https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/d68ce638-2da9-43ab-9ceb-348b74e97683 Get a 7-day free trial and 25% off Blinkist Annual Premium by clicking: https://bit.ly/HakimApr24 DEPROGRAM PODCAST: https://open.spotify.com/show/7tk1sTZDeE8p9lnxYLy4Ky Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ComradeHakim Twitter: @YaBoiHakim 00:00 Introduction 01:05 The "Simple" History of 89 and Context 05:26 "Bread-lines!" Nonsense 06:26 Coup Beginnings, Foreign Funding and Meddling 11:26 The Fall and Shock Therapy 16:20 Conclusion General sources: This was a part of a larger video, so the sources are for basically all parts in one. I don't have the time to sift them out individually for this vid sadly. 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. 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