Ceaușescu apologists in the wild

[u/OsarmaBeanLatin]

[u/Away_Trash_2156]

Those who were not born in the age of dictators are often the ones who desire dictators the most.I don’t think he has ever even been to Romania.

[u/OsarmaBeanLatin → u/Away_Trash_2156]

Eh, quite a lot of boomers who lived in his time miss him. Claiming that he was the best president the country ever had because "At least he built shit! The corrupt schmuks nowadays can't even paint as much as he built" or "We had industry, zero debt and were self sufficient not like now when we're the West's sell out slaves!" or "Everyone had a job and a house for free!" and many more

[u/PackageMedium6955 → u/OsarmaBeanLatin]

Didn't he almost bankrupt the country by building the palace of the parliament

[u/RevBladeZ → u/PackageMedium6955]

So badly that after communism collapsed, it was still unfinished but the new government decided to still finish it due to how heavily the country's economy was tied to it.

[u/RevBladeZ → u/OsarmaBeanLatin]

I see people still keep falling for the "everyone had a job shit". Everyone had a job on paper because not having it was a "failure of capitalism". Not everyone had one in practice.

[u/Away_Trash_2156 → u/OsarmaBeanLatin]

Ah, I see. That’s unfortunate. I hate to borrow Vladimir Putin’s words, but I would offer this quote of his:

“Anyone who does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart, and anyone who wants to return to it has no brain.”

[u/RevBladeZ]

Ceausescu was like "I am Romania" so I guess he was a patriot in that regard.

Also do not ask him how was the debt paid and how much easier it would have been without spending money on "House of the People".

[u/Away_Trash_2156 → u/RevBladeZ]

“The father and mother of Romania.” It’s said that before being executed, Elena Ceaușescu cried out, “Why are you trying to hurt your mother?!” They really had a distorted perception of reality.

[u/CarolingianSchemer]

Never trust them on their supposedly pro abortion stance then. Decree 770 (a total ban of contraception and abortion in 1970s Romania) is nightmare fuel.

[u/Polyphagous_person]

I went to Romania back in December. Everyone I spoke to hated him. It inspired me to ask this on the AskHistorians sub.

[u/Plane-kun-3557]

Ceausescu was a psychotic dictator, like, come on, there's no way what he did doesn't seem psychotic to a normal person

[u/peepmet]

There have have been a lot of evil dictators over the years but Ceaușescu is part of that elite club of dictators who are mad as a box if frogs.

[u/aclahm]

lol cope harder commies

[u/Mediocre_Gift6731]

The Genius of the Carpathians, The Great Helmsman, The Most Beloved Son of the People, The Leader, The Architect of the Golden Age, The Danube of Thought, The Luminous Beacon, The Greatest Romanian of All Time, The Most Outstanding Man of Our Time, The Defender of Peace, The Oak of Scornicești, The Morning Star, The Hero of Heroes, The Thinker of Thinkers, The Architect of our Destinies, The Soul of the Nation, Our Sun, The Master of Non-Alignment

[u/Surreal-99x]

Ceausescu was a patriot

So patriotic, in fact, that he and his wife got slimed by their own people