Decembrie 25 1989 - Garnizoana Tirgoviste. The destruction of buildings and state institutions, undermining of the national economy, in accordance with Articles 165 and 145 of the penal code. PROSECUTOR: And who wrote the papers for you, Elena? COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENSE: Even though he like her committed insane acts, we want to defend them. The bill of indictment contains the following points: Genocide, in accordance with Article 356 of the penal code. He would be executed a few days later. This speech was an annual event and carefully scripted by the regime to insure both success and the appearance of popular support. This was a coup d'etat. This shows how little patriotism there is, how many treasonable offenses were committed. By the morning of 22 December, the rebellion had already spread to all major cities across the country. The final speech of the prosecutor follows: PROSECUTOR: It is very difficult for us to act, to pass a verdict on people who even now do not want to admit to the criminal offenses that they have committed during 25 years and admit to the genocide, not only in Timisoara and Bucharest, but primarily also to the criminal offenses committed during the past 25 years. The great Ceauescu escape attempt came after it had become clear that most of the army had gone over to the people. They will receive a link in their email and it will automatically give them access to a Kindle reader on their smartphone, computer or even as a web-readable document. The National Salvation Front is now our supreme body. And we will not betray our people here. The Man at the Top increasingly pulls on disconnected controls, yet still imagines he is in charge. Shakespeare dramatized the turnabout in his famous scene. And we will not betray our people here. [1] The crowd, now totaling up to 80,000, were given orders on where to stand, when to applaud and what to sing. Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality As the crowd becomes more unruly, Ceausescu becomes more confused and he begins arguing with the unseen hecklers. PROSECUTOR: We have wonderful programs. At that moment Elena says to Nicolae: Forget about them. PROSECUTOR: Did you know about the genocide or did you, as a chemist, only deal with polymers? They were only busy enslaving the people and building up an apparatus of power. No one can deprive me of these functions. , the former US ambassador to Syria, has effectively accused the Obama administration of abandoning genuinely pro-American rebels in Syria thereby allowing the ascendance of al-Qaeda. The catastrophic situation of the country is known all over the world. . Dressed in a black Persian lamb hat with matching coat collar, Ceausesecu, 71, was . Elena keeps whispering to him. We have ensured an apartment for every citizen through corresponding laws. PROSECUTOR: Did you know about the genocide in Timisoara? CEAUSESCU: Nu recunosc nici un tribunal in afara de Marea Adunare Nationala. At the beginning, Ceausescu claimed that it is a provocation to be asked whether he was sick. You were not used to talking to the people. PROSECUTOR: And who heads Securitate? NICOLAE CEAUESCU: I do not answer, I will only answer questions before the Grand National Assembly. A little noticed article in the Sydney Morning Herald notes that Australia will support Japans effort to repeal its pacifist constitution. He was Secre. He refused to undergo a psychiatric examination. Nobody is likely to rise up and become a Man on Horseback. PROSECUTOR: Yes, but you are paying the mercenaries. Elena says: Look, and that they are calling genocide. Finally, I would like to refer once more to the genocide, the numerous killings carried out during the past few days. The defendant has not recognized us. George thought about it for awhile and concluded he just couldnt. 20072021 Roy Rosenzweig Center for History & New Media PROSECUTOR: Who ordered shooting into the crowd? His country passed from traditional monarchy to troubled democracy to royal dictatorship to military control to occupied territory. CHIEF PROSECUTOR: Esteemed chairman of the court, today we have to pass a verdict on the defendants Nicolae Ceauescu and Elena Ceauescu who have committed the following offenses: crimes against the people. CEAUSESCU: I do not recognize you. The charges are incorrect, and I will not answer a single question here. They not only deprived the people of heating, electricity and foodstuffs, they also tyrannized the soul of the Romanian people. PROSECUTOR: Children cannot even buy plain candy, and you are living in the palaces of the people. Nobody has the right to abolish the Grand National Assembly. Within hours Ceauescu was beseiged inside the Central Committee building by irate crowds. The Soviet Parliament expressed its approval of the fall of President Ceauescu and sent to the Romanian people a special message of support proposed by President Gorbachev. You see, there is no use in talking to these people. He also refuses to recognize the new forum. Machine guns splattered against a background of church bells ringing in triumph. ELENA CEAUSESCU: We will not sign any statement. Therefore, it is a mistake for the two accused to refuse to cooperate with us. I will not answer any question. A lie, a lie in my face. Ceausescu relates his recent meeting with Dubcek in Prague in August 1968. He answers: I am the president of Romania, and I am the commander in chief of the Romanian army. They are not only accused of offenses committed during the past few days, but of offenses committed during the past 25 years. I will not say anything here. PROSECUTOR: The Grand National Assembly has been dissolved. Workers, military units and other popular organizations were bused to the capitol and given orders on where to stand, when to applaud and what to sing. Paper is patient. It must be cleared up whether Ceausescu wants to, should, must or can answer at all. You are guilty of these offenses even if you do not want to admit it. The defendant has not recognized us. Ceauescu answers: As I said before, the people are fighting for their freedom and against this putsch, against this usurpation. What do you say as a citizen? They carried out acts that are incompatible with human dignity and