever met.
mybrother keeper I think they just want to forget. It was what happened in eastern Germany. They were kept repressed and didn’t want to even talk about it. Reminded me a great deal of concentration camp survivors who rarely if ever talked about their experiences for sometimes decades, sometimes forever. One giant case of Stockholm Syndrome.
David Strohl: I’ve never Heard that explanation before. I will take it ‘under advisement.’
Thanks!
Gabriel Gherasim interesting video. I’ve experienced the “joy” of communism by living in West Berlin from 1987-1992. The Germans voted with their feet until the wall went up, and when they had the chance to end their savage oppression in 1989, they jumped at the chance and put their particular brand of totalitarianism where it belonged, in the dustbin of history. I believe that we should be careful to not lump democratic socialist nations like the U.K., and most of not all of the EU into the same basket though. There’s something to be said for curtailing the excesses of vulture capitalism to ensure we don’t end up in a new totalitarian state, with communists replaced with oligarchs as has happened in Russia. There’s a world of difference between those nations. Thanks for your post and I will be reading more of your take on the subject. 👍