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I don't know what part seems cruel to you of explaining that the Nazi project, which the Soviets stopped, included the enslavement of genocide of all non-German peoples between Berlin and the Urals, Romania included (sooner or later). Since you're Romanian, the Soviets also literally saved you from your own fascist regime. I do not wish harm on you or your family, rather the opposite, I'm thanking the Soviets for saving them.
Literally not a thing, stop manufacturing nonexisting genocides. There was repression under Ceausescu, but there was absolutely no genocide. Can you please link me up to what you're referring to as "genocide"?
As for what the Ceausescu government did in Romania, per data from the Romanian Statistical Review: Between 1950 and 1989, Romania's GDP grew by 850%. The country went between 1950 and 1989 from being composed of 86% agricultural workers (essentially a feudalist state), to being an industrialized society with 46% of the population working in the industrial sector. This industrial revolution literally turned a nation of starving peasants into a rather modern and industrialized country with infrastructure, guaranteed housing, free education, universal healthcare and guaranteed jobs with no unemployment.
Look at what happened to the population of Romania after Ceausescu:
4 million in population losses... It's really no wonder that even after 3+ decades of anticommunist propaganda, the majority of Romanians still view Ceausescu as a good leader and believe that life was better in socialist Romania.
Romania's GDP grew 550% from 1989 to 2026. See? I can do that do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Romania
By 1989 Romanians were starving. Supermarket shelves were empty. Money meant nothing.
And, hey, where were all the disabled people? Can you find one? You can't. He put them away, like the nazis. One of the "disabilities" the regime treated in their institutions? Not being white. That's right. Being part of an ethnic minority was considered a disability. Remind you of a certain Adolf? https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1044207311394853
Political opposition? Freedom of speech? None of that. My uncle can attest to that. Oh wait, he can't. He spoke ill of the regime while in compulsory military training and they "took care" of him. But maybe my grandfather can tell you about his career as a police officer-ohnowait he got canned for not being loyal enough to the regime and had to move his family from the city to a remote village.
Healthcare? Let's ask my aunt. Oh shit, wait, we can't. She died at 5 of pneumonia cause there were no doctors in her village and no medication at the hospital.
How about that housing? Did you know people had wood burners in their apartments cause there was no heating? What about the blackouts? Power went out daily for hours.
Industry? Pollution. My parents worked in a coal-burning power plant. Romania's energy was 47% renewable last year.
Fuck you know. You know nothing. You're just some propagandist on the internet. My parents lived through it themselves and I live in Romania today. I moved back to it from London. Cause that trend of people emigrating is reversing now thanks to investments from the EU. What you're seeing there is Romania joining the EU. You see those last few dots there? See how flat that line is? You don't know shit. Ceausescu's isolationism has nothing on that.
EDIT: Oh and one more thing. Just cause the soviets fought the nazis doesn't make them good. They didn't do it out of the kindness of their hearts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_occupations_by_the_Soviet_Union You may recognize some of those territories as territories Putin is currently trying to regain. I don't suppose you like him too.
Your arguments are so weak I didn't even get mad. I'd call it ragebait but it's not even that. It's like you got high, listened to a really trashy music album and thought it was the best thing you ever heard. In fact, I resent you for wasting my time, making me type up all this stuff that other people know or don't need to be told.
EDIT 2: This is how you know the left is better than the right. Even our extremists are higher quality. Theirs are unintelligible. At least ours write full paragraphs instead of ragebait catchphrases