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1989, Romania: revolution or coup d'etat?
Nicolae Ceausescu, absolute ruler of Romania for 24 years, and his wife were executed almost exactly twenty years ago by the army that he once commanded. Christophe Robeet analyzes the fall of the regime. Was Ceausescu the most absolute, authoritarian ruler in Eastern Europe? Why is Romania's revolution of 1989 still considered an enigma for many?
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fear for the revolution
it is somtimes the cycle of time itself circles us round and round and round again
1989, Romania: revolution or coup d'etat?
I have just watched your interview with Prof. Jewsbury and I must correct him. He said that researching the Securitate files is not as good as researching Stasi files in Germany. I beg to differ. The Securitate files are open for the public. I have been researching them for almost an entire year, and I find the entire process well organized. I live in Berlin and I can tell you on the other hand that it is very difficult to see your own Stasi files in Germany. There are many more roadblocks here than in Bucharest. Prof. Forbes also said that only a few people from the Securitate actually served prison terms and those were very short. Not true. Gen. Julian Vlad, head of the Secrutitate in 1989, served nine years, I believe, in prison. A man I interviewed, Radu Tinu, who was second-in-charge in Timisoara, served two years for genocide. I should know all of this. I am the producer of the documentary film "Dracula's Shadow - The Real Story Behind the Romanian Revolution", and I would suggest giving a lot more credit to the man who sparked the Romanian Revolution, Laszlo Tokes, the protestant minister in Timisoara.
Arpad Szoczi
Producer
www.romanianrevolutionfilm.com
that s how things are in romania...
everything was just the voice of the people,hungered and poor.all that involves policy was made by ion iliescu. and everything he claimed is fake!he told a bbc reported that if someone will ever acuse him for what happend in 1989,in the country will start a general protest.everybody hates him and wants to see him dead for everything he had done!anyway,i was just wondering the other days...were all the things that happend good?because in romania,almost nothing changed. the politicians are communists,people are dieing on the streets,and in hospitals,nobody sees you untill you pay the nurses(even if it s for free...or it should be)
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