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Romania voted out their authoritarian ruler with a firing squad back in the mid to late 80s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu https://en.
by jjtheblunt 4y ago
Romania voted out their authoritarian ruler with a firing squad back in the mid to late 80s.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu
- xuhu 4y agoIt could be said that Europe collectively voted out communism at the end of the 80's.
- ElectricalUnion 4y agos/communism/socialism/g
- BrandoElFollito 4y agoAs a French I wonder what your are talking about.
- Seb-C 4y agoAs a French living abroad, I totally understand what he means.
- BrandoElFollito 4y agoWhich is what?
- ymolodtsov 4y agoOnly when the USSR no longer had the means to stop this.
- m_fayer 4y agoRussia has become totalitarian, not just authoritarian. That’s an important distinction, totalitarian societies have much less capacity for independent action.
- sterlind 4y agoRomania was totalitarian. Ceausescu was a bloodthirsty dictator. Bucharest was wormed through with underground tunnels that the Securitate would use to move around. He'd murder political opponents by summoning them to a waiting room with a radiation source, giving them cancer and then letting them leave. He was overthrown only after he massacred a ton of students, mowing them down with machine gun fire during a protest.
- ymolodtsov 4y agoRussia doesn't really fit this description yet, even though Putin wants to create this image. Totalitarian states relied on masses and didn't have to forcibly get people to participate in their marches.