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Funny Ceaușescu was considered "too progressive" in Warsaw Pact and wasn't invited to all top-level meetings. I've read he even built a highway on top of mounta
by bitL 9y ago
Funny Ceaușescu was considered "too progressive" in Warsaw Pact and wasn't invited to all top-level meetings. I've read he even built a highway on top of mountains to have an escape road in case WP's armies invaded RO.
- cat199 9y ago> Funny Ceaușescu was considered "too progressive" in Warsaw Pact and wasn't invited to all top-level meetings. Don't have actual insight here, but 'progressive' to a soviet bloc communist would likely mean 'ultra communist' e.g. hard line stalinist..
- bitL 9y agoAlright, then "dangerously regressive" would be a better term ;-)
- vetinari 9y agoHe was kind of black sheep. In 1968, he refused to take part in the invasion of Czechoslovakia.