In the history of the mainland, Gao Wei, the queen of the Northern Qi Dynasty, did a ridiculous thing and made his pet a big official. Coincidentally, more than 1,000 years later, Romanian President Ceausescu repeated the mistakes of the ancient monarchs.
This leader who worked hard for half his life, but in middle age, he became the head of state of the great dictator, and was finally killed by hundreds of bullets, becoming the only national leader to be executed in the upheaval of Eastern Europe, he was Ceausescu.
Today, let's talk about his story.
In the first half of his life, he worked hard to become a leader
Ceausescu, who held the authority of the Romanian state, was such a man.
Born into a poor farming family in Romania, he was forced to work as a shoemaker as a young man to share the pressure on his parents' shoulders.
At first, Ceausescu was different from ordinary peasants, and he pretended not only to himself but also the whole world, and to join the Romanian Communist Youth League and the Communist Party early.
At that time, the fascist forces were causing trouble in Europe, and he actively participated in the anti-fascist committees, traveled to various parts of Romania to engage in revolutionary activities, propagated Marxism-Leninism and organized workers' strikes, so he was repeatedly arrested.
At the age of 15, the enthusiastic Ceausescu was arrested and imprisoned again for organizing and participating in strikes, a period of five years. He spent World War II in prison, a period in which fate once again favored him, and he became acquainted with many of the most famous people in his life.
The prison also housed Georgiou Deji, Kivo Stoica, and Emil Podnarahi, all future Romanian political leaders who became Ceausescu's best friends.
When the Soviet army entered Romania, this group of staunch communist fighters was freed and overthrew the government with the support of the Soviet Union, and the Socialist Republic of Romania was established.
Ceausescu spent five years proving his loyalty to the revolution, and as a veteran of the revolution for more than ten years, he not only made outstanding achievements but also withstood the test of life and death, thus gaining the opportunity to soar to the sky.
He was naturally absorbed into the top echelons of the Republic and served as an alternate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Romania, and in the following years, he successively worked in many important departments such as the Ministry of Military Affairs, the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Secretariat, and gained a deeper understanding of how to govern the country.
Ceausescu was seen by others as an emotionally mobilized, eternally energetic leader, and perhaps because of this, he quickly became the successor to the second leader of the Communist Party, that is, President Georgioux.
In 1962, Romania's title for Ceausescu became "our Comrade Ceausescu", which symbolized the country's leader, representing that he was about to become the future leader of the Romanian family, and the people were all happy.
Previously, Ceausescu's professional ability to govern the country had not been fully proven due to the all-encompassing assistance of the Soviet Union, and this man proved to be very capable.
Two years later, Romanian President Giorgious sent Ceausescu and other high-level government officials to visit China on the pretext of mediating the Sino-Soviet controversy. After some pleasantries, Ceausescu sat in the most prominent position, and his status was self-evident.
When it was Romania's turn to express his opinion, Ceausescu stated the dangers of public polemics, and in order to highlight his qualifications as a "revolutionary veteran", he also emphasized that "I am a relatively young person here, and I may seem to be the youngest, but I have been a party member for 30 years"
In the subsequent conversation, he tried his best to help the Soviet Union pull the shelf, and Maurer, who was traveling with him, tried to bring the words back several times, but Ceausescu did not give up. The great man did not get angry, but analyzed the political situation of the other side in detail and reminded him to strive for other countries to become political allies.
Ceausescu was convinced by this gentle and rigid education, and he exclaimed: "It is an extraordinary ability for a great man to express complex ideas in a simple way.
This spirit of wisdom was intrinsic to Ceausescu's assumption of Romanian presidency in 1967.
In the second half of his life, he was absurd and dictatorial and lost the hearts of the people
In the early days of his administration, he criticized the personality cult of the previous president, redressed the many victims of the rightist purge, quickly rallied the hearts of the people and the party, and really did a lot of practical things for the country.
On the economic front, Ceausescu focused on industry, and at the same time loosened restrictions on the planned economy and industry and commerce, so as to promote a leap forward in the domestic economy.
In international politics, in front of 100,000 people, he publicly condemned the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, calling it "the greatest shame of the international movement."
For various reasons, Ceausescu's prestige reached its peak, both at home and abroad, and he seized military and political power in Romania.
As the saying goes, prosperity must decline, and after entering the 70s, Ceausescu quickly inflated himself in a steady stream of touting, and lived like he once hated the most.
From the perspective of background, he is a politician who was born in street demonstrations, and both his means and political intelligence are still too tender after all, and the naivety and ignorance in the political field soon reveal Ceausescu's true form.
In the mid-to-late 20th century, Romania was mired in an aging population and a shortage of labor, which greatly restricted the country's development speed.
What to do when the population is small? Mature politicians will enact a series of measures that will last for decades to absorb the impact of population growth on the country.
Ceausescu slapped his thigh and directly ordered that every woman must have children, and that she must "live in death", and that every couple must have at least four children.
Anti-abortion laws have also been enacted, making divorce, abortion and even the sale of contraceptives illegal by law.
Far from increasing the number of people, such absurd laws have allowed black industry chains such as contraception and abortion to thrive. Police officers are sent to monitor women's pregnancies, and the nickname "menstrual police" has become an international laughing stock.
