Nicolae Ceausescu LAST SPEECH (english subtitles) 1/2

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  • @sportshistorybuff
    @sportshistorybuff 5 років тому +2444

    The shock had to be massive for this guy. The A&E documentary said this speech was the first time he ever heard boos from an audience. If only every dictator faced such a moment of justice and truth.

    • @borinakoune1803
      @borinakoune1803 5 років тому +112

      Well the only way to swing a revolution in the people's favor is when the army backs you up. That's why Cuntisescu was scared.

    • @spektrumyt.
      @spektrumyt. 4 роки тому +53

      The late Ceausescu was a failure. The earlier version of him was a hero.

    • @MrBungleish
      @MrBungleish 4 роки тому +77

      @@spektrumyt. a hero? A FREAKING HERO?! The man who was responsible for mass surveillance, severe repression and human rights abuses, the man who suppressed and controlled the media and press, the man who mismanaged oil ventures throwing Romania in huge debt, who then exported almost all of the country's production in an effort to repay said debt, leading to drastically lowered living standards and freakin' food, water, oil, heating, electricity and medicine rationing was a hero? Are you out of your mind?!?
      You goddamn communists make me sick.

    • @spektrumyt.
      @spektrumyt. 4 роки тому +8

      @@MrBungleish and you goddamn nationalists make me sick with your slanders and lies.

    • @MrBungleish
      @MrBungleish 4 роки тому +50

      @@spektrumyt. you're not even Romanian, you clown! You have no idea what my family endured during the communist regime. Yet you have the audacity to answer back instead of apologizing!!!

  • @BHuang92
    @BHuang92 6 років тому +1254

    The fear and downfall of tyrants is when their people are no longer afraid of them.

    • @jaymtl79
      @jaymtl79 4 роки тому +20

      Lol. And now Trump is about to face the same thing. Lol

    • @jordanxfile
      @jordanxfile 4 роки тому +2

      I wish this were a tweet, so I could retweet it.

    • @tankista5885
      @tankista5885 4 роки тому +21

      @@jaymtl79 no

    • @Toten1316
      @Toten1316 4 роки тому +24

      jaymtl79 86.4 million of his followers on twitter disagree with you

    • @antoniosilvestro2494
      @antoniosilvestro2494 4 роки тому +5

      sick dictators are protected by sick people and then replaced with more sick leaders by the people who protected their previous leaders.

  • @finden3362
    @finden3362 4 роки тому +752

    As someone said: this moment of history is very underrated

    • @OzzyOscy
      @OzzyOscy 2 роки тому +3

      Wow UA-cam, you're even resorting to calling dictator speeches "underrated"

    • @finden3362
      @finden3362 2 роки тому +26

      @@OzzyOscy underrated because its not a very well know event, maybe it is well know to Europeans

    • @OzzyOscy
      @OzzyOscy 2 роки тому +3

      @@finden3362 JFC it's a political speech and moment of history, not a song or TV character.

    • @finden3362
      @finden3362 2 роки тому +1

      @@OzzyOscy 🤔 maybe i should have said that this was a interasting (people raising against dictator) and not well know event

    • @cleric4265
      @cleric4265 2 роки тому +5

      Putin’s next

  • @16semiquavers
    @16semiquavers 2 роки тому +544

    Love the way he addresses them as "revolutionaries" at the beginning 😂

    • @aleksandarvil5718
      @aleksandarvil5718 2 роки тому +42

      Heath Ledger!Joker : *A Very Poor Choice of Words !!*

    • @nathanseper8738
      @nathanseper8738 Рік тому +24

      @@aleksandarvil5718 Ceausescu: I didn't mean revolt against me! Guys?!!

    • @AbrahamCasillas-t3o
      @AbrahamCasillas-t3o 5 місяців тому

      He also talks about unity!

    • @1984isnotamanual
      @1984isnotamanual 4 місяці тому +2

      Communist rhetoric lol but funny considering the situation

    • @frankschapmire1471
      @frankschapmire1471 2 місяці тому

      They're all the same today.

  • @DMS-pq8
    @DMS-pq8 7 років тому +2349

    One minute he's the master of his world and the next he's a confused old man shouting hello over and over

    • @humanforfreedom9583
      @humanforfreedom9583 5 років тому +175

      He’s saying “alo” which means “hey”

    • @aleksandarvil5718
      @aleksandarvil5718 5 років тому +72

      *_ALO!_*

    • @realniggashit3
      @realniggashit3 5 років тому +92

      He and his wife were murdered 4 days later this speech

    • @vernonbrowne6127
      @vernonbrowne6127 5 років тому +176

      @@realniggashit3: They were rightfully executed.

    • @realniggashit3
      @realniggashit3 5 років тому +95

      @@vernonbrowne6127 LOL the very people who executed them were their henchmen and kept their power. People like Ion Iliescu were no better than Ceausescu.

  • @sfz82
    @sfz82 8 років тому +4666

    Harari brought me here

  • @amirpasha5464
    @amirpasha5464 6 років тому +1715

    I am from Sudan. My father was working there as a diplomat. I was within 5 kilometers within the event and can recollect hearing the chants

    • @yogasamsu
      @yogasamsu 6 років тому +30

      You must be old man right now ;p

    • @dimitrisgiannakidis32
      @dimitrisgiannakidis32 6 років тому +6

      Amir Pasha You know what exactly happen there during the speech? Appeared people with guns ?

    • @dimitrisgiannakidis32
      @dimitrisgiannakidis32 5 років тому +30

      Hector Herrera oh !!! I see !!here in Greece the tv Chanel’s said 5 days before those speeche ,that everything is all ready done !!! The communist is dead in Romania

    • @Ghxidaa
      @Ghxidaa 5 років тому +5

      عقبال السودان ..

    • @mysoncrumphaseveryinjury3853
      @mysoncrumphaseveryinjury3853 5 років тому +5

      I wonder if the moment of Omar Al Bashir being overthrown sounded similiar

  • @roydengomes8660
    @roydengomes8660 2 роки тому +237

    Read about this moment in Yuval Noah Harari’s Home Deus.
    “Communist Romania crumbled when 80,000 people in the Bucharest central square realised they were much stronger than the old man in the fur hat on the balcony.”

    • @jhh444
      @jhh444 8 місяців тому +7

      Justo vine por eso a recordar lo que hace tiempo no veía.

    • @NoWorkRecords
      @NoWorkRecords 7 місяців тому

      Well not really, we still do not know what happened in 1989. Russia got involved of course. We might never know the truth.

    • @artv.9989
      @artv.9989 6 місяців тому

      The CIA was kind of behind all of it

    • @mojewjewjew4420
      @mojewjewjew4420 6 місяців тому

      thats not true,the army and security turned on him at the behest of Russia and America.

    • @mojewjewjew4420
      @mojewjewjew4420 6 місяців тому

      @@NoWorkRecords .

  • @TeodorLojewski
    @TeodorLojewski 4 роки тому +336

    At 2:56 you can hear a man saying “Să vină tancurile!”. That means “Bring out the tanks!”. He didn’t realise all the crowd and television heard him because of the microphone.

    • @ShishiSonson
      @ShishiSonson 4 роки тому +11

      No you can't hear it.

    • @demonsandotherblessings6387
      @demonsandotherblessings6387 4 роки тому +85

      @@ShishiSonson You can hear it if you are a native romanian speaker. It's just muffled.

    • @vyrva5690
      @vyrva5690 3 роки тому +6

      @@ShishiSonson i heard it

    • @ShishiSonson
      @ShishiSonson 3 роки тому +20

      @@vyrva5690 I can hear "să vine", but not tancurile.

    • @imberus5801
      @imberus5801 3 роки тому

      HOLY SHIT TEODOR HAHAHAH

  • @corinam.2633
    @corinam.2633 5 років тому +355

    I was a kid when he died, do not remember much of him, but still this video brings shivers to my spine.

    • @mithunsivan1989
      @mithunsivan1989 3 роки тому +3

      I was juz 4 months old !!

    • @florinpana67
      @florinpana67 2 роки тому +17

      @@mithunsivan1989 I was 21. I wouldn't assume any merit as revolutionary as I wasn't one of them. But I can tell you, at that very moment the young people took the faith on their hands and oppose for the first time to a maleficent regime. All those who claims that on those times was better than today are either exponents of former regime or to young to understand what is real communism. All of those persons cry after Ceausescu and blame its swift execution. However, nobody remember or refer to hundreds/thousands dissidents slowly executed by the Securitate and communist regime in Romania. Yes, the life is hard in Romania. But, if I would come to be pleased for a piece of bread instead of freedom, I would call once again for a revolution in Romania, irrespective the costs.

    • @Trancymind
      @Trancymind Рік тому

      Communism killed so many people, caused genocides and cannibalism. Communism killed more civilians during the 20th century than all the people that died during WW2.

