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"Ukrainians aren't grateful enough to the USSR for giving them a society! Holodomor is US State Department propaganda!"
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this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2025
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Just wait until you start hearing defenses of Ceaușescu and the Securitate.
My best friend growing up had Romanian parents who had escaped Causescu. They didn't tell us the bad stories.
I do know his dad had his index finger on his right hand partially cut off. He used to tell my friend that a bear ate it. Years later, I realized that was the finger you would use to pull a trigger and he was not the type of guy who would have willingly signed up to be in the Romanian military in the 1960s.
As someone who knows nothing about Eastern Bloc history, what was wrong with the Romanian military in the 1960s?
Better to read about Causescu than the military itself. He was a monster. After he was finally deposed, he was convicted of genocide against his own people in a Romanian court because he was responsible for over 60,000 deaths.
The military was one the many tools in his arsenal.
Holy fuck. Props to your best friend's dad; not enough people have the principles to follow through on something like that.