The college (university) in Romania was free and is still free with some exceptions. All citizens contribute. Of course there is alternatives like private schools but contrary to US state scholls are better than private.

We are the only nation in the world who executed his president on Christmas day

I was born in 81, I've seen some of it. I caught the hunger, the cold, censorship, no programs on TV .At some point the police suspected a neighbor for collaborating with Radio Free Europe and they arrested and interrogated a bunch of people in the hood , people that had nothing to do with it. They made threats on my mom to say everything she knows or they would take her kid ( me) away .My dad was actually born on Dec 22 , so on his birthday he was at the protests .I remember begging him not to go to Bucharest, fearing that he'd be killed. For months and months after I was still afraid of ''terrorists'', being shot randomly in the street or rigged toys or sweats .There were rumors circulating everywhere about all kinds of crazy things. The 90s were chaotic , dangerous and amazing . I remember when we got cable TV in our neighborhood that the streets were empty for a week. Everyone was watching everything . Thanks for another great video Mr. Giant !

at the end, after I asked him so many questions, he asked me: if the country had no more debts and we were in surplus, where is the money now? ❤

I'm not romanian, but I find the way Romania got rid of Ceausescu inspiring. In shows just how powerful ordinary people can be, when they unite. The speech from the balcony, when people started to grow restless and impatient with their dictator was very powerful in my opinion. You could see in his face the moment he realized that he was not all powerful anymore.

I am a Romanian and have US friends, and it's amazing how they don't realize anti-abortion (and not only) for us Eastern Europeans reopens wounds. We are relieving decades of pain in our history. Romanians are not violent, our history is as it is since we are at the crossroads (maybe we are the crossroad between East and West). Still, this you saw, this is the only mass shooting. And to better understand this revolution, for Western societies to understand it, Karl Marx was just an idealist behind all of it. It's more like Orwell's 1984, all is an illusion, and the sky will be red if communism wants to. Everyone not agreeing with the regime was deported, imprisoned, or simply killed (their close one never knew). Communism tried to create an ideal communist individual, by any imaginable mean. If you wonder why the young university students revolted first, they were the first persons that should be re-educated first into new communist humans. Some parts of literature (one of Paul Goma's books, if I remember correctly- Paul Goma was a Romanian dissident back then) say the Russians were scarred by the cruelty in Romanian gulags. If you want to react to these movies (or parts of them), you will have a voice and more visibility: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h8uDY8iLvbXFp2Q.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l9aJgKV1s9vZp30.html

The execution was televised i remember it came up before x-mas uncensored/uncut for years to follow

My father r.i.p was there on that roof with those ppl hwo menagge to enter the building ,but some students hwo protested was allready dead😢😢

Trebuie menționat că lipsa alimentelor din ani 1980 1989 se datorează împrumutului făcut de Ceaușescu de la fondurile monetare europene care la început a pus o dobîndă atractivă după care au pus niște dobînzi enorme pentru a ne indatora pe veci .Ce este interesant în 89 Ceau anunță public că a plătit toate datoriile externe și cunoaștem urmarea ,o revoluție sîngeroasă cu mare ajutor din Uniunea Sovietică și Statele unite urmarea instalarea unui trădători de țară care ne au îndatorat pe cîteva generatii ,Industria distrusă producția la pămînt românii plecați sclavi în agricultura altor țări și femeile plecate pentru a îngriji de bătrâni din europa lasindusi propriile familii fără educația de acasă

The masses with the help off the army , from there the saying :" Armata e cu noi!" - The army is with us. ❤

Yes the college were free, even now in Romania standard education is free and higher education almost free but you pay for accommodation and food.

i like the way you think, this is why i follow you., All respect.

Salut from Romania!!

The singer wanted to join the communist party and went to the committee. The committee questioned him: - Did you sing for the liberals? -I sing! -You bastard! - Did you sing at the conservatories? -I sing! -You bastard! -You sang in the Legionaries -I sing! -You bastard! When he got home, his wife questioned him, told him what happened. Wife: - And you couldn't tell them that you didn't sing? -How to lie woman? they were too!