    • @ShailendraSINGH-jk2ev
      @ShailendraSINGH-jk2ev 8 місяців тому

      u foooool@@florinpana67

  • @ronniegonzalez8622
    @ronniegonzalez8622 9 років тому +562

    Man that look on his face is chilling. It's like he cannot comprehend what is happening. As it dawns on him he cannot control the situation he looks pathetic. This is wonderful and terrible at the same time.

    • @jasonivancontreras9340
      @jasonivancontreras9340 9 років тому +30

      Yeah sort of like Americans when they realize how hypocritical their state is.

    • @DavidFobare
      @DavidFobare 2 роки тому +44

      Mostly wonderful.
      Nicolae has an inkling. Elena is still clueless. And was, right up to the moment the final bullet entered her.
      It's fun to see communists get their just desserts.

    • @hollywoodhh5646
      @hollywoodhh5646 2 роки тому

      @@jasonivancontreras9340 they are too stupid to realize it.

    • @JamesSmith-rh4is
      @JamesSmith-rh4is 2 роки тому +1

      Dictators come in all shapes and sizes.

    • @garciansmith1460
      @garciansmith1460 Рік тому

      @@DavidFobare eh, not all communists. These were deeply evil fascists that brought utter ruin to nearly everyone in the country

  • @BleakVision
    @BleakVision 2 роки тому +523

    I am fascinated by the language. It‘s so close to Latin it‘s amazing. It‘s like the pope is giving a speech.

    • @5stars922
      @5stars922 Рік тому +92

      It’s a latin language .

    • @E.C.2
      @E.C.2 Рік тому +47

      Are Romanians literally descended from Roman citizens,modern Italy? Romanian is a romance language.

    • @E.C.2
      @E.C.2 Рік тому +5

      @@kolbergtuis2991 I meant Romans but used to Italy for a easier comparison. Thank you.

    • @rustomkanishka
      @rustomkanishka Рік тому +4

      Yes! But it doesn't sound like church Latin.

    • @E.C.2
      @E.C.2 Рік тому +6

      Ecclesiastical Latin*

  • @dascalnad
    @dascalnad 10 років тому +2307

    Hello guys, I'm from Romania and I'll tell you what "hallo" means.
    1. It's not "hallo" or "halo".
    It's "alo"
    "Alo" means "Hey?".
    2. "Alo" is useful when someone is not listening and you want their attention.

    • @thepumpkingking8339
      @thepumpkingking8339 10 років тому +111

      Makes this part of the speech. From an English speaking perspective understandable. As the translation shown here make it look like his microphone was not working. If you catch my drift.

    • @dascalnad
      @dascalnad 9 років тому +10

      The Pumpking King Sure I did. Sorry for my late answer :p

    • @RawDoggin_78
      @RawDoggin_78 7 років тому +26

      Bogdan Dascal the word "alo"is also on turkish langauge and it is used the same as your langauge

    • @adriennesaffer351
      @adriennesaffer351 7 років тому +14

      Baris Cankaya
      Was that part of Romania occupied by the Ottoman Turks? Hungarians were occupied by the Ottoman Turks for almost 2 centuries,
      9% of the Hungarian language is Turkish loan words.

    • @RawDoggin_78
      @RawDoggin_78 7 років тому +4

      wow is the %9 percentage proven or ur lying :D

  • @99aa4
    @99aa4 7 років тому +1276

    I'm a huge history buff of European history from the nazi period up to the fall of the ussr! This moment right here has fascinated me for years! We all hear and read about how the different regimes of the era came to an end but to see it play out before your eyes is chilling!! This guy was literally "the man" for 42 years and within a matter of seconds it's all over! To see the look of fear and confusion on his face when he realizes his gig is up is so haunting! It's just so unique and amazing to watch this unfold right before our eyes and his! Definitely one of the most interesting parts of history during that time!

    • @ralphzamoyski2807
      @ralphzamoyski2807 6 років тому +59

      You damm right Paulie, It is awesome to see this changes on his face and the clueless reaction. I grew up in Poland, and however Polish socialism wasn't that harsh, due to the character of Polish people, that are in most parts more rebellious than others, huge polish diaspora in the west etc., I truly hate communists because I saw the damage they did to many countries, my family and families of other people, the totalitarian style of governance and more and more reasons you could give and discuss. Another example of that communist evil ideology is Venezuela. What those bandits do to once such a awesome country is beyond comprehension. People killed, starved, kids dying of malnutrition... it just make you angry and on the other hand makes you powerless and wondering why, for what reason it is happening,and the worst is seeing the world doing very little to help. Americans, Russians, Syria entire Middle East screwed for interests of a group of selfish people, Perhaps I am too old to comprehend all that.

    • @Ceausescu_Nicolae
      @Ceausescu_Nicolae 6 років тому +27

      This guy rise up the country and was "the man" between 1966-1989. Not 42 years. And what this guy do in this time for his country was awesome. In 30 years after that, Romania was destroyed. We didn't kill him. Russia,USA an England kill him. Is no future without sacrifice. We must understand that. How many soldiers died in Vietnam,Irak,Siria,etc to maintain economy of USA. Ceausescu did't attack other people. He starved his own country...

    • @TypOPositiv
      @TypOPositiv 6 років тому +25

      I'll tell you what's amazing...He banned abortion approx. 17-20 years prior. By doing so, he didn't realize he was committing to his own downfall. Those teenagers (highschool and college individuals) who took to the streets and protested; demanding his execution could have been prevented!
      Had he not banned abortion, those individuals would not have been the death of him. That is what I call IRONY!

    • @davidgreen5994
      @davidgreen5994 5 років тому +18

      ​@@Ceausescu_Nicolae He didn't do shit. Romania was developed under Dej and Maurer, Ceausescu ruined everything they build. We need to stop with this myth of Ceausescu building Romania. He didn't do crap. He just continued what his predecessors did - build industry and shit, on borrowed money. Then the check had come on his term, and he was unable to pay because his economic policies were a total failure, and from then on started the austerity. This is the ''awesome'' truth about the Ceausescu regime... it's so sad that instead of making this clear in school and society we let this mythology build around him.

    • @davidgreen5994
      @davidgreen5994 5 років тому +21

      @@TypOPositiv Uh? What? It had nothing to do with abortions, and nobody protested against him or asked for his death for death... peoples were too cold and too hungry to care about that.

  • @dakota9862
    @dakota9862 6 років тому +120

    "a warm greetings, revolutionary! along with best wishes for success in all fields!"
    Took less than a minute for him to regret that one.

  • @Peppermint1
    @Peppermint1 Рік тому +99

    What you don't see in the film is that right when he restarts the speech, after the confusion in the crowd, a part of the crowd had already regrouped 400 meters away, near the Intercontinental Hotel (PIata Universitatii) and was already rallying against Ceausescu. You can see footage for that in videos named "21 decembrie 1989 Piata Universitatii"

  • @dams6829
    @dams6829 4 роки тому +417

    This happened today 30 years ago.

    • @cvijetinglisic8368
      @cvijetinglisic8368 4 роки тому +3

      @Vojnik SFRJ dal si normalan. Ljudi su sedmicno dobijali 2 jajeta i 2 hleba. Ko god je pokusao da pobegne iz drzave bio je ubijen kao svinja. Sve sto kaze Caucesku je tako ili si mrtav covek. Narod je bio puka sirotinja dok su ova dva kretena imala 50 vila i milijarde u svajcarskoj banci. Ako ti se svidja ovaj rezim idi slobodno u Severnu Koreju pa tamo zivi. Verovatno je u Koreji i bolje nego sto je tad u Rumuniji bilo.

    • @adrianconstantin5622
      @adrianconstantin5622 4 роки тому +6

      @Vojnik SFRJ , aaaand FK communism and the communist criminals! :)
      Romania is a much better place and without communist and socialists would be great.

    • @TAGMATAGMATON
      @TAGMATAGMATON 4 роки тому +12

      @Vojnik SFRJ At least Romania is now a DEMOCRATIC place! And that is a very great progress!

    • @Ida-xe8pg
      @Ida-xe8pg 4 роки тому +2

      That bitch gave his last speech on my Birthday.

    • @arandomlanguagenerd1869
      @arandomlanguagenerd1869 4 роки тому +6

      @@TAGMATAGMATON It doesnt make much difference, democracy hasnt helped romania

  • @markdomingo4035
    @markdomingo4035 5 років тому +765

    I was here 2019.. because of Prof Harari in his bestseller book Homo Deus.😌

  • @MrLeckey
    @MrLeckey 10 років тому +1551

    One of my favourite moments of history, right there at 2:37. The moment a Dictator realises he is no longer feared.

    • @VIRIATO1995
      @VIRIATO1995 10 років тому +33

      Sweet

    • @SeanP7195
      @SeanP7195 9 років тому +146

      Mark Leckey Did you see the look on his face? It was priceless, I would love so many in this world, banking cartels, the FED, people who have all the power and destroy us while smiling to have that same look on the face. BTW, if you are a liberal, you will have that look soon.

