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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Thanks for the detailed reply. In cases like this, it’s easy to miss the forest for the trees – the forest being the development of a country, and the trees being some flaws of its leader. The point I was trying to make with the Casa Poporului is that the average person would probably feel discontent with its massive size, while basic goods where rationed (I said sanctioned by mistake). I’ve read that a lot of stuff was rationed in an attempt to save as much money as possible in order to pay the IMF loans. So I assume that this was a harsh contradiction at the time.


  • Maybe as a Romanian you can give me some more nuanced input, but without a lot of research my idea is that Ceausescu was one of the worst leaders, maybe to the point that he did not go peacefully for the wrong reasons.

    I’ve read that people were evicted overnight in order to build the Palatul Parlamentului. But even if that is false, he started building it while basic goods were sanctioned which I imagine was not the most popular move. His house also seems needlessly luxurious.