22nd December 1989: Romanian Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu overthrown in the Revolution of 1989
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- Five days before his overthrow, Nicolae Ceausescu had ordered the military to put down a revolt in the western Romanian city of Timisoara. Triggered by government’s attempt to evict an ethnic Hungarian pastor who they accused of inciting ethnic hatred, the Timisoara uprising quickly became a broader anti-government demonstration. News of the government’s crackdown was not shared in the heavily-censored press, but quickly spread through western-operated radio stations such as Radio Free Europe.
With unrest increasing, Ceausescu addressed a staged demonstration from a balcony of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party in Bucharest on 21 December. Despite the presence of the secret police known as the Securitate, the crowd began to heckle him with chants of ‘Ti-mi-soa-ra! Ti-mi-soa-ra!’
Having failed to calm the crowd, Ceausescu was moved back inside the building by his bodyguards. The speech had been televised around Romania and the video feed was only cut after the start of the crowd’s protest. It was clear to anyone watching that something monumental was unfolding in the capital.
Over the next few hours the streets of Bucharest filled with protesters. Unable to regain control, the following morning Ceausescu and his wife fled the Central Committee building by helicopter. Their pilot soon faked a threat of anti-aircraft fire and landed, leading to the later arrest of the Ceausescus. They were subjected to a show trial on Christmas Day and found guilty of crimes including genocide and illegally gathering wealth. Having been sentenced to death they were quickly taken outside and shot.
When my wife was a child, she had a next door neighbor who adopted a young girl from Romania in the early 90s. My wife had quickly befriended her after she arrived. She always retells the story about how her mother brought the little neighbor girl to go shopping with them, where she started crying as soon as she entered the grocery store and saw all the food that was available. It was like nothing she had ever seen before.
In what country was your wife when she was a child?
I am Hungarian (living in the US) and I am so proud of the Romanian people for standing up against tyranny.
Hungary's Communism fall, thank God, was much more peaceful about six months earlier. It's interesting that it finally took the treatment of ethnic-Hungarian priest Tokés László Temesvárban to trigger the end in Romania (the guy has a VERY interesting story!). For the non-Hungarians, the reason why I said Temesvár is that that part of Romania ("Timisoara") was actually Hungarian until 1920. My grandparents fled Hungary to Austria toward the end of WWII and they arrived in the USA when my father was in kindergarten.
@@millenniumman75 les gens depuis des décennies fuient la misère et la tyrannie. ils ont bien fait. Mais aujourd'hui il est grand temps de reprendre la main plutôt que de fuir.
Your people should do the same to orban
@@benwyness148 right!
You don’t even know what you’re talking about 😅
To add more info: the general responsible for oppressing the protestors was shot in unknown circumstances and Ceausescu quickly replaced him with another general which refused the orders to ramp up the oppression.
Unlike other coups, the military did not take over the government after that and let it to be a civilian-led government - likely because the soldiers(most conscripts) did hard labor under Ceasescu, so they didn’t think themselves a higher class over regular civilians, they saw themselves as part of that same population.
Securitatea or secret service was in charge and is still now . not military. now is call SRI, BUT IS TILL IN CHARGE NOW, old secret service agenti. ask any person they will confirm.
As a Romanian, I grew up a couple of years after the fall of the soviet era of our country (1989). I remember hearing about Ceaceşcu back in the early 90s in a conversation about the execution years prior. Looking back, he was a monster like most communist countries at the time, making the people suffer of famine and poverty.
Edit: Also I think the idea of Marxism was hypocritical. Since no country was able to establish such government or system that can prove Marx's theory
The only stupid thing Ceaucescu did was that he trusted western advisors and got involved in an oil deal which went wrong ( as it was supposed to) and Romania went into huge debt. Ceaucescu paid it off at a huge sacrifice from the people but it wasn't what the creditors wanted. They didn't want dollars they could print as much as they wanted but they were interested in Romanian gold deposits - one of the biggest in Europe. That's why Ceaucescu had to go and that's why they made him look like a monster.