    • @heiderpena7954
      @heiderpena7954 9 років тому +3

      Mark Leckey yeah!! exciting

    • @jasonivancontreras9340
      @jasonivancontreras9340 9 років тому +24

      Lol liberals

    • @FastidiosoRemo
      @FastidiosoRemo 7 років тому +21

      Captitalism is the best

  • @saumyayadav8434
    @saumyayadav8434 2 роки тому +90

    His face says it all.... In the matter of seconds the whole world he created has fallen

  • @sanguineel
    @sanguineel 4 роки тому +803

    World leaders should be sat down and forced to watch this on a monthly basis.

  • @joannaluca8495
    @joannaluca8495 5 років тому +368

    I was 12 years old, back then, in Romania. It was a wonderful day, words cannot explain it.

    • @cacophonousantiquarian8803
      @cacophonousantiquarian8803 2 роки тому +51

      It is a rare moment indeed when a dictator loses all control.

    • @priley218
      @priley218 2 роки тому +7

      The look on his face when the people turned on him

    • @danielfl.9347
      @danielfl.9347 2 роки тому +1

      Do you know if some misses him today?

    • @factcheckingyourmum
      @factcheckingyourmum 2 роки тому

      ​@@danielfl.9347 Yes, stupid people. Sadly the regime in Romania is pretty awful now too, so this is where the confusion comes frlm

    • @TonyFontaine1988
      @TonyFontaine1988 2 роки тому +1

      Yes and now the Americans and Germans rule you

  • @turdferguson2
    @turdferguson2 10 років тому +1501

    he didn't say "hallo" enough times that's why he got killed

    • @Pinggagio
      @Pinggagio 9 років тому +15

      +turdferguson2 hahahhaahahahhahhaaahahahhaahaahhahha

    • @1mercantolga
      @1mercantolga 8 років тому +6

      +Pinggagio this is funny

    • @alexandramihalache4641
      @alexandramihalache4641 7 років тому +109

      It's not "hallo". It is actually "alo" and is equivalent to "hey" in english. We, romanians, use it when we want to draw someone's attention to us because they're not listening.

    • @randyrhoads9133
      @randyrhoads9133 7 років тому +3

      My Orthodox sister!!!

    • @sergiucalin7514
      @sergiucalin7514 7 років тому +1

      Alexandra Mihalache Da numa ca nui place be neu

  • @marcssi606
    @marcssi606 3 місяці тому +34

    This is the way out for Venezuelans and Brazilians

  • @TimEssDub
    @TimEssDub 5 років тому +46

    I watched this unfold on the 6:30PM news in America. I was 12 years old at the time. In less then three months that year, I saw Europe change.

  • @wozzer2727
    @wozzer2727 8 років тому +798

    I bet when Ceaucescu got up that morning and put on his suit he didn't realise he'd be shot and buried in it!

    • @AshleyPomeroy
      @AshleyPomeroy 7 років тому +98

      It's lucky he didn't know - otherwise he might have put on a bulletproof suit.

    • @wozzer2727
      @wozzer2727 7 років тому +15

      Ain't that the truth!

    • @the0to1smell86
      @the0to1smell86 7 років тому +3

      wozzer2727 daymm..

    • @FunkyNoone
      @FunkyNoone 6 років тому

      wozzer2727 l

    • @Deadman6
      @Deadman6 6 років тому +7

      He was tied to a post and used as target for a rifle squad. AIn't no visit in the world savin' you from that.

  • @timoilonen1926
    @timoilonen1926 5 років тому +123

    This is a precious piece of history

  • @vulk7183
    @vulk7183 2 роки тому +58

    A truely chilling and haunting moment of documented history
    I love my continent's history

  • @kent1916
    @kent1916 4 роки тому +203

    I was a part of all of this and experienced All the pain that these poor Romanians had to go through under this dictatorial regime don’t let it happen in this country folks.

    • @malcolmnicoll1165
      @malcolmnicoll1165 2 роки тому +16

      Too late. It seems like nobody has learned.

    • @MK_Ultrautism
      @MK_Ultrautism 2 роки тому

      @@malcolmnicoll1165 but the boot on your neck is rainbow colored! And they have bug burgers to replace the food you cant get now. You don't like that? What are you some sort of nazi? Off to re-education camp for you where you can learn about trans rights.

    • @NO_QUARTER_GIVEN
      @NO_QUARTER_GIVEN 2 роки тому +8

      @@malcolmnicoll1165 Correct. Especially if you just heard Biden's "soul of america" speech. 9/1/22

    • @Nunos645cgh
      @Nunos645cgh Рік тому +5

      @@NO_QUARTER_GIVENu mean trump lol. Thankfully emperor Trump has fallen

    • @gaborfarago4813
      @gaborfarago4813 Рік тому

      Mit ne tegyenek? Hiszen éjjenzik.hazugság az egész.te is hazudol.ugy tették el láb alól hogy előbb ki fizettete az állam adósságot.utolag könnyű pofázni.....

  • @katmac1711
    @katmac1711 12 років тому +126

    amazing footage of an amazing moment in history. Thanks for uploading. Peace to the Romanian people!

  • @david_melech
    @david_melech 4 роки тому +284

    Nicolae Ceaucescu: Hallo!!
    Romanian people: Goodbye!

    • @dans9463
      @dans9463 3 роки тому +7

      Why bring up the Beatles?
      I say hello, you say goodbye

    • @hoodatdondar2664
      @hoodatdondar2664 3 місяці тому

      @@dans9463 I say goodbye, you say *BANG BANG BANG*

  • @user-xs5mn8nf9k
    @user-xs5mn8nf9k 2 роки тому +121

    I was not born at the moment this happened, as I am only 14, but my parents have both lived through and participated in this historic event. I am fondly fascinated by this period of time and this segment specifically marked my introduction to this interest. The fear, the agony, the feeling of despair that he has shown by his eyes is so satisfying, that words could not express it. I've heard stories from left and right about his "glorious era", I have watched previous gatherings from Ceausescu's time, I have read his speeches and national laws and by the end I will continously stand by the statement that he was the biggest fool in all of this. He had completed only 4 classes out of the necessary 12, which only concludes to the perception that he was leaded by other, "smarter" people by the time has met his end. And yet again, I can not stop myself from thinking what it would've been like if he would've stood in his position for even 5-7 years. Fascinating.

    • @confuciuslola
      @confuciuslola Рік тому +2

      do you think that the government still has people leading the country back from his regime?
      Because if they are smart they would probably not draw too much attention to themselves after the Ceauscu's rule ended.

    • @zweihanderu
      @zweihanderu Рік тому +10

      Simti satisfactie prin suferinta omului care ne-a cladit tara si ne-a stabilit locul pe harta lumii? In orice probabilitate avea consilieri, ca efectiv orice alt lider de pe pamant, dar nu cred sub nicio forma ca era prost sau ca era o papusa pentru alti oameni mai “inteligenti”. Uitandu-te la situatia politica si economica curenta, capitalismul ne-a distrut tot ce am construit, prin munca fiecarui roman. Suntem complet distrusi de un sistem anti intelectual care promoveaza numai munca cea mai banoasa. Omul de rand nu are de ales decat sa munceasca ce se plateste mai bine, sau sa moara de foame, iar democratia se aplica numai pentru bogatanii care detin capital. Nu sunt de acord cu tot ce a facut omul asta, dar lovitura de stat a fost un mare pas inapoi pentru poporul roman.

    • @tire26
      @tire26 Рік тому +4

      You're one well read and sharp teenager. Good post.

    • @obliviongigan6360
      @obliviongigan6360 Рік тому +1

      ​​@@zweihanderu Minciuni, communismul a distrus tot ce aveam, capitalismul doar a continuat ce-a ce a fost început de comunism.

    • @stanchpandora3658
      @stanchpandora3658 Рік тому +1

      ​@@obliviongigan6360yall werent even communist lmao

  • @HooDatDonDar
    @HooDatDonDar 5 років тому +560

    Elena Ceausescu: Silence!
    (Three days later)
    Firing Squad: And the same to you!

    • @realniggashit3
      @realniggashit3 4 роки тому +18

      Elena was the real power behind the throne. She's 2 years older than Nicolae and was a Lady Macbeth character.

    • @tasinal-hassan8268
      @tasinal-hassan8268 4 роки тому +34

      @@realniggashit3 Ceaucescu managed to fool everyone by claiming that she was a brilliant scientist lmfao.

    • @mrduck2938
      @mrduck2938 4 роки тому +4

      Comment of the century

    • @perspii2808
      @perspii2808 4 роки тому +4

      HooDatDonDar Yey, making fun of people being executed, so cool amirite

    • @mrduck2938
      @mrduck2938 4 роки тому +12

      @@perspii2808 as if they didn't deserve it?

  • @kuribayashi84
    @kuribayashi84 8 років тому +632

    The moment the screaming started, it was like a mask was being pulled off Ceaucescus' face. All of a sudden, he looked at the same time dismayed, stunned and completely surprised. Like a frightened old man, which he was at that moment.
    I mean, I hold no sympathy for the guy but I find it interesting to try to gauge what is going through such a persons' head. I'm certain that, until that very moment, he (in his own mind) was convinced that he did the right thing and that most people love him. The crowds reaction showed him, for the first time, that the exact opposite was the case.

