https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/bd55bd4f-9b36-4962-a1c5-d03ac0ed5580 Use code HAKIM at https://incogni.com/hakim or by scanning the QR code to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan! Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ComradeHakim Twitter: @YaBoiHakim 00:00 Introduction 00:34 Historical Context 02:45 CIA and Intelligence Interference 06:24 What Happened in 1989 08:15 The "Reconstruction" of Romania 10:08 The Robbing of the Romanian People 14:43 Conclusion Sources: Sources aren't properly ordered because I'm exhausted lmao http://epa.niif.hu/02300/02341/00001/pdf/EPA02341_ceu_2006_01_25-44.pdf, https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/vh53ww095, https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/Pdabl817.pdf, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1081/PAD-120006134,, https://ceswp.uaic.ro/articles/CESWP2014_VI3_HAG.pdf, https://www.hse.ru/data/283/636/1233/1Tache_Moscow.pdf, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0967067X9500022M?via%3Dihub, https://www.proquest.com/docview/1655116155?sourcetype=Working%20Papers, https://ceswp.uaic.ro/articles/CESWP2014_VI3_HAG.pdf, https://www.hse.ru/data/283/636/1233/1Tache_Moscow.pdf, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ecot.12140, https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2023/08/28/romania-s-demographic-decline-is-crippling-its-economy_6111720_19.html, https://www.europeandatajournalism.eu/cp_data_news/rural-depopulation-is-playing-a-major-role-in-causing-fires-in-romania/, https://www.nzz.ch/english/romania-grapples-with-growing-problem-of-trafficking-in-women-ld.1757474, https://slavefreetoday.org/journal_of_modern_slavery/v8i1a3-europes-migrant-human-trafficking-a-case-study-of-romanias-sexually-exploited-women.pdf, BBC. “Romania profile - Timeline.” BBC, 8 October 2018, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17776876. Accessed 1 March 2024., Blunden, Andy. “The Collapse of Eastern Europe.” Stalinism: It’s Origin and Future, https://www.marxists.org/subject/stalinism/origins-future/ch4-1.htm. Accessed 19 February 2024., Britannica. “Romania - Communist Rule, Securitate, Ceausescu.” Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/place/Romania/Communist-Romania. Accessed 1 March 2024., Chirileasa, Andrei. “Investigation of fall of communism in Romania gets nowhere 30 years on.” Romania Insider, 24 May 2021, https://www.romania-insider.com/iliescu-revolution-trial-may-2021. Accessed 20 February 2024., Condrea, Diana. “Romania 100 - 100 Years in the History of Romania: The Most Important Events.” Uncover Romania, https://www.uncover-romania.com/romania-100/100-years-of-romania/. Accessed 1 March 2024., DAOU, Marc. “Twenty years later, Timisoara affair exposes media credulity.” France 24, 20 December 2009, https://www.france24.com/en/20091220-twenty-years-later-timisoara-affair-exposes-media-credulity. Accessed 20 February 2024., Gorky, Patricia. “Romania: 30 years removed from socialism – Liberation News.” Liberation News, 26 December 2019, https://www.liberationnews.org/romania-30-years/. Accessed 20 February 2024., Marcy, Sam, et al. “[Sam Marcy]: General admits long-term coup planning (Jan. 11, 1990).” Workers World, 11 January 1990, https://www.workers.org/marcy/1990/sm900111.html. Accessed 20 February 2024., Maria, Ana, and Denoel Paris. “Romania's 1989 Uprising Was 'Orchestrated', Prosecutors Say.” Balkan Insight, 18 December 2017, https://balkaninsight.com/2017/12/18/romania-s-1989-uprising-was-staged-prosecutor-say-12-18-2017/. Accessed 20 February 2024., Paun, Carmen. “Thirty years after Romanian revolution, questions remain.” POLITICO.eu, 25 December 2019, https://www.politico.eu/article/thirty-years-after-romanian-revolution-questions-remain-death-of-nicolae-ceausescu/. Accessed 20 February 2024., Romania Insider Editor. “Declassified C.I.A. documents show Ceausescu succession scenarios, Romania's economic situation.” Romania Insider, 19 February 2017, https://www.romania-insider.com/recently-declassified-c-documents-show-ceausescu-succession-scenarios-romanias-economic-situation. Accessed 20 February 2024., Capturing the Romanian Revolution: Violent Imagery, Affect, and the Televisual Event. McGill University. Retrieved from https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/vh53ww095, Szabo, L.-V. (n.d.). The Democracy Deficit: From the Revolution of Timișoara to the Proclamation of Timișoara. Retrieved from http://epa.niif.hu/02300/02341/00001/pdf/EPA02341_ceu_2006_01_25-44.pdf Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:10:02 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/bd55bd4f-9b36-4962-a1c5-d03ac0ed5580 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.