{"id":7922,"date":"2020-02-01T10:41:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T10:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autistici.org\/poderobrero\/?p=7922"},"modified":"2020-01-26T09:42:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T09:42:24","slug":"30-years-since-the-execution-of-ceausescu-who-has-benefited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autistici.org\/poderobrero\/articulos\/30-years-since-the-execution-of-ceausescu-who-has-benefited","title":{"rendered":"30 years since the execution of Ceausescu \u2014 Who has benefited?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty years have passed since the counterrevolutionary events in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idcommunism.com\/search\/label\/Romania\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Romania<\/a> and the execution of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idcommunism.com\/search\/label\/Nicolae%20Ceausescu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nicolae Ceausescu<\/a> and his wife, Elena. It was on December 25, 1989 when, after a hasty, parody trial before a Kangaroo court, the Ceausescu couple were executed in Targoviste, north of Bucharest.<\/p>\n<p>According to the head of the firing squad, Nicolae Ceausescu sang \u00abThe Internationale\u00bb while being led up against the wall. The execution of Ceausescu marked the end of the counter-revolutionary overthrow of Socialism in Romania and the beginning of a \u201cnew order\u201d in the country.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Ceausescu is an exemplary case of how western media manipulate the image of a politician. When, for example, Romania did not participate in the intervention of the Warsaw Pact armies in Czechoslovakia in 1968, the West praised Ceausescu as a \u201cgood pal\u201d within the eastern bloc. When Romania accepted to participate in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympiad (which was boycotted by the other Socialist countries), western media again praised Nicolae Ceausescu for his \u201cdisobedience towards Moscow\u201d. However, this changed when the Romanian leader distanced himself from Gorbachev&#8217;s counter-revolutionary line of \u201ccompromise\u201d with Imperialism. Then, the directed western media propaganda started to present Ceausescu as the \u201cDracula\u201d, demonizing his leadership. The \u201cgood guy\u201d of the eastern bloc rapidly transformed into a \u201cbrutal dictator\u201d in the eyes of the so-called international community.<\/span><br \/>\n<span lang=\"en-US\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In 1989, Romania was the only Socialist country (except from Albania) which had no standing debts. That, because on March 1989 Romania had repaid all of her external debt which had been accumulated mainly in the 1970s. Romania had become debt-free and independent from Imperialism- that was Ceausescu&#8217;s crime that the imperialists couldn&#8217;t forgive. The western media, in collaboration with Romanian counter-revolutionaries and traitors, created the \u201cmonster\u201d of \u201cSecuritate\u201d (the notorious secret police of Romania). What has been said in the West about \u201cSecuritate\u201d could definitely exist as an outrageous Hollywood movie scenario.<\/p>\n<p>However, according to the 1989 reports of western international non-governmental organisations, like \u201cAmnesty International\u201d (which is certainly not communist-friendly), there were just 27 (twenty seven) non-violent political detainees and just 1 (one) detainee died from mistreatment. Nothing more is written in the official report of \u201cAmnesty International\u201d about the so-called \u201cSecuritate&#8217;s reign of terror\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>We could refer extensively to the imperialist-backed, counter-revolutionary plot which created the December 1989 events and the overthrow of Ceausescu. That could be the subject of a future article.<\/p>\n<p>In the following lines, we present how romanian people perceive the living capitalist hell which was created after the overthrow of Socialism in Romania, as it is reflected in polls, articles and analysis of bourgeois sources. The people of Romania are still paying for Capitalism&#8217;s restoration: rapid increase of public debt, high unemployment, extended privatizations, complete destruction of the welfare state, rise of poverty and homelesness, persecutions against communists, etc.<\/p>\n<p><b>SOME FACTS ABOUT LIFE IN CAPITALIST ROMANIA<\/b><\/p>\n<p>On the occasion of the 30 years since the overthrow of socialism and the restoration of capitalism, the Romanian Academy assigned the conduction of a research regarding the romanian public opinion on several issues.<\/p>\n<p>The survey, which took place between 12 April and 3 May 2019, was conducted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inscop.ro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">INSCOP Research<\/a> Institute and the <a href=\"https:\/\/larics.ro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Laboratory of Informational War and Strategic Communication<\/a> (LARICS). The research included issues such as the national pride of the Romanian people and their view over a possible union of the country with the Republic of Moldova.<\/p>\n<p>However, the most interesting outcome of the survey is the percentage of those who have a positive view over the old \u00abcommunist regime\u00bb, despite the persistent bourgeois anticommunist propaganda that exists in Romania for 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>More specifically, the 27.2% of the participants replied that \u00abcommunism\u00bb (socialism) offered many positive things to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idcommunism.com\/search\/label\/Romania\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Romania<\/a> in comparison with today&#8217;s capitalism. A negative opinion about communism (socialism) was expressed by the 29.6% of the respondents. But this is not the end of the story.