    • @Jinseual
      @Jinseual 8 років тому +57

      When dictators have an agency that removes people who hates them and publicly only show people who loved them for many years. I think the dictators might have grown accustomed to thinking that their people love them. I'm pretty sure it was a shock to Gaddaffi and Ceausescu when much of their population rose up against them.

    • @ACETYGRA
      @ACETYGRA 7 років тому +36

      Agreed, You could also compare it to when the schoolyard bully finally loses his/her grip on the playground when no one seems to fear them anymore!

    • @skelejp9982
      @skelejp9982 6 років тому +9

      U can see his life was a Dream,far away from reality.
      Then he awakens...
      Back in the Days,I often eat at a Mensa,in a Place also for Foreign Refugees,there I witnessed Romanian High officials seeking Asylum,because they were prosecuted in Romania,after Ceausescu's Empire fell apart...
      Dutch Government offered asylum to Ceausescu's Henchman!

    • @michaelamitulet9801
      @michaelamitulet9801 5 років тому

      @@skelejp9982
      ???? Really???

    • @michaelamitulet9801
      @michaelamitulet9801 5 років тому

      Exactly

  • @dirtboy123100
    @dirtboy123100 8 років тому +222

    I was born in Romania in1990 now adopted . Romanian,Canadian now American .
    Till this day. I still want too meet my parents who put me up for adoption !!!

    • @sbonel3224
      @sbonel3224 8 років тому +44

      damn you're so lucky to have escaped this country so easy...

    • @amaliabarbulescu9377
      @amaliabarbulescu9377 5 років тому +28

      @@sbonel3224 i think you need more informations about this country because you absolutely know nothing about this subject.Every country had her steps to obtain democracy.This escape thing that you are talking about is absolutely bullshit.

    • @camillomancini5619
      @camillomancini5619 5 років тому +25

      Lucky you,,,,maybe your parents couldn't afford to raise you thats why they gave you up for adoption ,,,after communism everyone was poor...Maybe your parents tried their best to feed you but could not continue to put food in your table ....Best of luck

    • @danelirimescu6832
      @danelirimescu6832 4 роки тому +3

      It breaks my heart ! Good luck !

    • @danelirimescu6832
      @danelirimescu6832 4 роки тому +6

      @@sbonel3224 country changed a lot for the better since Ro joined European community

  • @emilymangione7082
    @emilymangione7082 11 місяців тому +18

    I’ve seen this video before, but had to come back and rewatch it. I’m in Bucharest and visited the this square today. What an amazing moment in history.

    • @RobertoAlvarezGalloso
      @RobertoAlvarezGalloso 4 місяці тому

      Same here. I wasnt there present but I listened with my shortwave radio during a Christmas Dinner with my family in Miami. I still remember the faces of my relatives when I told them that the Elephants and Donkeys were the same as the Communists.

  • @BogusOp
    @BogusOp 4 роки тому +38

    I feel that his Generals probably set him up here , maybe sensing the mood in the nation .

  • @tau-ceti
    @tau-ceti 6 років тому +308

    I'd like to know more about what actually happened in the crowd. To my ears it sounds like people are screaming - although as the story goes people were booing / jeering. Fascinating stuff.

    • @zed538
      @zed538 4 роки тому +84

      someone fired a bullet you can hear security tell Ceausescu to go inside

    • @rhadoo4u
      @rhadoo4u 4 роки тому +61

      There was 1-2 petards trowed and one of the 2 things (because there are different oppinions): there was a device that simulated sounds of war (like plane noise, roar, rumble..) or a GELA grenade (flashbang).. and the people was scared and run away from the noise source. Also, in the same time seems that there was few people who shout "Timișoara"

    • @ichabod-thegloryhasdeparte2356
      @ichabod-thegloryhasdeparte2356 3 роки тому +79

      They started chanting Timişoara, which is the name of the town where the security services massacred a bunch of people.

    • @razvandrey3376
      @razvandrey3376 3 роки тому +14

      American spies started everything. They didn’t want Romania to be a communistic state.

    • @Frankszky1923
      @Frankszky1923 3 роки тому +35

      @@razvandrey3376 Lmfao what the fuck are you talking about

  • @Dom_Fabio
    @Dom_Fabio 4 роки тому +72

    "...One minute I held the key
    Next the walls were closed on me
    And I discovered that my castles stand
    Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand..."
    Viva La Vida

    • @nerdstark9002
      @nerdstark9002 4 роки тому +2

      Homo Deus brought me here, Your comment is bringing me to that song. My good night sleep is ruined.

    • @Dom_Fabio
      @Dom_Fabio 4 роки тому

      @@nerdstark9002 oops! :)

    • @estivarzalord7624
      @estivarzalord7624 3 роки тому

      Fuck you

  • @awal7448
    @awal7448 2 роки тому +31

    Fortunately, I am from that generation when I can't realise how much daring it was when first person boed

  • @carloscuevas8053
    @carloscuevas8053 4 роки тому +222

    Homo Deus bring me here. Yuval was so incredible descriptive about THIS moment.

  • @alexnakova2155
    @alexnakova2155 7 років тому +68

    The man who called Ceausescu to come into building was not from Securitate, but was Tudor Postelnicu, Minister of Interior at the time and one of Ceausescu's closest associates.

  • @NMChe56
    @NMChe56 7 років тому +322

    "stay quiet!"
    Romania: nah

    • @alexflaviu7739
      @alexflaviu7739 3 роки тому +9

      We're different😏

    • @josephstalin6315
      @josephstalin6315 3 роки тому

      Still most beloved president

    • @alina2001-g
      @alina2001-g 3 роки тому +4

      @@josephstalin6315 by who?? 😂😂😂 I am roumanian and i can confirm that just The indoctrinated old people approve what did you just said.

    • @sharkronical
      @sharkronical 3 роки тому +1

      @@alina2001-g said Stalin

    • @Catalin-wq9ll
      @Catalin-wq9ll 3 роки тому +1

      yep..look at us now.

  • @Droughtson
    @Droughtson 2 роки тому +17

    I love how they kept reiterating “this great and popular meeting.”

  • @louisjeffs5317
    @louisjeffs5317 4 роки тому +63

    Ceausescu goes from headmaster to hapless supply teacher in the space of a minute.

  • @danielciornei7378
    @danielciornei7378 6 років тому +120

    I like how his wife chimes in and says to be quiet 😂

    • @KeillaSellay
      @KeillaSellay 4 роки тому +13

      @Darth Bane
      She's the prototype Karen.
      Western women have nothing on thus bitch, a master class bitchy Karen.

    • @maxrolland3148
      @maxrolland3148 4 роки тому +7

      Keilla Sellay • Impossible… Karens only speack english…

    • @LeathanL
      @LeathanL 3 роки тому +1

      Cue Jill Biden...

    • @TheBobbymcd
      @TheBobbymcd 3 роки тому +2

      @@LeathanL hillary clinton as well

    • @em-jaytaylor6743
      @em-jaytaylor6743 2 роки тому

      She was Vice President- hence they shot her too. The wife was party to everything

  • @walterlv01
    @walterlv01 5 років тому +89

    A longtime co-worker of mine is from Bucharest and she was there that day - she said that at 7:05 there was a hope in the crowd that maybe, just maybe, he would announce some positive changes which is why the crowd calmed down momentarily to listen to him - but then he just spouted off the same old BS and everyone decided enough was enough.

    • @partylouis9851
      @partylouis9851 2 роки тому +5

      I'm confused, I saw the booing. Then, for the rest of the video and the next, everybody was cheering and he's telling everybody that they're increasing rates and allowances.

    • @MechanizedWerewolf
      @MechanizedWerewolf 2 роки тому +11

      Yeah 2.000 to 2.200 is no change at all.

    • @Slavic-King1917
      @Slavic-King1917 2 роки тому +12

      @@partylouis9851 yea a meger 200 lei at the time was the same as 10 dollars extra a month.......hardly nothing.

    • @E.C.2
      @E.C.2 Рік тому

      I heard a bunch of screaming,sounded like mass suffering. This part is confusing.

  • @molochau.al.8040
    @molochau.al.8040 5 місяців тому +8

    2:44 thats the moment where you see that no one loves you, but your mind cannot believe that

  • @MindViruss
    @MindViruss 6 років тому +27

    I'm Romanian and Homo Deus brought me here. I came to hear the "Taci fă" that Ceaușescu addressed his beloved.

  • @jezfrench9435
    @jezfrench9435 7 років тому +96

    As soon as the mob turns on you, you're gone. Roman emperors found that out very quickly. Bread and circuses:-)

    • @Blue-hf7xt
      @Blue-hf7xt 5 років тому +1

      Jez French
      So it is a repeat cycle.
      Who put them in power?

    • @Colddirector
      @Colddirector 4 роки тому +5

      The mob and the military - those are the two groups you *really* don't want to piss off, especially in a dictatorship.

