Romanian Dictator back from the Grave
Image via Wikipedia
Ex-Romanian Dictator Ceauşescu Exhumed: Forensic scientists have exhumed what are believed to be the bodies of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife Elena at the request of their children. Ceauşescu ruled Romania for 25 years with an iron first before being ousted and executed during the 1989 anti-communist revolt in which more than 1,000 people were killed. Some Romanians doubt that the Ceauşescus were really buried in the Ghencea military cemetery in west Bucharest.
Strange echoes of the legends surrounding Romania’s other famous tyrant Vlad Ţepeș AKA Dracula. It seems hard to believe there were any doubts about the Ceauşescus really being dead. They were hauled in front of TV cameras after being seized by an angry mob, and lined up against a wall to face a firing squad on Christmas day 1989.
Granted, the camera panned away as the volley of shots were fired, but a few moments later and the bodies of the most vile married couple in the Balkans – before Slobodan and Mirjana Milošević – were lying there plain to see. Rough justice perhaps, but justice nonetheless. Apparently, their bodies were then whisked away to a cemetery in Bucharest and buried in military cemetery with falsely marked gravestones. In the last few years, their children have pressed for the bodies to be exhumed and subjected to DNA tests. It will be another six months before there will be any conclusive test results, which will have the purpose of achieving… just what exactly, I really don’t know, except their son-in-law claims he will sue the Romanian state if the remains are not those of the gruesome couple. Gruesome? Well, the Ceauşescus starved the population while building a massive people’s palace, imposed Stalinist collectivism in the countryside, destroyed old churches and towns and replaced them with concrete housing projects – and in less than 25 years of iron rule, wreaked such devastation upon their native land that it will probably take another generation or two for Romania to recover. Let sleeping fascistic pig-dogs lie, would be my modest suggestion.
Post Your Comment
You must be logged in to post a comment
T/S Members
Log in with your True/Slant account.
It may seem an odd occupation for a globe-trotting, nightlife loving bachelor, but over the last few months, I’ve been writing a children’s book called The wild cats of Piran. It’s about a colony of feral cats who live in a small medieval town on the Adriatic sea. The book is intended to appeal to very bright 9 year olds and up. The sort of thing a bookish, cat loving adult could enjoy whipping through in a long afternoon sitting in a snug armchair by an open fire. A great believer in letting the work speak for itself, if you’re at all interested, I suggest you contact the author directly, 
Called-Out Comments All comments