@Plato Socrates Long live Romania? In 1965 when Ceaucescu took power population of Romania was 19.03 mln, in 1989 when he was murdered it was 23.16 mln and as for 2020 ( it is the last data I found) it was 19.29 mln. That means that during 30 years Romania lost almost all the population it gained during Ceaucescu's rule. And this is similar to all post socialist states. So what are you talking about? Go to hell with a warmonger Churchill. If anybody deserved to be shot with his wife after kangaroo court trial it definitely wasn't Ceaucescu.
Wow! I'm surprised just how many commie sympathizers are in the comments... then again, maybe I'm not surprised...my Great Grandfather was murdered in his own home when Russia became communist. My Grandfather escaped and helped many others to do the same! When I was a small boy he warned me that Canada was set up to have an easy comunist takeover itself. I didn't understand then...but I sure do now!!!!
@@jerzypodgorski8630 Give me a break. Ceaucesu was a mass murderer. He deserved what he got. Too bad Castro and Stalin and Mao didn’t get theirs on this earth. But they had to face God.
Respect - dictators have to be punished
This is what needs to happen to the evil monsters who have been ruling our planet for a long time.
But remember as much as we complain about our leaders in the West, you won't be arrested, tortured and killed for saying things about Biden, Trump, Johnson, Blair, Bush, Clinton, Macron, Merkel etc.... We still have the freedom to call them out out without fear of having the living shit kicked out of us. I can't imagine the living nightmare Romania was (and all soviet era countries). FUCK COMMUNISM.
Adevaratii monstrii conduc din umbra.....
Please, the US government monsters next.
Dont forget Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un, and the Iranian dictator
@@yapooa did you meant Russia?
Big thanks to the pilot.
If only every podcast clogging up the Internet was done as professionally as this one. Hats off to you, History Pod!
Thank you! I appreciate you taking the time to leave such a generous comment :)
Those Romanians don't mess about. Hats off!!
I wish this could happen in Nigeria with all our shady politicians
And Jamaica.
Get to work 1776 gave the world a wonderful template. Just don’t go the French way unless you enjoy guillotines.
the whole world more like it
Just give it time, it took Romania almost 40 years.
North Korea? It's happening in Iran.
I love this story. Overall an asshole gets what he deserves. I agree with the previous comments and all tyrants around the world should take notice.
Especially Trump.
@@AlexAlexon3897 Orange Man Bad!
My sentiments, exactly.. Sweet justice, I say.
@@AlexAlexon3897 how many did Trump kill exactly?
@@georgesmith5201: Orange Man popular with morons. :)
They fail to mention how he carjacked some guy and got the man to drive to a place where he had him believe was abandoned and where he could hide out at and the police showed up after he was able to "point him out"
My best friend was a romanian. He there at Bucharest at the time. He moved in Canada in 1993. It's funny because I'm born in FDR and escaped with my mother and father who was a Canadian humans right "observer". We both had very mutch in common. He died in 2007 from cancer. I'll always remember him. He was incredibly courageous and resilient.
Isn't it crazy how Trudeau is acting just like Ceausescu?
@@pittmanfh definitely. Trudeau is the Americans puppet.
@@pittmanfh It's crazy that you believe such nonsense.
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@@AlexAlexon3897 its true, he acting as a dictator
The power of the people!
…. and CIA
That's a lovely end for these monsters🔥
I have no idea if the wife deserved it, but he sure did.
Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Barbara Bush, George W. Bush, Laura Bush, Dick Cheney and Lynne Cheney all deserved this lovely end 🔥 Perfect ending for capitalist war mongers!
If only they were not executed by communists working for Russia who later grabbed power
Why do they Nicolae i don't understand
Da de unde știi că erau monștrii că ai auzit după ureche..Vorbiți sa vă aflați în treabă despre o lovitură de stat că era bogată Romania.Acest președinte Nicolaie Ceaușescu a fost asasinat pentru că a avut curajul sa le de-a un scuipat în obrazul FMI plătind datoria rămânând unica țară din lume care a reușit să scape din ghiarele cămătarilor de la FMI.A fost patriot.
Now that’s what I call an insurrection, nicely done
So what happened to those in the police and the army who were there to support the dictator? No need to tell me, they just changed their uniforms for ones of a different colour, right ?