  • @offbeat65
    @offbeat65 8 років тому +452

    "Communist from Securitate" LOL
    "Capitalist from CIA"
    "Catholic from the Vatican"
    "Vegetarian from the Yoga Class"
    .

    • @noneya9084
      @noneya9084 7 років тому +69

      rulerss The Jews are behind Vegetarians and Yoga classes? Those damn Jews. Trying to stop us from eating meat.

    • @GurkoKurdo
      @GurkoKurdo 7 років тому +3

      Shtwaan E. lol

    • @titiionescu4234
      @titiionescu4234 7 років тому +3

      None Ya
      You`re just a pathetic piece of shit.

    • @georgeednie7723
      @georgeednie7723 6 років тому +10

      I can assure you the eternal Jew is not behind vegetarianism, you weird fuck.

    • @offbeat65
      @offbeat65 6 років тому +1

      @rulerss - What's wrong with you? You haven't got your morning pills?

  • @giorgilabadze4955
    @giorgilabadze4955 2 роки тому +6

    Homo Deus brought me here. Well done Romanian brothers. Love how powerful you have been.

  • @scotcarr3390
    @scotcarr3390 5 років тому +30

    Seeing the Ceaucescus go down this way reminds me of Caligula's observation "let them hate me, so long as they fear me!". True enough.
    It tells you a LOT though when a "leader's" own arrogance leads them to tick off enough people to undo that fear.

    • @horatiohuskisson5471
      @horatiohuskisson5471 4 роки тому +1

      Scot Carr fear is always temporary, that’s the problem

    • @scotcarr3390
      @scotcarr3390 4 роки тому

      @@horatiohuskisson5471 Almost any emotion is temporary. But, I see your point. W/things like "fear", the trick is keeping fear going. When one runs things on fear, the "leader" has to ride the razor's edge of terrifying the common folk & designated flunkies while NOT going too far.
      Once you do cross the line, it makes said folks & flunkies figure that either way, they're screwed. And being screwed by everyone makes one go for the biggest, baddest bad target.
      Also, a "leader" has to maintain the illusion that they're the greatest, most competent person to ever run their country. Dictators have their propagandists working 25 hours a day, 9 to create it. The second a dictator looks less than grand, well, that's another weakness exposed. And if they aren't the "big brother/sister", that also makes them more vulnerable.

    • @funnycat1957
      @funnycat1957 3 роки тому

      Caligula was also the one who advised Tiberius on how to get rid of Sejanus by getting him arrested by his second in command, Macro.

    • @TheBobbymcd
      @TheBobbymcd 3 роки тому

      its happening right now with dirty dan in australia and thats what led me to these 2 evil cnuts

  • @urmomsmysidebitch7142
    @urmomsmysidebitch7142 6 років тому +69

    My Man at 2:53-“I think you’ve lost them sir... I’m out”

  • @keefmeister77
    @keefmeister77 5 років тому +36

    Motivational Speaker Series, Speech #142: "How Not to Address an Angry Crowd."

  • @shandon360
    @shandon360 7 місяців тому +5

    This is so unique and rare to have been filmed I have no idea why it's not talked about more. I am fascinated by this situation and ive tried to find documentaries about it only to find like 2 of them in 240p or something and a few others that are narrated entirely in Romanian with no translation. This event here is so awesome and especially hilarious but I have yet to find a single individual that knows anything about it and the only people ive met that know of him are ppl like my mom (older) but the only thing she knows is his name. Same thing with Chairman Meow cus that's the formal name of my cat and it always brings me great joy when someone laughs out loud when I tell them that's his name. Only one "younger" person has ever understood that pun

  • @shaneg3490
    @shaneg3490 7 років тому +137

    She has such a nice warm motherly voice lol...like nails on a chalk board

  • @cartman1492
    @cartman1492 13 років тому +22

    Thanks for providing this and the translation. The only thing additional I could ask for is a translation of what the crowd is saying at various points.
    I remember hearing a translation of the statement from Romanian State Radio at the time ..... "Ceauşescu the anti-christ is dead." Riveting times back then.

  • @Rasbiff
    @Rasbiff 3 роки тому +78

    *Ceausescu's guide to thwarting a revolution:*
    1. Alo!
    2. Alo!
    3. Alo!
    4. Alo!
    5 Linişte!
    6. Alo!
    7. ???
    8. Run.

    • @rendezzv0uss
      @rendezzv0uss Рік тому +2

      It's "Alo" not "Hallo"

    • @Rasbiff
      @Rasbiff Рік тому

      @@rendezzv0uss It's corrected now;)

  • @ryoncon
    @ryoncon 3 місяці тому +25

    Venezuelans, you guys may learn from this event

    • @hoodatdondar2664
      @hoodatdondar2664 3 місяці тому +1

      Speed the day!

    • @ResistTheGreatReplacementEU
      @ResistTheGreatReplacementEU 3 місяці тому +3

      And the British

    • @germansq76
      @germansq76 2 місяці тому +1

      I just thought about this before reading your post.

    • @hermi8918
      @hermi8918 2 місяці тому

      The Romanian dictator was overthrown and Romania, with democratic presidents, is still, after more than 30 years, one of the poorest countries in Europe....perhaps the problem is not the dictator but the people.

  • @ShinkeiDEI
    @ShinkeiDEI 9 років тому +77

    When I was walking down this place the first time, my now ex-gf told me about this speech and this day, now that I see it a chill runs down my spine. What a great nation.

    • @rinositorus935
      @rinositorus935 2 роки тому +3

      What a great relationship.

    • @yuriltt
      @yuriltt Рік тому

      Are you still alive ?

    • @johnyapplesauce8034
      @johnyapplesauce8034 11 місяців тому

      Romania has gone to shit after this. Its all gypsies and drugs and poverty. At least the communists had morale and stood for something

  • @andreitudor4559
    @andreitudor4559 5 років тому +38

    My parents and grandparents lived and experienced that revolution. It got violent.

    • @estivarzalord7624
      @estivarzalord7624 3 роки тому +2

      Not by communist it got violent you stupid fuck,still don't realize what happened after 30 years you fucking ape

    • @dannyib94
      @dannyib94 3 роки тому +2

      @@estivarzalord7624 dude I think I know but what happened or what do you know I've heard different things I know but I want to hear what you have to say

    • @TheBobbymcd
      @TheBobbymcd 3 роки тому +5

      @@estivarzalord7624 tell us, but without the swearing and insults

    • @snozzlehead92
      @snozzlehead92 2 роки тому +1

      @@estivarzalord7624 Piss off, idiot. Communist dictators always get theirs in the end.

  • @scottadler
    @scottadler 10 років тому +88

    He tried to run away shortly after this speech.

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      @miladinpavlovic2812 6 років тому +3

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    • @vicentecarrasco2592
      @vicentecarrasco2592 5 років тому +5

      He was caught and shot

    • @2romanian4you20
      @2romanian4you20 5 років тому +2

      @Brainstormvideos not true

    • @manuelmanzanero5057
      @manuelmanzanero5057 5 років тому +1

      @@2romanian4you20 Absolutely true. In fact, he tried to give another speech the following morning before fleeing through the roof.

  • @malthenielsen1370
    @malthenielsen1370 2 роки тому +7

    this would be impossible today, people would rather praise corruption in self pity than to risk looking dumb.
    ego, individualism and fear of the unknown makes for excellent propaganda against the working class, against ourselves, we have no self-interest rather than our immediate, quenched needs

    • @slitor
      @slitor 2 роки тому +2

      Well put, but I wouldn't say this is an unique contemporary problem.
      But with the internet, it's maddening to see how easy humanity can voluntarily trap themselves into the bombastic zero-sum games, ignoring the substance of the ideals they claim to follow.
      And I've come to the conclusion that the chief motivator for this behavior is ego, self-aggrandizement. And in the case of outmost villany, its motivated by greed.
      The ones that activly exploit this human frailty and perpetuate it for their own winnings. Because at some point there are no defence of ignorance or delusions...and it becomes outright acts of malicious deception.

  • @miroslavatrajkovska4074
    @miroslavatrajkovska4074 3 роки тому +36

    Bravo to Romanian military and police officers saving their own people.

  • @fireupthequatrobolly
    @fireupthequatrobolly 9 років тому +42

    You dear brave people. May Romania know true happiness. Este tot superb ♥

  • @iluvhopndballet
    @iluvhopndballet 10 років тому +378

    I was/am one of "Ceausescu's children"/orphans as they put it. I was however, lucky enough to be adopted when I was 6. Thankfully I was in one of the better orphanages, though that didn't exempt me from experiencing the ugly part of it. I hate what this bastard did to Romania, knowing that to this day it has still not fully recovered! I will fight for children's rights and freedom of speech until the day that I die.

    • @iluvhopndballet
      @iluvhopndballet 9 років тому +50

      CRTVBR I said BETTER not best...it was better from a bunch of a many shitty places...that kind of better. You don't know me or what I've been through so you have no idea why I am complaining. I kept my mouth shut for 15 years about the stuff I had to endure, but guess what, I don't anymore.
      So seriously, just f*** off with you bull, especially you saying people lived better. They definitely didn't! I am proof of that, and you're not even Romanian, so how the Fuck can you know?! You weren't there.