I was there on Bucharest and my brothers where there, and one off the brothers was a soldier, i was soooo afraide, and only 6 years old 😢😢

We love you and Big România❤❤❤

Old soviet Era Communism is different than modern communism that is showing its teeth in the West or maybe elsewhere. That's why Abortion can be a 180degree difference. For example in Russia right now I bet that abortion is not seen with good eyes even if probably legal, and if things continue to go badly in the area I bet they will make it illegal if it isnt already. The Old style of communism was more nationalist focused, also had very strong borders, if you tried to flee Romania they would shoot you on the spot... or enter it. The "modern" far left is different, it disregards border often, very pro even illegal immigration , turning a blind eye, and obviously pro abortion as it has no nationalist element, in fact sometimes it almost feels like they hate their nation.

Hi Mr. Giant again ! The meetings in Yalta ( 1944) and Malta ( 1988 ) decided the fate of Romania !😢 The smalls countries are like a golf balls in the hands of big powers. I lived in communism 23 years and I hate it fron all my heart. 😢 The problem is the younger generation is returning to the same extremist mentality, but under different names. Another problem is that Rusian empire is closed to Romania and eastern Europe, and russians have the same imperialist mentality !😢 USA must to support Ukrain because maybe Romania will follow after the destruction of Ukraine. 😢 Respectly, Cristian

Nice Mr Giant

School/College was always free in Romania.

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You should listen our anthem with translation, that anthem was born with the revolution and also a slogan :" Armata e cu noi" = The army is with us ,and with the help off the army we menage to get down Ceaușescu

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Each socialist country had its own view of ideology, and some countries were forced to take over the power of the Communist Party because other parties collaborated with the Nazis, and in addition, only the Communists had weapons after the Soviets defeated the Nazis. However, Romania was among the poorest countries in Europe before communism, during and now after communism it is among the poorest.

Hard years, but we had to keep good thinks from comunism for our country ,and what was wrong to go away ,like be force to not travel ,or be force to make babys etc. Send you love from Romania. I am glad for the democracy ,but not for the drogs etc.

and the rock and blues music was prohibited in communism

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The thing is communism is state controlled. Thus when the Chinese Communist Party decided that over population was a problem they installed the one child policy. They put no restriction of abortion and would punish those who had a second child without permission which encouraged abortions. In Romania they decided they needed more population so they prevented abortions. Governments always try to set the rules they think are best. State colleges in the US were once very inexpensive but the states underfunded them so expense increased for the students. In 1966 working class people could afford to send kids to the less expensive commuter colleges without loans. The free colleges in communist countries were restricted to government approved programs. Colleges in the US can charge exorbitant fees for programs that will never lead to jobs where the loans can be repaid leading to the student debt crisis. At the same time trade schools can lead to very well paid careers.

College was free

I whore to you a comnent to explaine ,because my brother was a soldier and fitght on the revolution, i was 6y old .

M sons wife and her twin sister were 9 years old when the people revolt against the Communism region and they did get a free education.

Can there be peace when you are forced to follow rules? Because now with this democracy we have 50000 laws to respect. Which law is good, which law is not good? This will always be up for discussion. My opinion is that the only solution for peace would be as few laws as possible. I think 10 laws are enough.

Caucescu ousted, happened years ago surely ?

state school is bad in romania

Yes!! All true!! We struglle a lot 😢. And now the politicians are much worse ,they still & stiill and force romanian to live to work in other countrys😢

Romanian communism doesn't resemble with any other kind of communism because was a national socialism in disguise and very hard ANTI SOVIET after SOVIET-China split. president government etc open to west , but a very strict close door for citizen by government securitate to avoid any kind of capitalist ideology to spread. It worked for a while because Ceausescu still stand as first and last modern politician with 0 international debt and that's a fact in comparison In US currently that debt it's $33 trillion but with a cost of quality of life, people had money but nothing to spend on it because everything was strict and imposed or just illegal to own like capitalist goods and if by any chance some neighbor report your ass to securite with something like '' that guy have more than it should '' you were in a big trouble.. either interrogation, confiscated, imprisoned and sometimes all of above.