social thinking; they acted in a despotic and criminal way; they destroyed the people whose leaders they claimed to be. The Rise of Ceausescu Nicolae was a member of the communist youth movement. This page was last modified on 10 April 2016, at 21:40. I will only speak in front of it. It is a lie that I made the people starve. If he no longer has a certain function, he cannot demand anything at all. Former President Donald Trump speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, on March 4, 2023. By 6 pm, Romanian television was broadcasting live reports of victory rallies attended by thousands in Bucharest. PROSECUTOR: We now have another leading organ. Please make a note that here it has been stated that all legal regulations have been observed, that this is a legal trial. Ceauescu's final speech is a speech delivered by Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauescu on 21 December 1989. However, there is a difference between real sickness that must be treated and mental insanity which leads to corresponding actions, but which is denied by the person in question. It is a historic time, given that no military member goes public to speak negatively about the ultimate commander. He also refuses to recognize the new forum. We have ensured an apartment for every citizen through corresponding laws. Sections in italic type are from Austrian television comentary: I do not recognize this court. CHIEF PROSECUTOR: Esteemed chairman of the court, today we have to pass a verdict on the defendants Nicolae Ceausescu and Elena Ceausescu who have committed the following offenses: Crimes against the people. The front rows of the assembly were made up of low-level Communist Party officials and members who acted as cheer-leaders. ELENA CEAUESCU: I will not answer. Another question . The following is a transscript of the closed trial of Romanian Dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, as shown on Romanian and Austrian television. CEAUSESCU: We had no account in Switzerland. PROSECUTOR: Mr. Chairman, we find the two accused guilty of having committed criminal actions according to the following articles of the penal code: Articles 162, 163, 165 and 357. Bucharests Broadcasting House was the main source of information yesterday for Romanians about the countrys liberation and the means by which politicians, military officers and dissidents tried to influence the situation. A flight into peril, flashbacks to underground action. Every honest citizen who worked hard here until 22 December knows that we do not have medicines, that you two have killed children and other people in this way, that there is nothing to eat, no heating, no electricity. They wanted to separate the people from the army. They used to fetch people from orphans' homes or from abroad whom they trained in special institutions to become murderers of their own people. You need not admit your mistakes, mister. The details are known. Ceausescu's last speech was interrupted but not by the shouts of the masses. Thousands of workers were bused into the square under threat of being fired. NICOLAE CEAUESCU: I do not recognize this court. Have you understood them? PROSECUTOR: Nicolae Ceausescu should tell us why he does not answer our questions. Now we finally saw your villa on television, the golden plates from which you ate, the foodstuffs that you had imported, the luxurious celebrations, pictures from your luxurious celebrations. After an outage of transmission of Romanian television, the speaker announces the verdict in the trial of Elena and Nicolae Ceausescu is death sentence. ELENA CEAUESCU: We will not sign any statement. One of the fundamental defenses of a democracy is the truth. Did you know that you can purchase some of these books and pamphlets by Richard Fernandez and share them with you friends? You told us about it here. We must not allow the slightest impression of illegality to emerge. In the footage, Romanian president Nicolae Ceausescu can be seen delivering a speech from the balcony of the Central Committee building overlooking Palace Square, now know as "Revolution Square," where he praised the achievements of Romania's socialist regime and its "multi-laterally developed socialist society." From Wikipedia: I have no statement to make, and I will not sign one. However, why are your programs not implemented? Tell us! NICOLAE CEAUESCU: I do not recognize this new forum. Centralized regimes may seem to collapse suddenly, yet in reality they have been coming apart for a long time. Storming the Castle at Amazon Kindle for $3.99, why government should get small This work is a translation and has a separate copyright status to the applicable copyright protections of the original content. It should be stated once and for all that this military court is absolutely legal and that the former positions of the two Ceausescus are no longer valid. Richard III of England rode into Bosworth Field relying on his ally Baron Stanely to come to his aid. Fiction. I ask the court, as the plaintiff, to take note that proof has been furnished for all these points, that the two have committed the offenses mentioned. The notorious programme of razing villages in the countryside would be halted. CEAUSESCU: Nobody can change the state structures. Workers from a Bucharest power plant started chanting "Ti-mi-oa-ra! Who are these fanatics? This speech was an annual event and carefully scripted by the regime to insure both success and the appearance of popular support. After an outage of transmission of Romanian television, the speaker announces the verdict in the trial of Elena and Nicolae Ceauescu is death sentence. There is still shooting going on, the prosecutor says. Copyright 2023 PJMedia.com/Salem Media. Their son, Nicu, was shown on television under arrest. The archive focuses largely on the period from 1965, when Romania was ruled over by the Ceausescus, until. ELENA CEAUSESCU: Accounts in Switzerland? Tyrannies are buried by the shovel of self-deception. PROSECUTOR: Well, Mr. CEAUSESCU: I will not answer this question. PROSECUTOR: This would serve your defense. At some point the entire structure of governance becomes a system of workarounds with all real power devolved to the man on the ground. It is as if, in that