    • @Cloud-db6zb
      @Cloud-db6zb 7 років тому +3

      +dragostea1511 what does dragostea mean?

    • @iluvhopndballet
      @iluvhopndballet 7 років тому +14

      Guanyang Huang it means love

    • @carlosmpsenyorcapitacollon6977
      @carlosmpsenyorcapitacollon6977 6 років тому +3

      You mean one of that orphans with mothers that died while giving birth or that could not be brought up by parents due to the economical situation?

    • @carlosmpsenyorcapitacollon6977
      @carlosmpsenyorcapitacollon6977 6 років тому +1

      Tell me more.

  • @Novac_Alexandru
    @Novac_Alexandru 5 років тому +24

    I'm From ROmania and i like my contry history. Like cine e roman!

    • @Novac_Alexandru
      @Novac_Alexandru 4 роки тому +2

      @david dragão Yea, that's not a revolution that's a coup! Started by Iliescu, The Occident, USA, UK, And the soviets. And there are a few boxes with audio gun sounds. People got scared the army has been called to solve that and the army and the entire people has thinking there are terrorists. If someone saw a strange man with capitalist outfit he was arrested. And also some regiments lf army fight itself with they own mates. A very tragic year. Yea, there are a few romanian protesting but the poor people now he doesn't have any money and bread. Rip equality. Also the harder jobs are payed more.

    • @estivarzalord7624
      @estivarzalord7624 3 роки тому

      Alexandru novac,,,ai dreptate,,,as vrea sa fie mai multa lume care sa inteleaga ce sa intamplat cu adevarat la acea revolutie pt ""LIBERAREA ROMANIEI""🙈🙈🙈

    • @Novac_Alexandru
      @Novac_Alexandru 3 роки тому +2

      @@estivarzalord7624 Aia a fost o propaganda, nimeni nu stia adevarul si ce inseamna capitalism. Cica luptau pentru libertate si bateau protestatarii in mineriade. Au crezut daca cheama mineri poporu va crede ca ei au venit si nu au fost chemati de cineva. Si-au aparat cururile in functii. A vazut si lumea cine este adevaratul criminal.

  • @BossySwan
    @BossySwan 13 років тому +49

    2:41 is an incredible sight! The most potent symbol of freedom triumphing over oppression is Ceaucescu's shock.

    • @StephenLuke
      @StephenLuke Рік тому +1

      2:41

    • @BossySwan
      @BossySwan Рік тому

      @@StephenLuke 3:11 is it me you’re looking for

  • @alexandertumarkin5343
    @alexandertumarkin5343 4 роки тому +56

    Кто сюда пришёл после сегодняшних выступлений Лукашенко?

  • @jouisoeur2226
    @jouisoeur2226 2 роки тому +2

    On ne s’en lasse pas ! Des images terriblement d’actualité si on pense à un autre dictateur qui réclame l’unité de son pays dans un stade.

  • @CEB1896
    @CEB1896 3 роки тому +35

    “I have the right to do whatever I want”
    - Nicolae just a few minutes before the execution.

  • @jprg1966
    @jprg1966 11 років тому +25

    This video is amazing and haunting -- the vanishing of a dictatorship, right before our eyes.

  • @KL2010
    @KL2010 7 років тому +42

    The look on his face at 2:40 is priceless and says it all. "Why are the peasants not hanging off my every word?" "Why aren't my goons silencing the dissident voices?" "Quick, fire up the chopper!"

    • @cristianm7097
      @cristianm7097 3 роки тому +5

      The crowd assaulted that building next day around noon and he fled in a helicopter at that time.

  • @STM1066
    @STM1066 2 роки тому +6

    You might not be able to hear it, but at a point the crowd begins to chant “Timisoara”, which was a city where Ceausescu’s soldiers murdered a bunch of protesters. Dude was fucked as soon as that happened

  • @michaelcolello2735
    @michaelcolello2735 10 років тому +14

    The alarm on NC's face here is still priceless, nearly three decades later. HALLO!

    • @bryanholden1558
      @bryanholden1558 4 роки тому +1

      American anti-intellectualism shines through

  • @dennischong764
    @dennischong764 3 роки тому +154

    Nicolae telling Elena "shut up!" on live TV..... that is golden! :)

    • @bryanholden1558
      @bryanholden1558 3 роки тому

      And you are very uneducated

    • @bryanholden1558
      @bryanholden1558 3 роки тому +11

      If ever there was a truly "Evil Empire", America must look in the mirror, examine itself carefully and then seek forgiveness for its numerous transgressions. Every empire the world has ever seen has come to an inglorious end and America will be no different.

    • @dirckthedork-knight1201
      @dirckthedork-knight1201 3 роки тому +7

      @@bryanholden1558 Source (dude trust me)

    • @carterjones8126
      @carterjones8126 3 роки тому +4

      @@bryanholden1558 You're just making up numbers now 🤣

    • @bryanholden1558
      @bryanholden1558 3 роки тому

      @@carterjones8126Then please cite the correct numbers

  • @kargaroc386
    @kargaroc386 7 років тому +43

    2:35 you can see the regime crumble

    • @Hardie_Boi
      @Hardie_Boi 5 років тому

      It was a bloody coup. Same thing going on in bolivia

    • @rafanana0077
      @rafanana0077 5 років тому

      @@Hardie_Boi suuuuure, this is what happens when you talk from a country that doesn't know what it's going on. The former president of Bolivia made fraud in the 2019 elections plus he (accord to Bolivian's Constitution) should have left power since 2016

  • @JohnHoulgate
    @JohnHoulgate Рік тому +1

    I recall seeing news snippets of this speech and I remember the look of terror on his face while trying to assure everyone and himself he was still in charge. He wasn't.

  • @chrisnelmes3786
    @chrisnelmes3786 2 роки тому +30

    That look when realizes,his people no longer fear him......is priceless

  • @ariesmp
    @ariesmp 3 роки тому +25

    Actually, the most grotesque figure in all of this is not Ceausescu but his wife Elena. She is very well aware of what's going on and she becomes furious when it all starts. The arrogance with which she tells the crowd to calm down (as if she were the leader and not her husband) and the frustrated expression in her face tells me that she is the one exerting power in the name of her husband.

    • @tudogeo7061
      @tudogeo7061 Рік тому +4

      Oh yes! Country's foremost chemist.

  • @ernestgrouns8710
    @ernestgrouns8710 4 роки тому +11

    "Beginning January 1st..." Little did he know, he wouldn't be making it past the day alive.

  • @jhonatanmartinez3518
    @jhonatanmartinez3518 17 днів тому +3

    Hermanos Venezolanos, esta es la única forma que pueden acabar con la dictadura de Maduro...

  • @Skyrilla
    @Skyrilla 9 років тому +34

    He totally misread the public. His shocked face remains one of the most iconic displays of this era. And then they killed him. RIP!

  • @ВладимрПетриков
    @ВладимрПетриков 6 років тому +85

    How was Ceausescu deposed?
    He was deposed by a Ceauses-coup

    • @VedantMishra55
      @VedantMishra55 4 роки тому +5

      LMAO

    • @carlosmpsenyorcapitacollon6977
      @carlosmpsenyorcapitacollon6977 4 роки тому +3

      HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA THAT WAS TO FUNNY.
      btw I like your profile pic.

    • @AleXcsGaming
      @AleXcsGaming 4 роки тому

      it wasn't a coup !!!!
      SAYING IT WAS A COUP DENIES THE COURAGE OF THE ROMANIAN PEOPLE WHO STOOD UP IN THE STREETS OF TIMISOARA AND DIED FROM THE BULLETS FROM CEAUSESCU'S AGENCY.
      IT WAS A REVOLUTION

    • @SlitherTheSnake
      @SlitherTheSnake 4 роки тому +2

      @@AleXcsGaming Wonder how long it took for you to find out it was a joke..

    • @samuelvozar1937
      @samuelvozar1937 3 роки тому +1

      Ba dum tsss

  • @dac545j
    @dac545j 6 років тому +18

    "He's making it up as he goes along!"

  • @glenncheatham1320
    @glenncheatham1320 Рік тому +2

    Brilliant to see a dictator lose his power so quickly.

  • @doubtingthomas6146
    @doubtingthomas6146 8 років тому +600

    "Comrades! Hallo, hallo, hallo, hallo, hallo, hallo, hallo, hallo, be quiet, hallo, hallo, hallo, be quiet, hallo, hallo, hallo, death to the imperialists, hallo, hallo, hallo hallo. Good bye."
    Edifying stuff.

    • @stefwatters477
      @stefwatters477 8 років тому +6

      Doubting Thomas OOORRAAHH OORRAAH!!! 😄

    • @kerwinflordeliz3187
      @kerwinflordeliz3187 7 років тому +5

      YOUR AN IDIOT YOU MOCKING A COMMUNIST LEADER AND PRAISING THE IMPERIALIST WEST!! IT DOES NOT MAKING A SENSE!!