Women who did not want to have children secretly fled and were also shot by soldiers he sent on the border. With the implementation of various anti-natural policies, there are indeed more newborn babies, but the domestic medical system has collapsed.
Babies have died one after another, and even the United Nations has sent someone to investigate the matter.
Ceausescu's decades in power, when the people hated abortion laws, and he felt he was thinking about the country, were just the tip of the iceberg of many crimes.
In the early 70s, Ceausescu visited a number of Eastern European socialist countries, and after his return, even his three views changed dramatically, saying that he had to be on par with those highly respected "great men" and "loving fathers", and then began to engage in a big personality cult.
He often calls himself the "Romanian sun", there is only one sun in the sky, so in his eyes there can only be one person in the country, and to put it bluntly, it is dictatorship and autocracy.
Ceausescu was unashamed to put forward the idea of "one leader", first taking away the power of other government departments, then abolishing the party committee, and finally simply pretending not to want to pretend, tearing up the predecessor system and becoming the first president of Romania.
At that time, many powers such as elections, legislation, and the appointment of officials were in the hands of a single person, but even then Ceausescu was not satisfied, and wanted the feeling of the stars holding the moon. Soon, all the newspapers and television media in the country appeared in praise of his merits.
He also gave his subordinates a mission against the sky, and wherever he went, he saw the local people cheering his arrival.
The officials in the government who are capable and can do practical things are all regarded by him as potential opponents and pushed to the end, and the rest are all sycophants who are good at flattery.
The hype of "savior of mankind", "king of the millennium" and "loving father" kept coming to his ears, but Ceausescu did not realize that he was on a path of self-destruction.
He killed himself and was shot by the faint king
After collecting the power of the country, Ceausescu had a new idea, and actually wanted to establish family rule in the whole country.
His wife, Elena, was just an ordinary weaver who was brought into the upper echelons of the country by him and was soon promoted to vice president and second-in-command in Romania.
The seven aunts and eight aunts in the family are a group of farmers facing the loess with their backs to the sky, and they are all stuffed into major important departments as the boss, in the words of the film and television drama, "A dog in the family can eat a piece of imperial food".
His youngest son, Niko, who had just turned 20, became the leader of the Communist Youth League of Romania, and publicly told everyone: "If you all support it, Niko can take over my class." ”
According to statistics made by the media, Ceausescu's relatives are all over the party, government, and military circles, and at least 30 of them hold important positions, so some people joked at that time: "The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Romania held a meeting?
The most outrageous thing is that even his dog Cobb obtained military status and became an army general under special arrangement.
The dog's usual standard of living is also extremely luxurious, eating imported food carefully cooked by the chef, living in a luxury villa with TV and air conditioning, and a special car to pick him up and drop him off.
Ceausescu himself and his relatives also lived in luxury, spending a lot of money on villas, guest houses, and hunting huts for their enjoyment, and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on imported luxury goods and daily necessities, all of which came out of taxpayers' pockets.
The Romanian people, who were supposed to be in charge of their own affairs, became Ceausescu's ATM, but he showed no remorse for this, but issued the "rationing decree" in the 80s, which was used to repay the tens of billions of dollars in foreign debt owed by the Great Leap Forward.
At that time, Romanians could only eat six taels of bread a day, and could only eat more than 300 catties of grain a year, and the supply of meat, eggs and milk was far from enough, and sometimes they couldn't buy it in line.
In winter, electricity and gas are not available, hospitals and factories are unable to operate, ordinary residents are in great pain, and countless elderly people and children are frozen to death and frostbite.
The president was eager to be skinned and cramped, and in 1989, when the upheavals in Eastern Europe erupted, opponents finally found an opportunity to eliminate him. In Timișoara, the government expelled a Hungarian priest, prompting nearly 10,000 citizens to take to the streets.
Over time, the march quickly turned into a demonstration, with angry civilians storming government buildings, tearing up Ceausescu's portrait and shouting slogans "Down with Ceausescu."
In the midst of the chaos, Ceausescu made another stupid move, and actually ordered his men to shoot at the unarmed civilians, and then the Western agents lurking in the country could catch the handle and hype up his various absurd behaviors.
The latter, naively believing that everything was under control, gave a public speech on December 20, only to be halfway through when someone shouted: "Down with Ceausescu!" and fled in fright, ordering the Minister of Defense to shoot angry civilians.
The Romanian people were outraged that the Minister of Defence could not bear to commit suicide against innocent civilians, and Ceausescu and his wife were arrested on the way to escape and brought to trial in a summary court-martial.
Still unrepentant at this point, he defended himself by saying, "I don't admit myself as a failure, I don't admit anything, I have been fighting for the people since I was 14 years old, and the people are still ours." ”
In the afternoon of the same day, the husband and wife were taken outside the barracks and shot, according to the footage taken by the accompanying reporters, Elena was still defending herself before she died.
The angry soldiers remained unmoved, and finally emptied the bullets in the magazine, and Ceausescu and his wife were shot with hundreds of bullet holes, and the whole people reveled for three days when they learned the news.
In general, Ceausescu's transformation from the son of the people to the sinner of the state, from being admired and loved to being shot by the angry people, was an outcome that no one could have imagined at first, but it was also the inevitable result of his self-inflicted blame, lost in money and power.
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