The communist tyrant Ceausescu’s favorite descriptor for any person who held anti-communist views was “reactionary.” He even called Republicans “reactionary.” Any human who was not a communist was a “reactionary.”
Since he
took power in 1965, Ceausescu was the absolute ruler of everybody and
everything. His dear leader portraits were hung in public buildings, offices, courts,
classrooms, stores, on building fronts, and stores.
Anything the
tyrant wished became law with a scrawl of his pen. He could make life
unbearable for anyone. All the domestic media belonged to him and entertained his
every whim.
Scinteia (the spark) was the “official voice
of the Communist Party.” As the main indoctrinating rag, Scinteia dedicated
its front page to stories of what Ceausescu did the day before, “praising his
leadership in every facet of life.”
Every day
the radio and television broadcasts ended with the lying praise, “to the most
adored and esteemed son of the Romanian people.” People who were not boot
lickers of the Communist Party, hated his guts.
From time-to-time
important people defected to the west; Ceausescu was humiliated and took such
defections personally. The defectors were painful thorns in his side, and he
ordered their immediate capture and assassinations.
It was not
enough that he subjugated an entire population with his Communist Party
philosophy of imprisonment, famine, and death. It was not enough that he stole
their freedom, dignity, pride, and basic human rights. He wanted more, way
beyond the cult of personality which he had built around his persona. He wanted
to be the ultimate lord and god over their lives.
All came to
a halt one day, not because people finally had the courage to revolt, they did
not. Not because they were armed, they were not. Not because they were organized,
they were not. (They snitched on their own families to get a few extra crumbs
of food.) Not because the church united them, it did not. (The church worked
with and for the Communist Party and against its own parishioners.)
Ceausescu
was deposed in a KGB-GRU directed coup which installed its own Gorbachev protégé,
Ion Iliescu, to power. The same Communist and Security police individuals
stayed in place. Ceausescu and his wife were summarily executed, following a
brief army-directed trial on Christmas Day 1989.
People do
not realize that they can vote themselves into socialism/communism regimes
easily if they are not careful, but they cannot vote themselves out of
socialism/communism.
After the Ceausescus’
double execution, “unfair and unfree elections took place, giving victory to Communists.”
NSF (National Salvation Front) suppressed opposition parties and publications.
The Security Police intimidated people like before.
Funderburk wrote
that NSF-Iliescu-directed ‘miners’ beat up anti-Communist demonstrators and
trashed the opposition parties’ offices. Under the new communist rule, the
economy worsened during the winter of 1990-1991 when inflation tripled; wages
stayed the same except for the miners’ wages.
The
military-intelligence coup was planned months in advance by the Soviet KGB and
GRU. They conspired with a pro-Soviet group in Bucharest to remove Ceausescu by
using a popular uprising against Ceausescu. It was done to preserve communism and
reorganized it under different communists. The army was told to side with the
demonstrators and against the Ceausescus.
Funderburk
wrote, “The coup was masterfully staged and televised to the world.” Even the victims
of the “revolution,” shown as dozens of bodies allegedly gunned down by
Ceausescu forces, were actually “bodies in a pauper’s grave in advance stages
of decomposition.”
The National
Salvation Front (NSF) President, Ion Iliescu, was a life-long communist, Central
Committee member, and a friend of Gorbachev from their college days in Moscow.
The NSF
Prime Minister, Petre Roman, belonged to one of the oldest communist families
in Romania and close friends with Zoia Ceausescu (daughter of Nicolae and
Elena).
Local and
county-level Communist officials just changed their hats of allegiance to NSF.
NSF gave freedom
of travel and emigration, allowed contacts with the West, small private
enterprises, and created the “appearance of political participation for
non-communists.”
But the
electoral campaign and the actual election were a sham. NSF controlled
everything – information, jobs, salaries, police operations, communication, television,
radio, transportation, access to media, and every facet of life in Romania.
The
opposition to the NSF commies had their offices ransacked, people beaten, some
beaten to death, campaign headquarters broken into, all materials destroyed.
The election
was stolen long before the actual balloting took place. Election day violations
were widespread, ballot boxes were stuffed, ballots were pre-stamped for the
Front (NSF), police agent monitored the polls, manually placed people’s ballots
in boxes, and intimidated voters – secret voting was not possible.
Howard
Phillips, an observer, witnessed widespread fraud at numerous voting precincts
in and around Bucharest. He wrote, “in a country where going against the
government can cost you your home, your job, your freedom, or even your life,
it takes unusual courage for an impoverished peasant to risk voting against the
NSF in such circumstances.”
The fraud
was so unbelievable that over 17 million votes were cast in a country where the
electorate was only 16 million. Yet the regime in Washington categorized the
May 20, 1990, elections in Romania as fair.
Thus, the
stage was set for the globalist communists to thrive over the next three
decades. New foxes were in the henhouse.