May 20, 1990, elections in Romania: The stage was set for the globalist communists to thrive over the next three decades. New foxes were in the henhouse.
The communist tyrant Ceausescu’s favorite descriptor for any person who held anti-communist views was “reactionary.” He even called Republicans “reactionary.” Any human who was not a communist was a “reactionary.”
Since he took power in 1965, Ceausescu was the absolute ruler of everybody and everything. His dear leader portraits were hung in public buildings, offices, courts, classrooms, stores, on building fronts, and stores.
Anything the tyrant wished became law with a scrawl of his pen. He could make life unbearable for anyone. All the domestic media belonged to him and entertained his every whim.
Scinteia (the spark) was the “official voice of the Communist Party.” As the main indoctrinating rag, Scinteia dedicated its front page to stories of what Ceausescu did the day before, “praising his leadership in every facet of life.”
Every day the radio and television broadcasts ended with the lying praise, “to the most adored and esteemed son of the Romanian people.” People who were not boot lickers of the Communist Party, hated his guts.
From time-to-time important people defected to the west; Ceausescu was humiliated and took such defections personally. The defectors were painful thorns in his side, and he ordered their immediate capture and assassinations.
It was not enough that he subjugated an entire population with his Communist Party philosophy of imprisonment, famine, and death. It was not enough that he stole their freedom, dignity, pride, and basic human rights. He wanted more, way beyond the cult of personality which he had built around his persona. He wanted to be the ultimate lord and god over their lives.
All came to a halt one day, not because people finally had the courage to revolt, they did not. Not because they were armed, they were not. Not because they were organized, they were not. (They snitched on their own families to get a few extra crumbs of food.) Not because the church united them, it did not. (The church worked with and for the Communist Party and against its own parishioners.)
Ceausescu was deposed in a KGB-GRU directed coup which installed its own Gorbachev protégé, Ion Iliescu, to power. The same Communist and Security police individuals stayed in place. Ceausescu and his wife were summarily executed, following a brief army-directed trial on Christmas Day 1989.
People do not realize that they can vote themselves into socialism/communism regimes easily if they are not careful, but they cannot vote themselves out of socialism/communism.
After the Ceausescus’ double execution, “unfair and unfree elections took place, giving victory to Communists.” NSF (National Salvation Front) suppressed opposition parties and publications. The Security Police intimidated people like before.
Funderburk wrote that NSF-Iliescu-directed ‘miners’ beat up anti-Communist demonstrators and trashed the opposition parties’ offices. Under the new communist rule, the economy worsened during the winter of 1990-1991 when inflation tripled; wages stayed the same except for the miners’ wages.
The military-intelligence coup was planned months in advance by the Soviet KGB and GRU. They conspired with a pro-Soviet group in Bucharest to remove Ceausescu by using a popular uprising against Ceausescu. It was done to preserve communism and reorganized it under different communists. The army was told to side with the demonstrators and against the Ceausescus.
Funderburk wrote, “The coup was masterfully staged and televised to the world.” Even the victims of the “revolution,” shown as dozens of bodies allegedly gunned down by Ceausescu forces, were actually “bodies in a pauper’s grave in advance stages of decomposition.”
The National Salvation Front (NSF) President, Ion Iliescu, was a life-long communist, Central Committee member, and a friend of Gorbachev from their college days in Moscow.
The NSF Prime Minister, Petre Roman, belonged to one of the oldest communist families in Romania and was close friends with Zoia Ceausescu (daughter of Nicolae and Elena).
Local and county-level Communist officials just changed their hats of allegiance to NSF.
NSF gave freedom of travel and emigration, allowed contacts with the West, small private enterprises, and created the “appearance of political participation for non-communists.”
But the electoral campaign and the actual election were a sham. NSF controlled everything—information, jobs, salaries, police operations, communication, television, radio, transportation, access to media, and every facet of life in Romania.
The opposition to the NSF commies had their offices ransacked, people beaten, some beaten to death, campaign headquarters broken into, all materials destroyed.
The election was stolen long before the actual balloting took place. Election day violations were widespread, ballot boxes were stuffed, ballots were pre-stamped for the Front (NSF), police agent monitored the polls, manually placed people’s ballots in boxes, and intimidated voters—secret voting was not possible.
Howard Phillips, an observer, witnessed widespread fraud at numerous voting precincts in and around Bucharest. He wrote, “in a country where going against the government can cost you your home, your job, your freedom, or even your life, it takes unusual courage for an impoverished peasant to risk voting against the NSF in such circumstances.”
The fraud was so unbelievable that over 17 million votes were cast in a country where the electorate was only 16 million. Yet the regime in Washington categorized the May 20, 1990, elections in Romania as fair.
Thus, the stage was set for the globalist communists to thrive over the next three decades. New foxes were in the henhouse.
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