The misery and starvation subsistence that Romanians had to endure for decades, while the media, political apparatchiks and the Ceausescus rolled in the lap of luxury, finally exploded into revolt
In his cold war classic, Red Horizons, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest defector from a communist regime, wrote that “the Romanian revolution of 1989 was the first one in history to have been started by the news media and won by the television cameras.”
The misery and starvation subsistence that Romanians had to endure for decades, while the media, political apparatchiks and the Ceausescus rolled in the lap of luxury, finally exploded into revolt.