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This was an idea of the infamous Romanian communist dictator Ceausescu: he wanted to feed the whole of Bucharest in a single giant canteen. Unfortunately he was
by meindnoch 3y ago
This was an idea of the infamous Romanian communist dictator Ceausescu: he wanted to feed the whole of Bucharest in a single giant canteen. Unfortunately he was toppled and killed in 1989 before this idea could come to fruition.
- throwawayfear 3y agoIt’s unfortunate that a communist dictator was toppled and killed? Did you ever bother to look into why that happened and all the evils he did? We shouldn’t be borrowing from a dead communist dictator’s playbook. Clearly it didn’t work out for him and the vast majority of people didn’t want that.
- achenet 3y agoI suspect the 'unfortunate' in the parent comment was dry irony, not an earnest expression of sadness.
- meindnoch 3y agoIt was irony. It was unfortunate for him, because he couldn't realize his grand vision of communal food distribution: https://www.rferl.org/a/photos-romania-hunger-circuses-bucharest/32229040.html https://www.rferl.org/a/photos-romania-hunger-circuses-bucha... I didn't think I needed to elaborate that any idea coming from communist dictators (let alone the self-styled Genius of The Carpathians) should not be the basis of our policies.