The revolution turned on him only once the army turned on him and fought the secret police
Exactly.
Where can I see the video and we need more of this for world leaders
Now that's how you handle a corrupt politician America take notice
Yes, if only that could've happened to Trump.
@@ATalkingBadger Trump is not a commie starving his own people, he's defending individuals'' freedom to live the life they're destined to live
@@TimmacTR: If you believe that, you're a fool. Actually, you're a fool for mistaking Biden for a Communist. Moron.
@@ATalkingBadger You mean Biden?
@@AlexAlexon3897 And I suppose that you believe that the military needs to be called out to suppress the convoys? We are watching the Canadian cover of Timisoara. And the American cover is soon going to be released.
Sweeeeet justice. Romanians are the best!
Well done Romania! 👍
Castro Junior next please
That is a good warning for all the corupt and selfish politicians in the world! Power to the people!
What do those images remind me of?
And look we're are we now, we ended up with extremely high debts and the government.... We will have one revolt even today
More people need to rise up like this all over the world and put those people in their place. I hope we will one day.
Dear , This is , the Korean TV show which is broadcasted on JTBC (Korean TV channel). I'd like to use the video to introduce Romanian Revolution in 1989 in our upcoming episode, which will be broadcasted on 17 April 2023. So, could you inform me the source of the video(00:49~01:22). Thank you in advance and I am looking forward to hearing from you.
You can find it on TH-cam as "the last speech of Ceausescu", it's about 9 minutes long.
What a shame that we haven't done this in America. The world must be laughing at us
Are you and idiot. We elect leaders. They didnt.
It will, even better. It will come in the likes of Sodom and Ghamora.
The US polictic is cancer in the world.
Not many American Presidents get to reign for 35 years!
That's the dumbest thing anyone could've said.
Yall can choose your leaders.
You have no reason to start a revolution.
@@terracotta5911 You obviously don't live in America. We have tyrants trying to turn our country into the USSR.
If only the russians had the balls!
Leader who crave respect deserve none 👍 Show such leaders and their laws no mercy and no respect
What happened to the pilot whose decision lead to their execution?
I am sure he didn't regret his decision. Hope that he is proud of himself.
He lived happily ever after, in a newly democratic Romania! ☺️
sic semper tyrannis.
That's how it's done
Porque algo que paso en los 90’ tiene
Așa vă trebuie!fi binecuvântată libertate !
Good job..!!..
A former colleague of mine was in the Romanian army at this time. He never really went into any details, and I didn't ask him.
"Don't let her grow up without hearing the truth!" This ad speaks of Twitter today ....
Trudeau.
Has won three terms
Putin watch yo' back!!!
Generals have given orders to 2 female nurses to undress him completely and to remove his testicles and penis, the nurses castrated Ceausescu completely with a knife and kept his genitals in a jar with formaldehyde, later they sold the jar with his genitals, they took photos, there was a photograph, and the photos were bought by the americans.
Do you knoew the real story ????
Moscow next... No more dictators
If you think that dictatorship is immediately bad, looking at just some examples. Then I think it will be impossible to adequately talk to you.
@@pq6251 don't dictate to me.
You only have to look at the two dictatorships that has engulfed North America.
And what about the fascist/Nazi dictatorship of Ukraine??
No more dictators.
Romania and Eastern Germany were the most oppressive regimes - the Stazi and the Securitate were both really bad people. However, while the Eastern Germany had the best living level of communist countries, Romania was among the worst. For a Romanian child, a banana was like seeing Santa Claus coming down from the sky. I'm not kidding, that simple fruit would be seen like a space ship. The whole life was all about luxuries such as a Nescafé for parents or a Wrigley's chewing gum for children. In 87 my mom did receive a package (only one) from a friend that was living in the US. In that package there was a box with Tide laundry detergent - you know, the red boxes. After using the detergent, I asked mom to give me the box. The box itself would look so extraordinarily beautiful to me, I cut a piece of it and kept it in my room. By the way, these things is exactly what is going on now in North Korea.
1989 to 1991 was a wild ride so glad I could see this change taking place when it did. In this case he was just delusional and had no external support as both east and western leaders thought he was a fool and new his days were numbered.