<\/p>\n<p>A 34.3% of Romanians did not answer directly to the question but, instead, they made a distinction, dividing the \u00abcommunist period\u00bb in two periods.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The first period, from 1947 to 1965, which has been known as the \u00abRomanian People&#8217;s Republic (RPR)\u00bb. This phase of socialism in Romania receives extaordinary positive views by the respondents.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The second period, from 1965 to 1989, the period of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idcommunism.com\/search\/label\/Nicolae%20Ceausescu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nicolae Ceausescu<\/a> which has been known as the \u00abSocialist Republic of Romania\u00bb receives more negative opinions.<\/p>\n<p>In the same question, 8.9% of the participants in the survey did not give any answer.<\/p>\n<p>The assumption from this interesting research is that a total of 61.5% of Romanians have a positive view on communism, at least for the first period of socialist construction, from 1947 to 1965. The negative views are concentrated on the period of Ceausescu&#8217;s leadership, when Romania left the Warsaw Pact, adopted a pro-western stance and began strengthening aspects of \u00abmarket economy\u00bb within the socialist system.<\/p>\n<p>The results of the above survey confirms a tendency that exists in Romania for more than a decade. In July 2010, a similar research conducted by the Romanian Institute of Evaluation and Strategy (Institutul Rom\u00e2n pentru Evaluare \u015fi Strategie \u2014IRES) had shown that 63% of the Romanians regarded life under socialism (pre 1989) as better and a 43% of them would vote for Nicolae Ceausescu if he was a candidate in the elections.<\/p>\n<p>It is in the same country &#8211; member of the European Union &#8211; that the bourgeois state has outlawed the Communist Party and its symbols and persecutes any political activity related to socialism-communism.<\/p>\n<p><b>* * *<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span lang=\"en-US\">Child poverty in Romania has worsened since EU accession<\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<b><span lang=\"en-US\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Source: Independent, 2 December 2015.<\/p>\n<p>More than half of all children (51%) under 18 in Romania are at risk of poverty, more so than when the Eastern European country joined the EU in 2007 (50.5%), data has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The research by <a href=\"http:\/\/appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu\/nui\/show.do\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eurostat<\/a>, which was carried out over all 28 EU countries, positions Romania with the highest threat to children at risk of poverty in the EU, ahead of Bulgaria, which has seen a 16.2% drop from 61% to 45.2%.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>Poverty rates in Romania tend to be highest in rural areas, where 45% of the country\u2019s population live &#8211; the highest proportion in the EU &#8211; and where a lack of infrastructure blights the countryside, affecting everything from schools to medical facilities. Romania\u2019s highest point of child poverty risk was in 2012 with 52.3%.<\/p>\n<p>70% of this rural population, according to The World Bank, are living in poverty due to authorities\u2019 inability to intervene appropriately.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Fuentes<\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idcommunism.com\/2019\/12\/30-years-since-execution-of-ceausescu-who-has-benefited.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.idcommunism.com\/2019\/12\/30-years-since-execution-of-ceausescu-who-has-benefited.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty years have passed since the counterrevolutionary events in Romania and the execution of Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena. It was on December 25, 1989 when, after a hasty, parody trial before a Kangaroo court, the Ceausescu couple were executed in Targoviste, north of Bucharest. According to the head of the firing squad, Nicolae &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autistici.org\/poderobrero\/articulos\/30-years-since-the-execution-of-ceausescu-who-has-benefited\" class=\"more-link\">Continuar leyendo<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u00ab30 years since the execution of Ceausescu \u2014 Who has benefited?\u00bb<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[415,379],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autistici.org\/poderobrero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autistici.org\/poderobrero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autistici.org\/poderobrero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autistici.org\/poderobrero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autistici.org\/poderobrero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.autistici.org\/poderobrero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autistici.org\/poderobrero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autistici.org\/poderobrero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autistici.org\/poderobrero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}