The Romanian Answer to Dictators
Saddam is the subject, but we’ll get to him later. First, a brief look back.
Romania had a despotic dictator for decades, one of those lovely guys who threw the opposition into prison, shot seventy brown bears in one afternoon just for sport and generally ran the country to suit himself. Nicolai Ceaucescu was his name, the communist president of Romania from 1967 until 1989, when he was overthrown and executed in a popular revolution. In ’89 the wheels came off communism everywhere.
They didn’t mess around with Nick. Once the palace was surrounded, they grabbed him and his wife by the scruffs of their necks, ran them before a judge who stamped a death warrant and then dragged both of them into the nearest courtyard and shot them. Romania was not about to have a protracted show-trial for a couple of bums.
What has it been now, three years that Slobodan Milosevic, the deposed Yugoslavian president has been on trial in the Hague? Crimes against humanity. The style today is to do the crimes…