    • @ProjectFlashlight612
      @ProjectFlashlight612 7 років тому +1

      Doubting Thomas Best speech ever

    • @titiionescu4234
      @titiionescu4234 7 років тому +2

      Romania was, in 1989, the ONLY country in the world with no eternal debt. And Ceausescu had decided for the next governments to ban any foreign loan. Also, he was in discussion with Lybia, Iran and China to make a bank with low interest rate just for developing countries. If you are courious why he got that end.
      REPLY

    • @carolinastringband
      @carolinastringband 6 років тому +2

      +Titi Ionescu I'm interested in further information regarding your statement. After he ordered the military to open fire on men, women & children, I believe his death was legitimately perpetrated by citizens of his own country because they had enough of his brutal methods in dealing with various issues. I'm interested to know if the West had a helping hand in his death though.

  • @vasilicaqqq
    @vasilicaqqq 9 років тому +16

    Who whant's to know needs to translate because this is for romanians:
    Dupa 25 de ani in sfarsit aveti un presedinte in adevaratul sens al cuvantului,noi cei care ne-am parasit casele,familiile si copii pentru a muncii undeva in lume am facut mare galagie si am stat in frig ore intregi pentru a avea acest nou presedinte,iar acum stam neputinciosi si ne uitam cum sacrificiul nostru (si pe langa asta mai trimitem si bani in tara care se simte la bugetul Romaniei mai mult sau mai putin) nu a avut nici o valoare pentru cei din tara,cum si sacrificiul din 89 a fost tot degeaba,la fel si sacrificiul tinerilor adunati in Bucuresti in 1992 cand Iliescu ia declarat la tv ca sunt huligani iar cand a vazut ca ei protesteaza pasnic au adus minerii sa omoare cu bataia acei tineri.Acu domnul presedinte Iohannis(neamts de sange) va plange si subliniez va plange la tv,de fiecare data cand are ocazia,ca are nevoie de un guvern sa poata face ceva pt ROMANI,voi cei deacasa va uitati la emisiunile lui Marutza si alte porcarii in timp ce securisti din 89(caci asta sunt in guvernul nostru) va da muie in loc sa il ajutati pe presedintele ales.Mai oameni buni,voi chiar nu vedeti ca proxenetii(majoritatea tigani si fara suparare dar asta este adevarul) ne iau copilele si ni le fac prostituate,camatarii fac numai ravagii,violuri si talharii si multe alte nereguli si in timpul asta guvernul care este la putere acum ne fute de 25 de ani?Voi chiar nu vreti sa va treziti?Voi chiar vreti sa ajungeti de rasul Europei din cauza lor?Stiti vorba "Sunt mandru ca sunt roman"?E,strabunii vostrii(si spun strabunii vostri deoarece eu sunt rus lipovean)se caca pe mandria voastra caci acea mandrie le apartine numai lor nu romanilor de azi.Pana si colegii mei de munca romani cand le spun aceleasi cuvinte care le postez aici se supara si i-mi spun:
    "De ce ne baci pa toti in aceeasi oala?" eu le spun"Bai fratilor,eu stiu un singur popor de romani(inclusiv moldovenii de peste prut),altii nu stiu in lume,iar asta nu inseamna ca va generalizez.Nu stiu ce canditi voi dar eu stiu ca romanii au fost candva Daci iar o familie regala a facut din Bucuresti micul Paris,ii mai tineti minte?Erau tot nemti ca noul presedinte pe care il avem.Stiti,noi rusi lipovenii noi suntem omenii muntilor din Siberia,draga mama Rusia nea futut de 2 ori,o data ca neau luat muntii si a doua oara averile si iaca asa am ajuns in delta Dunarii.Aici ajunsi am cumparat pamant sa ne facem case si sa invatzam sa fim romani(la final am invatat cum sa nu fim romani) si pt asta am facut si noi sacrificiul nostru cand v-am urmat in razboaie impotriva rusilor si impotriva lui Hitler iar dupa razboi si voi neati futut de doua ori,o data neati luat pamanturile iar a doua oara aurul care il aveam si totusi noi v-am mai dat pe Nadia Comaneci(singura din luma care a luat 10 la gimnastica si accidentata saraca dar ea tot a luptat pt Romania),Ivan Patzaichin(campion mondial la caiac canoe),Mihai Eminescu(care daca nu stiati si el era slav) si multi altii.E acuma culmea culmilor vine alt rus lipovean si va intreaba cand aveti si voi de gand sa va treziti si sa va sprijiniti presedintele caci el are multe de dat,dar cu un popor ca voi el nu poate sa faca nici un cacat,si a doua culme a culmilor este ca neamtu asta vrea sa va ajute pe voi un popor de nepasatori ce sunteti,caci noua rusi lipovenilor nea ajuns,iar eu unul ma consider cetatean al Europei si imi laud tara in care m-am nascut(Romania)caci Dumnezeu a facuto asa frumoasa dar voi romanii nu aveti nici cea mai mica intentie sa o reinviati.E,cum noi romanii din afara tarii ne-am miscat hoitul sa votam un presedinte,poate va miscati si voi hoitul sa ii dati un guvern iar pt cei care se supara pt postarea mea vreau sa va anunt ca sotia mea este romanca(ce mai pui ca are si sange de tiganca in ea) si este de aceeasi parere cu mine.Voi vreti ca noi minoritatile sa va trezim sufletul de daci?Voi nu vedeti ca aveti un razboi langa voi si voi tot nepasatori stati.Rusine sa va fie.Stiti, si eu am in familie care au murit in perioada revolutiei si cu toate astea nu au cerut pensie de revolutionar dar voi ati uscat bugetul cu falsi vostri revolutionari,caci cei adevarati au murit in 89,iar si ei ca si strabunii vostrii in momentul actual se caca pe mandria voastra caci cum am mai spus,lor le apartine mandria si tineti minte bine asta pana va faceti strabunii iar mandrii de voi.Ati devenit o tara de manelisti(halal spirit de roman) si tare mash bucura sa vad contrariul dar realitatea spune altceva.Pacat,caci ati fost un popor care sa luptat cu multe imperii ale lumii si nici una nu a trecut mai departe de voi in Europa(pana si mai marii Europei din acele vremuri va trimitea scrisori de multumire ca ii tineti pe otomani departe de ei) iar acum nu sunteti in stare de nimic,ba mai rau stati si va uitati cum psdistii va distruge tara.Pana si preotii vostri daca nu le dati bani nu va inmormanteaza mortii casa vedeti si voi ce de rahat pareti in fata lor.Daca vreun roman cu suflet de dac in el vede acest coment,l-as ruga sa transmita acest mesaj mai departe si sa nu se supere,caci tot ce am spus aici am spuso ca imi iubesc trara in care m-am nascut.Voi unde va-ti nascut?

    • @allanfifield8256
      @allanfifield8256 3 місяці тому

      After 25 years, you finally have a president in the true sense of the word, we who left our homes, families and children to work somewhere in the world made a big fuss and stayed in the cold for hours to have this new president , and now we sit helpless and look at how our sacrifice (and besides that we also send money to the country which is more or less felt at the budget of Romania) had no value for the people of the country, like the sacrifice of 89 it was all in vain, as well as the sacrifice of the young people gathered in Bucharest in 1992 when Iliescu declared on TV that they were hooligans and when he saw that they were peacefully protesting, they brought the miners to beat those young people to death. Here Mr. President Iohannis (no blood ) will cry and I emphasize that he will cry on TV, every time he has the opportunity, that he needs a government to be able to do something for the ROMANS, you at home watch Marutza's shows and other crap while you secure from 89 (because they are in our government) will give you a blowjob instead of helping the president-elect. Better people, you really don't see that the pimps (mostly gypsies and no offense but this is the truth) take our children and turn them into prostitutes, loan sharks only havoc, rapes and robberies and many other irregularities and during this time the government that is in power now has been screwing us for 25 years? Do you really not want to wake up? Do you really want to be the laughing stock of Europe because of them? You know the saying " Am I proud to be Romanian"? Well, your ancestors (and I say your ancestors because I'm Russian from Lipov) shit on your pride because that pride belongs only to them, not to the Romanians of today. Even my Romanian colleagues when I say the same to them words that I post here, they get angry and tell me:
      "Why are you putting us all in the same pot?" I say to them, "Bye brothers, I know only one Romanian people (including the Moldovans across the river), others do not know in the world, and this does not mean that I am generalizing you. I don't know what you are saying, but I know that the Romanians were once Dacians and a royal family made Bucharest a little Paris, do you still remember it? They were all Germans like the new president we have. You know, we Russian Lipovians, we are the people of the mountains from Siberia, dear mother Russia fucked us twice, once that the mountains took our wealth a second time and that's how we ended up in the Danube delta. Here we bought land to build our houses and learn to be Romanians (in the end we learned how not to be Romanians) and that's why we did our sacrifice when we followed you in the war against the Russians and against Hitler and after the war you also fucked us twice, once you took our lands and the second time the gold we had and still we gave you Nadia Comaneci (the only one in the world who got 10 in gymnastics and poor injured but she still fought for Romania), Ivan Patzaichin (world champion in kayak canoe), Mihai Eminescu (who, if you didn't know, was also Slavic) and many others. now the peak of the peaks comes another Russian from Lipovi and will ask you when you are also going to wake up and support your president because he has a lot to give, but with a people like you he can't do a single shit, and the second peak the worst thing is that this German wants to help you, a careless people that you are, because the Russian Lipovians have reached us, and I for one consider myself a citizen of Europe and I am proud of the country where I was born (Romania) because God made so beautiful, but you Romanians have not the slightest intention to revive it. Just as we Romanians from outside the country moved the thief to vote for a president, maybe you will also move the thief to give him a government and for those who he is upset about my post, I want to inform you that my wife is Romanian (what if she has gypsy blood in her) and she is of the same opinion as me. Do you want us minorities to wake up your Dacian soul? You don't see that you have a war near you and you are still careless. Shame on you. You know, I also have family members who died during the revolution and despite all this they did not ask for a revolutionary's pension, but you dried up the budget with your fake revolutionaries, because the real ones died in 89, and they, like your great-grandfathers, are currently shitting on your pride because, as I said before, the pride belongs to them and keep this in mind until you become your great-grandfathers and proud of you. You have become a the country of manelists (halal Romanian spirit) and I'm very happy to see the opposite, but the reality says otherwise. It's a shame, because you were a people who fought with many empires of the world and none of them passed beyond you in Europe (until and the leaders of Europe from those times sent you letters of thanks for keeping the Ottomans away from them) and now you are in no position to do anything, what's worse, sit and watch how the PSDists will destroy the country. Even your priests if you don't give money, they won't bury the dead at home, you can also see how shitty you look in front of them. If any Romanian with a Dacian soul in him sees this comment, I would ask him to pass this message on and not to get upset, because everything I said here, I said that I love my country where I was born. Where were you born?
      16
      @1JuliusStrei

