𝟐𝟓-𝟐𝟕 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟕 𝐌𝐢𝐤𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐆𝐨𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐯, 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐔.𝐒.𝐒.𝐑. 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭.
🗓️Perceived as a reformist of communism, Gorbachev initiated the policy of transparency in the state-citizen relationship but also initiated reforms for the liberalization of economic and cultural activities.
☭Ceaușescu, who promised himself to become a Stalin of Romania immediately became Gorbachev's outspoken opponent together with the Presidents of Bulgaria and D.D.R. Bucharest in the days of the visit had to look like a colorful, prosperous city, with happy and grateful people.
☭Gorbachev was received with great fear by the authorities, who were concentrating on isolating any dialogue which could betray the disaster of the Ceaușescu regime to Gorbachev, who was to take large crowd visits in the program. Special attention was paid to persons "suitable for disorderly conduct or penetration of the security and guard device" and the security measures were extremely comprehensive. In the total decay of the Romanian 80s crisis, in just a few days the roads were repaired, especially those on the official route, flowers were planted and even the shops received some extra merchandise, especially foods and drinks that were missing for months.
☭The citizens of the capital hoped that Gorbachev would visit a market, this being an opportunity to get more products, and foreign commentators pointed out that Gorbachev's reception was less enthusiastic than in other fraternal countries.
Here the story of Romanians at the Redpatrol tour with Dacia!
Credits- TVR
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The most scenic tour of Bucharest.
With our guests from India 🇮🇳 .
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Letitia- our 1977 flaming red star spotted on a driving tour.
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𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟖, 𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡
6 years ago, Malvina, the 1984 ivory RedPatrol star 🌟 spotted on her trip to Bucharest for joining our project.
Never in a hurry, never getting intimidated, always trustful.
Mighty from her first day with us!
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𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟕, 𝟐𝟏:𝟐𝟐 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬. 𝐀 𝟓𝟓 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝, 𝟕.𝟒 𝐝𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐚 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝟏,𝟒𝟐𝟒 𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝟑𝟑 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐩𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝟏𝟏,𝟑𝟎𝟎 𝐢𝐧𝐣𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐚 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝟑𝟓,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐬.
💸The total damage of this unimagined disaster is evaluated at around 2 billion Euros in today's money.
🥂President Nicolae Ceaușescu, along with his wife, was attending the official banquet hosted by the President of Nigeria.He returned immediately by plane to Bucharest. The state of emergency was established, by Presidential decree.
🛬During the following days, Nicolae Ceaușescu accompanied by Elena Ceaușescu visited Bucharest to assess the damage and calm the population like a real Communist Father of the Nation usually did on this kind of occasions. He also gave firm orders to continue rescuing the victims even beyond the deadline considered the survival limit.
Of course for this action he used his capitalist German limousine.
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EN 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐞 𝐂𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐬̦𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐮 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐫!
On 22nd of December 2023, 34 years from the Romanian Revolution, the RedPatrol stars depart in an accurate re-enactment tour of Ceaușescu's runaway!
⭐A classic Dacia car tour which explores both the geographical as well as the emotional roadmap covered by Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena on the 22nd of December 1989.
⭐We search the pivotal moments of Ceaușescu’s last day as a President and cover a route of 90 km towards Târgoviște- and back to Bucharest- the place where he was captured, detained and executed on the 25th of December 1989.
⭐Feel the terror and the fear which overwhelmed Nicolae Ceaușescu after losing in just 24 hours the supreme power he had over the country for 24 years and discover his lesser known attempts to get it back.
Tickets https://bit.ly/ThelastdayofCeausescu
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𝐑𝐎 𝐔𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚 𝐳𝐢 𝐚 𝐥𝐮𝐢 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐞 𝐂𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐬̦𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐮!
La 22 Decembrie 2023, la 34 de ani de la Revoluția Română, vedetele RedPatrol pleacă într-o călătorie de reconstituire acurată a fugii lui Ceaușescu!
⭐Un tur cu o Dacie din anii 80 care explorează atât traseul geografic cât și cel emoțional parcurs de Nicolae Ceaușescu și soția sa Elena în 22 decembrie 1989.
⭐Vom explora momentele esențiale din ultima zi a lui Ceaușescu ca președinte și vom parcurge un traseu de 90 km. spre Târgoviște (și înapoi în București) către locul unde a fost capturat, reținut și executat pe 25 decembrie 1989.
⭐Vei simți teroarea și frica care l-au copleșit pe Nicolae Ceaușescu după ce a pierdut într-o singură zi puterea supremă ce a o avut-o asupra țării timp de 24 de ani și vei afla despre încercările mai puțin cunoscute de a o recupera.
