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@AnneRabe2 @derspiegel As a Romanian living in #Germany, I find this insulting and misleading on many levels. First of all, #Ceaușescu did not set a room temperature in #Romania, because he would have been in breach of his own policies. 1/n.
@AnneRabe2 @derspiegel First and foremost, we had central heating whenever we had energy supplies for the local burners. That was maybe a few hours a day when the radiators were, maybe, 30+ degree Celsius.
@AnneRabe2 @derspiegel Individual heating was not really available in most places - yes, we had fireplaces/ stoves, but it was difficult to find wood/ coal for them, unless you worked for companies dealing with wood// coal. So a big no for most people.
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1/ #Diplomatie et #gastronomie. La @BMDijonPat possède en ligne une imposante collection de menus de repas officiels, notamment ceux de la présidence de la République. #Florilège. On commence avec le repas offert par Félix #Faure au #tsar Nicolas II, le 6 octobre 1896. #Russie. ImageImageImageImage
2/ Dîner offert au souverain britannique #GeorgeV par Raymond #Poincaré, le 21 avril 1914. ImageImageImage
3/ Ferdinand Ier, roi de #Roumanie, reçu par Alexandre #Millerand, le 10 avril 1924. ImageImageImage
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Quando o ditador #Ceaușescu caiu na Romênia não esperava a reação popular de desaprovação a um de seus comícios, ele não imaginava o contrabando de antenas parabólicas capturando o sinal de países vizinhos onde se noticiava o fim do @comunismo na URSS e seus satélites,
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ele não contava com o poder da informação e a indignação que isso gera em quem se vê como enganado. Além da repressão bruta, a mentira é a principal força que esvanece dos regimes #totalitários. A internet que levou à #PrimaveraÁrabe, no norte da África foi um caso recente.
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O #embargo econômico dos EUA existe há mais de seis décadas e por que só agora teria seu efeito destruidor sobre o regime cubano? Depois disso tivemos o fim dos subsídios soviéticos, com a extinção da própria URSS. Tivemos o sandinismo na Nicarágua, o chavismo na Venezuela e
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Bombshell directly relevant to #Maidan in #Ukraine: Ex-president & 3 other leaders of 1989 #Romania 'revolution' are charged with crimes against humanity for using disinformation & diversion to provoke #FalseFlag mass killings to legitimize their power rferl.org/a/romanian-ex-…
Prosecution charges state that these & other leaders of the new Romanian government provoked mass killings of their own supporters by their other supporters by using diversions that Ceausescu security services snipers & other loyalists were doing killings g4media.ro/ion-iliescu-si…
English-language version of prosecution charges summary agerpres.ro/english/2018/1…
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