正义必胜！
Next, western Communist leaders pls!
Hell yes
Trudeau Castro next!
US Democrat (communist) party is way past due
yep
Next, western Capitalist leaders pls!
Take notes Russia!
i like the simplicity of that so called trial and how the execution has been carried out, just a couple of days after their arrest. locked up for a couple of days, a hastily prepared trial, sentenced, and executed right on spot outside the same building, just a little over an hour later. finish palaver! very adorable lol
I love swift justice💜
Trudeau are you paying attention? Boris? You too
How many did they kill exactly?
@@dr.bendover-md Obviously, the number is still growing. Soon enough (circa 2024-26), those of us left standing may know more precisely...but life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is much less likely to be wasted or taken for granted. 🙏 As it's long been recognized, "the chickens always come home to roost." Even at ol' Marek''s place. 😬
Trudeau. lol He is so hated he has won three terms, stop exaggerating like Americans.
Forget to mention Biden?
I remember watching these events unfold on TV with my grandmother
A rare example of a dictator who got exactly what he deserved.
Putin's fate will be the same... History
I do hope not don't be fooled by the media not everyone is apart of the agenda and his one of them that isn't. And no one likes that fact Russia is self efficient and depends on no country or government. That is a power that is not like by the west
Putin next
BIDEN,OBAMA,CLINTON NOT PUTIN
Bush too
this was no revloution, there was no organised opposition in Romania. It was an internal political fight between him and his political 'friends'
ok all super tough folks in the chat: what are you doing about tyranny in _your_ time and place right now ?
seems like you're more than happy to suck up to commies anymore
Ducking won't help much
When I see these videos I'm always looking for my old friend Mihai, a member of the secret police I am told.
Czechoslovakia should have done same thing with Vasil Bilak
How about that helicopter pilot? Wow
He was killed, and all the important army and special service leaders were killed. The judge who sentenced them to death suicided after 3 months, in March 90.
Anyone smell maple syrup and hear that strange honking sound?
Let’s go Trudeau!! Or Castreau
I wish this would happen to Justin Trudeau.
That is why we have voted him in three times? Sour grapes much, stop exaggerating. I don't vote for him but I sure don't vote Conservative.
show trial??? i call it justice
Right justice.
I read a book about it 🙂
That what happens when there is hunger and poverty
The one Heckler who started the history .. 👍👍
When will this happen to Putin?
It will not happen too soon for me.
some time in the next few months...
You people still cry a Niagara Falls of tears for the Czar. Why would you want it to happen to Putin? He's a hippie compared to Nicholas II.
@@BolshevikCarpetbagger1917 Who cry over the Tsar again? Who are you talking about?
@@BolshevikCarpetbagger1917 you old son are talking total and utter BOLLOCKS! putin want to emulate his hero Stalin and like Stalin has murdered any one who dares to stand up to him, we know a turd when we see one, and right now piutin is that turd!
Well done Romania! Next Russia!
USA 🇺🇸 first for killing millions of people around the world in last 20years! MILLIONS
@@kingkong6241 No.
That's exactly what should happen, Putin overthrown from within. OK so the internet is heavily censored in Russia but so what? No doubt there is many a Russian that has installed a VPN on their computer so they can REALLY see what's going on in Ukraine.
And next?
@@lubossubjak2653 next united States with his criminal Presidents like bush, Clinton, Obama👎👎👎
Finiscono così e dovrebbero essere monito per gli altri
He tried to bribe them with pension increase of 100 LOLS. I can only imagine how worthless that was.
A wonderful example we should follow in the modern day
Is that a threat?
Wish this culd happen in Zimbabwe
Got a guy like this in Canada now called Justin Blackface Trudeau
Keep crying, I vote NDP but seriously he is 1 million times better than Conservatives.
Just thinking...what if this happened to Putin?
Putins next
الشعوب ❤❤❤❤
When did Roumania become Romania ? All my maps and atlas have the former.
Romania became the dominant English-language spelling by the end of the 1970s, but many countries still spell with a U such as French Roumanie, German and Swedish Rumänien, and Spanish Rumania.
@@historypod Asi es Amigo , "Rumania".
