No mention of why Romania was in such a bad state. Turns out it was the same playbook as today with the Global South. Romania gets IMF loans mid 70s. And just like John Perkins discusses in his book ‘confessions of an Economic Hitman’, the IMF made the terms of the loan contingent on austerity. Then due to global macroeconomic conditions and interest rate hikes, Romania can’t repay the debts and starts to implode. This of course by design as per IMF/World bank strategy.

The people rise up against AUSTERITY but libs scream about ‘communist dictatorship’.

Zero historical context. Just ‘Communism bad, mmmkay?’. Like the Ukraine proxy war, nothing happened before Russia invaded. No it was ‘totally unprovoked’.

Here’s the background of this lemmy.world propaganda:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania_and_the_International_Monetary_Fund

  • SovereignState@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Romanian revolutionaries

    brutal [capital-C] Communist dictator

    popular uprising

    I’m glad I’m not the only one that caught a whiff of that Langley, Virginia air. It is too manicured, too evocative, too… Western news media.

    Let me try and fix it.

    Western-backed fascist paramilitary group

    General Secretary of the ruling Romanian Communist Party

    illegal U.S. sanctioned coup d’etat that deposed a ruling party consisting of 4 million people and replaced it with bourgeois minority rule wherein only a fraction of a percent of Romanians were allowed political power.