Honey, new ITN combat footage (very wholesome) has been uploaded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-Ei3o8MpRc>absolute clusterfuck of infantry and militia all of the place>machine gun barrels popping off (literally)>civilians just sitting on the sidelines>everyone getting free cupcakes>Aldi bag spotted, this implies that Aldi Süd was funding Ceaușescu's regime
Makes me think a lot of revolutions in history were really drunken riots with just extra firepower. When a regime just keels over like that it's not mounting much resistance anyways.
And out all the eastern European communist regimes, the hardliners in Romania really did shoot back, or at least more than the others iirc and this is as best as they could do.
>>64627541https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_revolution#Fighting_and_continued_violence>There has yet to be any academic evidence for the idea that there were significant forces considered loyal to the old regime. Rather, the continued fighting which was seen after the flight of Ceaușescu is believed to have been a result of mistaken exchanges of fire from the general population and armed forces. There has been no academic evidence to suggest that Securitate units fought against the revolution.>When gunfights finally erupted outside and around the television studio, they were almost always the result of miscommunication. One such example is when a group of Patriotic Guardsmen took up a defensive position in a building close to the television centre on the 23rd. It has not been established who took the first shots at around 17:00, but a gunfight soon ensued with those in the television station returning fire onto the position of the Patriotic guards, according to an aid worker who had set up a first aid station at the side of the television station, and who said that, afterwards, the group of Patriotic Guardsmen would later deny that they had fired first. This is only one of many examples of gunfights between pro-revolution forces after the flight of Ceaușescu on the 22ndSeems like the revolution really needed some officers to lead their men.
>>64627541This seemed like a fun revolution to take part in. I want my revolutionary cupcake!
>>64627927my dad took part of it, he was armed by the military. my mom was returning home back from work in the middle of it, she told me bullets were flying above her
>>64627541>that webm
>>64627823This reinforces my belief that revolutions and civil wars are an even bigger IFF clusterfuck than regular wars.
>>64627702Yugoslavia: Am I a joke to you?
>>64627541Cool stuff, thanks OP.
>>64629421>>that webm>.mp4
>>64627823the crux of the "debate" here is even worse: whether the new, pro-Soviet government was basically a putsch.Thing is, some generals that were promoted afterwards (like gen. Militaru, who was later thrown out of military leadership by CADA, a generals' protest movement in jan-march 1990) were fairly open about being Soviet spies, especially after the USSR fell.This, mixed with the former Securitate trying to wash their hands and become influential through "Martie negru", the Mineriads, MLMs and shady political deals made people doubt a lot of normal, common sense things. Add nationalism in the mix, and it's even worse. Add corruption, and it goes darker.t.Romanian
>>64629437yes
>>64627541I'm sure there's a pollack joke in here somewhere
How come executing dictators on live TV never took off?
Because we live in a society.
