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

  • albigu
    27·
    2 years ago

    It might just be my lack of knowledge of the smaller European countries, but this is such a niche thing on a community that is technically not supposed to be an explicit anticommunist thing, that I feel this might be fedposting.

    It’s a neat trick, post something that confirms previously enforced biases, but not interesting or topical enough that many people will know about it and push back, or actually bother to research it.

    • SovereignStateEnglish
      27·
      2 years 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.

    • KiG V2
      23·
      2 years ago

      Could be. Could be just a conservative/fascist cold war history goon, lots of people who casually enjoy history quickly gobble anticommunism. But whether its a civilian or a spook, functionally they do they same thing.