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
history ended, sweaty
What is the context on Romania/Yugoslavia joining the IMF?
this is the kind of shit u say when u are high on idealistic jenkem
Tangentially related, but I recall watching this Vice documentary about the “witch” mafia currently pulling more than a few Romanian politicians’ strings.
To indicate at how horribly anti-religious totalitarian Romania was, they reference a story of the eldest witch being confronted by Romanian authorities about scamming people with magic hexes and shit. They claim she beat the shit out of one of the officers with a broom, had to pay a fine and spent a night or two in jail.
Are you fucking serious? What do you think would happen if you beat an Amerikkkan police officer with a broom? Muhforitarian Romania! Gommunist atheism has gone too far!
https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/witchcraft-in-romania/57b2e3701c1fcfa454047341
If you were fairly unlucky they’d gun you down just for brandishing a broom.
CW racism
Literally saw a video of a black student on a US university campus picking litter. Cop shows up and starts shouting at him to drop his weapon (a litter picker). Student tells cop that he lives and studies there and is just cleaning up outside. Luckily other people see what’s happening and intervene to vouch for the guy but the cop is still a bastard and doesn’t relent. Can’t remember exactly what happened but you get the distinct feeling that if they’d been alone, the cop would’ve ended up killing the student for ‘wielding’ a litter picker in an otherwise empty car park.
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.
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.
hmmm i wonder why Romania’s population went from 23mil to 19 mil since 1990. could it be that despite all the issues Romania had, it still managed okay living standards?
The population was actual stable until Andrew Tate moved there, which instantly and singlehandedly caused a migration crisis.
Understandable.