  • @GeorgiRusev
    @GeorgiRusev 9 років тому +147

    3:45 min: Nicolae Ceausescu to Elena: "Shh! Shut up...!"
    :)

    • @raymonddaubney3612
      @raymonddaubney3612 9 років тому +11

      ***** Yeah, just like they had been doing to others for decades.

    • @elfonero1492
      @elfonero1492 5 років тому +1

      @@Dan-TechAndMusic Elena Ceausescu was evil like Margaret Tatcher

  • @robin82pb94
    @robin82pb94 2 роки тому +8

    Now, it needed the same thing for Putin.

    • @ЕвгенийМ-г1я
      @ЕвгенийМ-г1я 2 роки тому +2

      Haha, he has 90% of the support of the people.The remaining 10 percent are gay lesbian and Jewish

    • @kopner5672
      @kopner5672 2 роки тому +2

      @@ЕвгенийМ-г1я No, he doesn't, and Putin himself is Jewish.

    • @qoph1988
      @qoph1988 4 місяці тому

      @@kopner5672 By the metric that people say Putin is one, nearly everyone in western Russia would be one. It's a little more complicated

  • @Yngvarfo
    @Yngvarfo 4 роки тому +16

    I remember that day. It was right before Christmas, and I would take a seven hour train trip to visit my mother for the holidays. The morning, news had a brief mention that there were demonstrations in Bucharest. I was cut off from news during the trip, but once there, I heard that Ceaușescu had been overthrown. Seven hours. What *happened* during that brief time??
    Today, of course, I would have followed the news on my phone.

    • @0x777
      @0x777 4 роки тому +3

      Back then: "On the phone? Who would talk me through this constantly? Not to mention, do you even have a phone?"

  • @TenorMan96
    @TenorMan96 4 роки тому +7

    A rare moment seeing the people of Romania having their own coup against the president especially on live TV.

  • @SnabbKassa
    @SnabbKassa 4 роки тому +12

    It’s the end of a decade / In another ten years time / Who can say what we’ll find
    What lies waiting down the line / In the end of ’89
    Happy new year, happy new year
    - ABBA

  • @iainclark5964
    @iainclark5964 11 місяців тому +2

    Putin probably lies awake a night thinking over the last moments of Ceausescu knowing the same fate awaits him.

  • @michailrizos9433
    @michailrizos9433 10 років тому +144

    These protestors were really brave. The lunatic leader could have killed them instantly as he did in Timisoara some days before this speech.

    • @lorenzodemin4799
      @lorenzodemin4799 6 років тому +12

      Michail Rizos "Timisoara murders" ?A great lie discovered just one year after,only anticommunist propaganda.

    • @lorenzodemin4799
      @lorenzodemin4799 6 років тому +2

      I didn't mention CIA.I have only said that the real truth about Timisoara has never been told.

    • @alexandruszekely
      @alexandruszekely 6 років тому +6

      My uncle almost got shot so it's not anticomunist propaganda.

    • @danpopescu7179
      @danpopescu7179 6 років тому +5

      Lorenzo De Min How stupid can you get?

    • @1helluvaguy738
      @1helluvaguy738 6 років тому +5

      Lorenzo De Min
      Yeah right. Lemme guess, western propaganda, amirite?
      That’s always the commie’s excuse for all their many, many massacres.
      Just as bad as the Nazis. Your fellow socialists, by the way. Except communists killed more innocents than the fascists.
      Nicky boy here got exactly what he deserved in the end!

  • @timlagcher
    @timlagcher 11 років тому +13

    this is amazing....24 years down the drain in four days...this man had no idea what was about to happen.

  • @mikv3429
    @mikv3429 7 років тому +33

    2:36 Best moment ever !

  • @DaniilBalkans-jh2rw
    @DaniilBalkans-jh2rw Рік тому +31

    Nicolae & Elena where so arrogantly drunk on power, riches, lavishness & corruptness, pride & ego, that they could not even believe their execution ever possible, even while it was happening??. She was defiant & fought with the young executioners as they struggled to restrain her hands with a piece of twine behind her back, as they were being led out the back into a courtyard to be executed by gunfire.

    • @НесторИванович-л1к
      @НесторИванович-л1к Рік тому

      And from what, from what facts does their intoxication with power, wealth, waste and corruption follow? How can you confirm this?
      As for the rest, for your information, even when a person deep down understands that he will soon be killed, he still does not want to believe it.
      Was she disobedient? What else could she do, knowing that they were going to kill her? It’s strange to read your condemnation of her such behavior.
      Contrary to you, I don’t understand something completely different. Why didn't they try to agitate the firing squad or at the very end even try to at least snatch the weapons from their hands in order to take as many killers with them as possible.

    • @DaniilBalkans-jh2rw
      @DaniilBalkans-jh2rw Рік тому

      Try to agitate & snatch the weapons from the executioners😂🤣🤣??. Are you serious??. That says it all, i know you very well now😂??. Were you even alive or even born when this was happening??. I already know you weren't by your limited knowledge & understanding?. Those of us who know this time, know exactly what was happening in Romania under the Ceausescu regime??. Romanians rose, arrested, trialled, convicted, sentenced & executed the Ceausescu's in Romania, no enemy came in & assassinated two lovely leaders😂??.

    • @Hungrycyclist81
      @Hungrycyclist81 Рік тому

      @@НесторИванович-л1кThe fact’s are from thousands of Romanian’s and their families that were killed under their regime. Suppression of speech, constant paranoia of loss of power, banning music they didn’t like…the list goes on. To anyone that sounds like a hunger for power. However, it is consistent throughout humanity, that when you believe and like something, it will take a lot for you to see most situations otherwise, even when presented with evidence right before your eyes. I believe the term is “denialism”.

  • @inadifferentdimension1774
    @inadifferentdimension1774 10 років тому +101

    This video still feels me up with rage me up after all these years. My family has suffered so much at the hands of this tyrant. I wish they did not speed his trial because we never got to know the whole truth.

    • @erikapollak7943
      @erikapollak7943 6 років тому +20

      It wasn't just the "not being able to afford a child". By law you were forced to see the gynecologist once a month and he/she were forced to report every pregnancy.The punishment for abortion was 15 years, for everyone involved or knowing and not stopping it. Tons of mothers left their children to orphanages, with no funding or even the minimum food rations (yes, we had food rations up until 1989). And the list just goes on. I wish they would've just thrown him to the masses of women forced to give birth to these children unable to care for them properly. A bullet was a way too easy mode to get out of it for all the suffering he caused.

    • @alexf8314
      @alexf8314 6 років тому +4

      signoguns -- I don't know for 100% sure but from what ive read people in the back of the crowd started to jeer and heckle him.

    • @richardlorych9868
      @richardlorych9868 6 років тому

      and you are just a fuckwit!

    • @richardlorych9868
      @richardlorych9868 6 років тому

      the reply was for user user

    • @borinakoune1803
      @borinakoune1803 5 років тому

      Romanians are just like Greeks balkanoids to the very end. Once a balkan always a balkan.