I have seen a documentary on Arte TV called Oh!Europe. At the end they speak about revolutions in '89 Europe forgetting the most dramatic one in which 1500 people died: The Romanian Revolution,.
First flame of revolution was extinguished in Iasi in 11-12 December when conspirators against the regime we re arrested, then it started all over again in 17 December in Timisoara when army open fire on demonstrators and in civilian buildings. One friend of mine told me that he left with parents their block apartment from Giroc street only to return at night and see the facade and windows pierced by bullets and pools of blood on pavement.
The wounded people from hospitals were shot and their bodies burned together with other victims. Their ashes were poured into the sewers. No one was found responsible.
On 21 December Nicolae Ceausescu called in for a meeting, the meeting turned against him, and people were dispersed. They made barricades at Intercontinental, and the light faded out in the evening shots were fired. They were around 100 braves, fortunately for them the soldiers were sympathetic and didn''t shoot them unless ordered and then they fired away.
On 22 December workers assembled from factories in front of Party Central Committee, Ceausescu fled. After this the killing contained and 1000 more, died.
The chant on the streets those day was: 'We will die and we will be free'. I cry that was not heard from French revolution 200 years earlier.
I don't know why this dramatic story doesn't fit in European picture ?
Only the west Europeans have fought for liberty? Values are more relative now because the left from the West was sympathetic to regimes from Eastern Europe?
Another topic that it was glossed over: 'The flying bridge to the Berlin' it was not only throwing packages with food from the airplanes. The US was ready to start a nuclear world war for defending that patch of land called West Berlin. If West Berlin fell, the Europe fell then the world fell to Stalin. It was freedom or death.
Ghinghis Han said that the walls are strong as the people defending them.
The last defending wall against soviets was the nuclear weapon.
If the people in the '50 didn't had values to die for , and they were not ready to face a quick nuclear war than to endure a communist regime, the western Europe have folded.
Without american citizens believing in freedom and democracy you wouldn't have GI landing in Normandy and the Germany would be 'freed' by Soviets, more German women would be raped, more factories dismantled and sent to Soviet Union together with thousand of slave workers.
Without american help and pressure, the french and Germans would have bickered till today.
US because its cities were not bombed by Nazi Germany was the cool head in the allied camp who constructed a seed for future union.
If in '45 the US would have been ruled by Trump he would reach to a consensus with Stalin: 'We take the European colonies, you take the western Europe'. Unfortunately today the US politicians don't have to even pretend that they care about the democracy and freedom. Freedom means options for common folk, and if the common folk has options it can't be squeezed of the last dollar.
Another remark:
The two women from video are saying something like: 'Americans throw food packages in West Berlin and napalm in Greece and Vietnam'
I never heard about napalm used in Grece civil war as I never heard of Americans fighting there.
Regarding the Vietnam civil war, US supported the non communist side and bombed the northern communist side. The communist and people from the north didn't represent all Vietnamese otherwise you would not have the dramatic images of helicopters overcrowded with civilians leaving Saigon and the boat people.
Europe unification it seems inevitable, in 1945 Europe could be united either by Hitler (he had support of former enemies such as Vichy France), either by Stalin or by US and UK.
First flame of revolution was extinguished in Iasi in 11-12 December when conspirators against the regime we re arrested, then it started all over again in 17 December in Timisoara when army open fire on demonstrators and in civilian buildings. One friend of mine told me that he left with parents their block apartment from Giroc street only to return at night and see the facade and windows pierced by bullets and pools of blood on pavement.
The wounded people from hospitals were shot and their bodies burned together with other victims. Their ashes were poured into the sewers. No one was found responsible.
On 21 December Nicolae Ceausescu called in for a meeting, the meeting turned against him, and people were dispersed. They made barricades at Intercontinental, and the light faded out in the evening shots were fired. They were around 100 braves, fortunately for them the soldiers were sympathetic and didn''t shoot them unless ordered and then they fired away.
On 22 December workers assembled from factories in front of Party Central Committee, Ceausescu fled. After this the killing contained and 1000 more, died.
The chant on the streets those day was: 'We will die and we will be free'. I cry that was not heard from French revolution 200 years earlier.
I don't know why this dramatic story doesn't fit in European picture ?
Only the west Europeans have fought for liberty? Values are more relative now because the left from the West was sympathetic to regimes from Eastern Europe?
Another topic that it was glossed over: 'The flying bridge to the Berlin' it was not only throwing packages with food from the airplanes. The US was ready to start a nuclear world war for defending that patch of land called West Berlin. If West Berlin fell, the Europe fell then the world fell to Stalin. It was freedom or death.
Ghinghis Han said that the walls are strong as the people defending them.
The last defending wall against soviets was the nuclear weapon.
If the people in the '50 didn't had values to die for , and they were not ready to face a quick nuclear war than to endure a communist regime, the western Europe have folded.
Without american citizens believing in freedom and democracy you wouldn't have GI landing in Normandy and the Germany would be 'freed' by Soviets, more German women would be raped, more factories dismantled and sent to Soviet Union together with thousand of slave workers.
Without american help and pressure, the french and Germans would have bickered till today.
US because its cities were not bombed by Nazi Germany was the cool head in the allied camp who constructed a seed for future union.
If in '45 the US would have been ruled by Trump he would reach to a consensus with Stalin: 'We take the European colonies, you take the western Europe'. Unfortunately today the US politicians don't have to even pretend that they care about the democracy and freedom. Freedom means options for common folk, and if the common folk has options it can't be squeezed of the last dollar.
Another remark:
The two women from video are saying something like: 'Americans throw food packages in West Berlin and napalm in Greece and Vietnam'
I never heard about napalm used in Grece civil war as I never heard of Americans fighting there.
Regarding the Vietnam civil war, US supported the non communist side and bombed the northern communist side. The communist and people from the north didn't represent all Vietnamese otherwise you would not have the dramatic images of helicopters overcrowded with civilians leaving Saigon and the boat people.
Europe unification it seems inevitable, in 1945 Europe could be united either by Hitler (he had support of former enemies such as Vichy France), either by Stalin or by US and UK.