Hi Mr. Giant. all respect for what you are doing and trying to figure out Romania and the Romanians. The guy has some kind of an idea of how tings were, but it is not the reality. Yes, college education was free, but the number of seats was limited in each and every area, depending on the need of the economic sectors for highly educated specialists. So, in order to earn a seat in the college one had to go through highly competitive exams for admission. If one , for example, was to sit through exams to be admitted into the medical school, they had to have a great level of knowledge of the human anatomy, chemistry. biology. The marks were between 1 and 10 (top). You could often see on the list of admitted candidates marks like 10.00, then 9.99, then 9.98, and so on until someone with top mark like 9.65 would fail just because the number of seats was 34 and the competition so high. If one failed three courses in the first year, they lost their college seat. Upon graduation, based on the same competitive system, all graduated from all the colleges with same profile across the country were ordered from the country-wide top mark to the lowest and they were presented with a list of jobs across the country. Top marks had priority in choosing and they chose the first, followed by the others according to their graduating mark. According to the law you had to go and work at this job for at least three years, if you didn't, you had to pay the state back the counter-cost of tuition plus some penalty. This is how each and every corner and remote settlement of Romania had doctors, teachers. vets, etc. Right now, where I live, I haven't had a family doctor and haven't seen a doctor in years, because there are none. Thy go where they can get the big bucks to pay back their student loans.b Also, through the duration of what is called in North America "undergraduate" degree the students studied with a focus of 100% on their specialization, unlike here where they cannot take more than 50% , the other 50% being made up by expensive fillers, and then they have to do a so-called Master's which would be useless if students studied thoroughly during their 4-5 years degree. Education meant education and Universities were educational institutions, not business centres. The basis of general knowledge, like foreign languages (at least two, plus Latin(, math, national and international geography, domestic and world history, from ancient to modern one, chemistry, physic, world literature, music, home economics, constitution, biology, anatomy, zoology, botanics, technical and art drawing, physical ed all were taught through grades 1 to 12 (by the way, getting into high school was done the same way as getting into College. Who didn't make it went to vocational schools where they learned skilled trades) . So those years of communism were multifaceted. No one has the right to say they were black or white. We have to be fair and objective, otherwise, once we, the living witnesses of those years are gone, the history will be re-written and it will lie and distort the reality to fit some established narrative

Hello. I'm not speaking from my experience, being 12 years old I didn't really realize what was happening. but being a curious person by nature 😊 I talked about 15 years ago with a man born in 1940. he called the periods of communism at the beginning it was good for those who had nothing afterwards.. it started like this, it depends on where you lived in the city or in the country. in the country you had less control than in the city, since it was not only security, the neighbors were also a problem. they denounced you quickly. they were "patriots". abortion was a serious problem, you ended up in prison and so did homosexuals. but no one bothered the orphans who had nowhere to sleep and nothing to eat or wear. not to mention education. Part 1😅

Ceausescu did not want to tarnish the image of the police, so he called the miners to beat the protesters.

Romania diddn't defeat communism, communism defeated romania.

For example, in Yugoslavia, abortion was accepted as a result of practical rather than ideological considerations. Under communism, healthcare and education were free, despite the fact that for quite some time communist countries had the highest economic growth in the world, even though they had limited access to the richest markets. We must not forget that these were agrarian countries and became industrial within a decade. In the end, the situation began to deteriorate, because politicians began to care only about their positions and no longer about the socialist agenda. The first communists who started the revolution were mostly true ideologues, but later generations began to behave like the bourgeoisie.

Our parents where force to make babys. If you had an abvorsion you risk jail. Manny women died because off that. And kids grew without the love off parents