I'm from Romania, there was a lot of talk that Gorbachev asked Ceausescu to resign, and offered him asylum in Russia, but I can't find a source for that. But l

I'm from Romania, there was a lot of talk that Gorbachev asked Ceausescu to resign, and offered him asylum in Russia, but I can't find a source for that. But look here, a soviet source says that Moscow would have intervened militarily to prevent Ceausescu's return: > “This victory will be a hundred times more valuable if it is won by the Romanian people themselves,” a senior Soviet official said. “We would definitely act to prevent Ceausescu’s return--by now, that has been made clear to all--but the victory belongs to the Romanian people and must be protected and developed by them. In this, they can count on our firmest support, but let the actions be theirs.” https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-12-24-mn-2156-story.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-12-24-mn-2156-s... > In reality, it may have been a carefully planned coup aided by the Soviet Union -- Mikhail Gorbachev's way of eliminating the troublesome despot Nicolae Ceausescu. > Through our sources cultivated in Bucharest and access to highly classified Central Intelligence Agency reports, we have learned that Moscow had a much more direct hand than previously revealed in the creation of the ruling Romanian party to replace the Ceausescu government, the National Salvation Front. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/09/22/soviet-hand-in-bucharest/b306c11f-df27-4c05-a63d-b6b37b00ea72/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/09/22/s...