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posted by sol, 30.11.2007, 17:37

"A large number of people were arbitrarily imprisoned for political, economic or unknown reasons: detainees in prisons or camps, deported, persons under house arrest, and administrative detainees. Political prisoners were also detained as psychiatric patients, estimations vary, from 60,000, to 80,000. There were hundreds of thousands of abuses, deaths and incidents of torture against a large range of people, from political opponents to ordinary citizens. Political prisoners were freed in a series of amnesties between 1962 and 1964. In total, it is estimated that up to two million people have lost their lives directly because of the regime."

"After the negotiated retreat of Soviet troops in 1958, Romania, under the new leadership of Nicolae Ceausescu, started to pursue independent policies."

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"A short-lived period of relative economic well-being and openness followed in the late 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s. As Romania's foreign debt sharply increased between 1977 and 1981 (from 3 to 10 billion US dollars), the influence of international financial organisations such as the IMF or the World Bank grew, conflicting with Nicolae Ceausescu's autarchic policies. Ceausescu eventually initiated a project of total reimbursement of the foreign debt (completed in 1989, shortly before his overthrow). To achieve this goal, he imposed policies that impoverished Romanians and exhausted the Romanian economy. He greatly extended the authority police state and imposed a cult of personality. These lead to a dramatic decrease in Ceausescu-popularity and culminated in his overthrow and death in the bloody Romanian Revolution of 1989."

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To sum it all up: Romania was made poor in the 40s and 50s under communism. The "prosperity" in the early 1970s was due to the country having borrowed a great deal of $ from other countries to rebuild. This is artificial wealth. That's why in 1977+ the country had such a hard time, it had to repay this debt.

Khusraw, the only communism you've ever experienced destroyed your country. You can't name a single country that's had successful communism or socialism, as though a distinction should really be made.

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