@@historypod what did you find in shops, supermarkets, pharmacies in the last 80's? Such as disposable diapers for babies (Pampers or other brands of diapers), cosmetic products, soaps, perfumes.
I ask for this information because I do not know how they used diapers on babies before the fall of the regime.
Ceausescu changed the spelling so it would sound more like a part of the Roman Empire🐀
Putin next =)
*Spoken like a true* 🐏 . . .
I thought that Ceacescu tried to escape through the sewers.
They belong there💩
This is what needs to happen in the United States to corrupt politicians of both political parties.
They have free voting and allow peaceful protest.
This man didn’t. That’s what you get.
The shwabs, rothschilds, rockefellers, Clinton, bushes, obamas and the rest need to burn like the Ceausescus😀
The perfect way to end a tyrant’s reign. Although shooting is too good for a political murderer. I wouldn’t be so kind 🤣
You don’t know exactly what took place..
Hanging like common criminals is the only way to deal with dictators and their henchmen!
@@Beniamin6665 er as we DO know what was going on in Romania at the time, we have a damn good idea old son
@@grahamkeithtodd Your wrong
Biden and the globalists next🔥
There are many Romanians who still love Ceausescu. Because of my job, I visit trade fairs and exhibitions in many countries for furniture, and I have been to most ex-communist East European nations. Former Communist leaders are popular almost everywhere. Even in Poland, which had Communism practically imposed on gunpoint by Russians, the memory of former Communist military dictator Jaruzelski is respected among many people. But in Romania's case, I'd say 6 out of 10 people I meet are either enthusiastic Ceausescu supporters or, at least, they compare him very favorably with all current Romanian politicians.
Nicolae Ceaușescu's life ended the way most communist and socialist dictators do and so they should.
@@m_mitch Agree 100%. Pray that the liars thieves murderers and incompetents from our ANC govt in South Africa also get shot dead in our streets. Have wrecked all the infrastructure in the country turning it into a 3rd world toilet and looted billions of $ in public funds.
Just goes to show how stupid people who believe in communism are. Thats how they got hoodwinked in the first place.
Unfortunately, it's the human behaviour, the bad is disappeared fast and forgotten but the good remains massive solid in the heads and all converts into a farie tail bed time story. So this is it when next time soon an other dictator can grab the power like in Hungary.
That's insane how quickly people forget or gloss over the horrors.
Putin next…
USA 🇺🇸 government Bush,Obama,Clinton and Biden etc for killing millions of civilians in last 20 years! Millions of people. Putin is saint 🙏 compared to this evil
Noi suntem ofiteri legionari
It will be done differently in Russia.
Putin: I told you Generals to lead yet another suicide human wave assault in Ukraine, and not to fail it this time! What are you doing here?
One General (Grimly): Comrade President. Is time for your flying lesson.
Putin: Aaaiiieeee……..
what did you find in shops, supermarkets, pharmacies in the last 80's? Such as disposable diapers for babies (Pampers or other brands of diapers), cosmetic products, soaps, perfumes.
I ask for this information because I do not know how they used diapers on babies before the fall of the regime.
When the sovereign people get tired, it is bound to happen, soon it will be a country in Africa, very soon you will see.
Putin... A seguir..
Who's next? ))
Putin definitely
Send this link to Mr Putin....food for thought.
Das gleiche sollte man in Deutschland machen. Säubern.
Honey i dont think ee have to worry about dinner anymore😅😅😅😅
Viktor Orban should have this faith.
Viktor Orban is democratically elected by the people.
When the narrator says "They were shot," He means the Romanians gunned them down, no doubt with their Ak-47s-On Live Romanian TV.
Now, if only the American People would do that to the criminals in power in the US. Take the corporate owned trash out and deal with them.
You'd have to come up with well-documented instances of unabashed genocide in America. That may yet happen but it's not here yet
Cuba Nicaragua Venezuela , look at this
Justin Trudeau, be careful. Canadians have long patience but not ever-lasting.
Zelensky will face the same end as Ceausescu ...👍
He and his wife got off easy!
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Mama I thought you said tyranny and starvation would make us popular!!!!!!!