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I've seen this live at TV in 1989

Hell yeah. Must of been crazy. I heard the next day. Was stunning as I traveled to East Germany and Poland that summer. Shit like this happens “fast”

I don't remember exactly I was 9 back then, but in less than 48 they caught them and executed them. Now no documentary shows the execution, but it was live on TV at the time. It marks you, it's as if I pulled the trigger. You have to be a bit of a psychopath to get over it...

Unreal man. I was 17 and had that summer taken a train from Frankfurt to Warsaw transiting East Germany. I spoke with many East Germans : they had zero hope of living in a free market economy, no hope at all. 3 months later the wall fell and then Romania, etc… Shit happens “fast”

True 💯

Too bad that Romania couldn't evolve șo fast like Est Germany, we were so indoctrinated with the comunist thinking... Even now at we have comunist people running the country... Too much corruption..., this year even Bulgaria has moved to Euro (as money), and we were rejected again. All prices are in EURO, and we are paid in RON. 🤬😡🤬😡

Euro is a ponzi scheme. Count your blessings you are not in the eurozone. The people in frankfurt and Brussels are not your friends. Once you join the eurozone, you are done.

I know it's a double-edged sword, but at the same time you have to eat, and when all the prices are in Euros and you get paid in RON, it makes a big difference. I don't know if you know, but 1Euro=5RON

You will not get paid more in eur. Everything will effectively increase in price. This is the experience of recent eurozone entrants.

My entire salary it's about 5000RON, that's 1000EURO

Fellow East-block pleb here. I'd say that live-tv execution of the dictator was a great start. My country didn't have even that. What was missing though was a great reckoning. Every commie from top to bottom should have been tared and feathered. Same for police, courts, the fucking border guards etc. Everyone involved in the secret police should have been hung on a lam post and left there for a couple weeks. What we (I mean the country I was born in) got was just a continuation of socialism. Politicians, police, courts, etc stayed the same. And some of them got even richer during the "privatization". The revolution in my country was, like all revolutions, just a sham sold to the sheep. 36 years later we happily accept Brussels's version of communism. We never learned the lesson. Never knew what freedom actually means. Then again, I suspect most people don't want freedom. I don't think they are not willing to pay the price. Hope I will be when the time comes...

Thanks for the zap ☺️🙏