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On the other hand Romania is having startling amount of nostalgia over the communist regime https://euobserver.com/news/30890 https://euobserver.com/news/30890

• tsimionescu 5y ago
  Sure, but I would attribute that much more to modern propaganda than historical, mostly because many of the communist elites are even today clinging to power (and have been in power since the revolution). Romania is also experiencing all of the ills of modern capitalism, and Ceaușescu is a common nationalist icon, so the same social forces putting Le Pen, Boris Johnson, or Trump in power or close to it are fueling "communist" (populist nationalist) nostalgia in Romania. People pine for "free jobs" and "free houses", "no foreign interference", "tough on crime police", not for Systematization, farming co-ops and other more left-leaning ideals (not that they should pine for those, as they were done in an almost maximally harmful way in practice).