𝑻𝒖𝒓 𝒅𝒆 6 𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒊̂𝒏𝒕𝒓-𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒔̦
🇺🇸 Our tour guests from the United States are eager to start the Dacia driving session.
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An effervescent classic driving session like the one with our guests from France could not be stopped by the torrential rain.
Our Dacia start adore rain, and so do our guests!
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🗡 The violent scene of Romania’s bloody stories from the last 500 years will be revealed, with a meu of deep frightening stories that you newer knew that happened here.
🗡 From Vlad Dracul’s time, from the 15th Century to the 20th century in Nicolae Ceaușescu’s Era a red bloody line up of unbelievable and frightening murders, heists, beheadings happened just here, in the heart of Romania, in Bucharest!
🔥 Expect anything from brutal beheadings, mass arson, impaling or poisoning during Dracula’s time to the 70s vampire serial killer, the phantoms of the House of Parliament or cannibalism in the Old city.
New An original RedPatrol tour available now!
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In 1989 Bucharest had just 100.000 cars and the streets were full of color.
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34 years later- in 2023-about 1.000.000 cars are circulating in Bucharest everyday but, most of them are painted in white, blue grey or black.
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Color the city like in the 80s in an unforgettable driving tour with Dacia where you and your friends will ride the city in a classic manner in a convoy of shiny chromed 80s Dacia cars!
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Credits- Albert Vrabiuta
The infamous Securitate, one of the most callous secret services from the Eastern Block, was established soon after Romania abolished the Monarchy in August 1948 (Decree 221/1948).
Securitate came from an NKVD Soviet division and was infiltrated by the Soviet leaders in the Ministry of Internal Affairs soon after Romania was occupied by the Soviet troops.
This was the beginning of a terror Era (1949 – 1964), when over 500.000 people were taken away and put into forced labor camps or directly to jail or executed on the basis of being declared enemies of the newly established Communist Regime; other tens of thousands were deported for the simple reason of their "unhealty" origins, as respected teachers, doctors or just wealthy peasants.
In the 80's Securitate turned eye against all people that dared to comment or confront the Party and Ceaușescu.
Here is a movie shot by one Canadian TV station in Bucharest, November 1989, just few months before Communism was abolished, that shows the Securitate workers in action.
It was estimated that 1 in 4 Romanians was a snitcher…
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Explore Bucharest with the iconic car of Romania!
🇰🇵June 1971- the Ceaușescus visited North Korea for the first time.
They were completely overwhelmed by what they saw and really wanted to put it all into practice in their homeland - Socialist Romania. Forcing things a bit, Ceaușescu wanted to be Kim, after he promised himself at the beginning of his political career to be the Stalin of Romania! And indeed, analyzing the lives of the two, we will find that the North Korean leader had the "qualities" necessary to be a true idol for Ceaușescu.
🇰🇵Ceaușescu was always obsessed with his revolutionary past, a bit impoverished in notable events. That's why he always tried to enrich himself, resorting to numerous forgeries. That was not the case with Kim.
☭This visit was the point of no return for Ceaușescu, who dragged Romania into a fatal collapse to fulfill his plan to be like Kim. Back in Romania the Cultural Revolution was initiated in 1971- Thesis from the Neptune and the Architectural Systematization plan of the Romanian Villages and Bucharest started in 1977.
Hear the stories of Romanians at the RedPatrol Tour with Dacia!
Credits- ICON production
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1st of May - the day when all workers are praised!
☭In Socialist Romania, this day was dearly awaited by everybody since it was a national holiday and an occasion to spend time in the family.
🎈But…every 1st of May began by celebrating together with the Big Family, the Socialist comrades and with the Father of the Nation. Adults and children attended a fake play which honoured the great life in Communism togethers.
🎈🎈The afternoons however were of a completely different caliber: a few hours of freedom to spend with the real family or close friends at a picnic. Romanians served beer and…"mititei" with mustard.
🎉Happy 1st of May for everybody!
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🇺🇸🇷🇴Between 12th and 17th of April 1978, on his fourth visit in the United States, Ceaușescu was welcomed by Jimmy Carter. Beside the commercial talks, Ceausescu enjoyed the official dinners.
🍗But he told his comrades upon returning in Romania after one of the official visits that “they eat a little, and poorly cooked. In general, just two dishes are served, not like in Romania. Usually there was just fish at the first course and after that, a steak. If we served the salad they served me at the White House in our country, it would be a scandal!”
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A Dacia overtaking.
This is what we do-socially and safe- at the our tours.
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Malvina, our 1984 ivory RedPatrol star 🌟 on her trip to Bucharest for joining our project.
Never in a hurry, never getting intimidated, always trustworthy.
Mighty from her first day with us!
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Our squad reunited for posing.
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