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Bucharest 22/12/89 OK, here is where it starts to get murky. After the mixed reception Ceauşescu received for his speech the previous day, he and his wife were stuck in Casa Centrala until after nightfall. The entire city was in uproar, and it wasnt safe for the to leave the building, until the small hours of the 22nd. But then they didnt. They stayed put, and waited for detachments of jandarmeria to suppress the uprising. Was that their own obstinacy, or were they advised to remain there? Because around them its complete chaos. Minister of Defence General Vasile Milea is dead, shot through the heart. Possibly suicide, possibly possibly summary execution by the securitate, for refusing to order his troops to open fire on unarmed protestors. The army believe the latter, and the process that had begun the previous day completes. They go over en-masse to the side of the revolutionaries. Armata e cu noi! Armata e cu noi! is the cry across Bucharest and across the country, The army is with us!. Mileas deputy, General Victor Stanculescu - who had endorsed Elena Ceauşescus order to shoot to kill in Timişoara - cannot be found. He has taken his wifes advice and is hiding in a hospital, having a cast put on a bogus broken leg. And a group of plotters based around first generation Stalinist Silviu Brucan and ex-heir-apparent Ion Iliescu is frantically bringing forward their plans for coup intended for the following spring. In the streets is that order has broken down. The people are out in even greater numbers than the day before. And the army is with them. Because in a country with conscription the army *was* them and *is* them - their sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, classmates and neighbours. They break down the doors of Casa Centrala and begin to ransack the place. Panicking, the Ceauşescus are practically carried to the roof where a helicopter is waiting, revolutionaries at their heels https://youtube/watch?v=3AIoZ7McaQ8#t=38m32s
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:04:00 +0000

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