moment, everyday Romanian's saw the possibility, saw the reality of the weakness of Ceausescus regime. PROSECUTOR: Esteemed Mr. Chairman, I have been one of those who, as a lawyer, would have liked to oppose the death sentence, because it is inhuman. The prosecutor cites all academic titles she had always claimed to have. I will not speak with you provocateurs anymore, and I will not speak with the organizers of the putsch and with the mercenaries. Like a jalopy falling apart on the road, dropping a screw here and a spring there, the Obama administration is gradually shaking itself to pieces. I guaranteed that every village has its schools, hospitals and doctors. That is why the people are fighting all over the country. As a result, the prosecutor says: Elena has always been talkative, but otherwise she does not know much. One in four of the population is believed to have a member. PROSECUTOR: This is how you worked with the people and exercised your functions! From the archive, 23 December 1989: Celebration as a nation emerges from the dark, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. They were not really interested in the people. [3], From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core, The former headquarters of the Central Committee of the, File:Ceausescu Final Speech - Former Central Committee Building - Bucharest - Romania.jpg, Video of Ceausescus Last Speech, December 1989, Nicolae Ceauescu LAST SPEECH (english subtitles) 1/2, https://infogalactic.com/w/index.php?title=Ceauescu%27s_final_speech&oldid=714636674, Articles with Romanian-language external links, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, About Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core. The new committee declared its immediate aim was an end to the cult of personality which had developed around the Ceauescu family. The counsel for the defense now takes the floor and instructs the Ceauescus once again that they have the right to defense and that they should accept this right. But we are not talking about people. No, no, he says. PROSECUTOR: Will you sign the statement now or not? ELENA CEAUESCU: Incredible. Print. Because of the crimes they committed against the people, I plead, on behalf of the victims of these two tyrants, for the death sentence for the two defendants. You have acted in a very irresponsible manner; you led the country to the verge of ruin and you will be convicted on the basis of the points contained in the bill of indictment. Thirty years on, will the guilty pay for horror of Ceauescu orphanages? This gang will be destroyed. CEAUSESCU: I will not say anything more. One of the most decisive moments in the Romanian Revolution of 1989 was Ceausescus December 21st speech (or lack thereof). Have you understood them? You have acted in a very irresponsible manner; you led the country to the verge of ruin and you will be convicted on the basis of the points contained in the bill of indictment. PROSECUTOR: Well, Mr. And you might perhaps have achieved the understanding of the Romanian people if you had now admitted your guilt. I am now talking to you as simple citizens, and I hope that you will tell the truth. CEAUSESCU: I do not answer, I will only answer questions before the Grand National Assembly. PROSECUTOR: This situation is known. They organized the putsch. In 1947, King Michael showed more dignity than you. Ceausescu and his wife were later captured, tried, and executed. Ti-mi-oa-ra!a chant that was soon picked up by others in the crowd. Ceauescu claims that the putsch was organized from abroad. PROSECUTOR: We have wonderful programs. PROSECUTOR: You claim to have taken measures so that every peasant is entitled to 200 kilograms of wheat. What defamation, what provocations! Mystery surrounded the whereabouts of the former President and his wife, Elena, last night. Why did you ruin the country so much: Why did you export everything? All strategic points in the country were said to be under the control of the people. No one wanted to do anything for you anymore. The prosecutor agrees, but stresses that they lived in them while the people suffered. Dressed in a black Persian lamb hat with matching coat collar, Ceausesecu, 71, was . I only recognize the working class and the Grand National Assembly no one else. The video- shown live on Romanian television-- shows his confusion and consternation and the barely audible comments. Central planning in economics leads to a mismatch in prices and a collapse in the economy while a Central Narrative in politics leads to an increased incidence of involuntary rebellion. It can go on for a long time shedding parts, but eventually the axle falls out. No Way In at Amazon Kindle $8.95, print $9.99. However, they will be indicted, and a sentence will be passed on the basis of the new legal system. The day began as it ended with vehement anti-Ceauescu demonstrations. But who gave the order to shoot? The process usually follows this path. A later article shows that Australia is moving toward. No, no, he says. The prosecutor says: The world already knows what has happened here. We want a legal trial. They are cowards. Ceausescu begins his address to the people as he had in years past but this year the tide turned. They were given red flags, banners and large pictures of Ceauescu. PROSECUTOR: So far, they have always claimed that we have built this country, we have paid our debts, but with this they bled the country to death and have hoarded enough money to ensure their escape. You need not admit your mistakes, mister. The Idiot Vote: The Democrats Core Constituency In the essay The Use of Knowledge in Society, Hayek argued that in complex systems the relevant facts are dispersed among many people. Video of Ceausescu's Last Speech, December 1989 Annotation One of the most decisive moments in the Romanian Revolution of 1989 was Ceausescu's December 21st speech (or lack thereof). PROSECUTOR: In all district capitals, which you grandly called municipalities, there is shooting going on. The English translation is by the U.S. government's Foreign Broadcast Information Service. The details are known. NICOLAE CEAUESCU: Her scientific papers were published abroad! PROSECUTOR: So you know the new forum. O voce: Un pahar cu apa! You were so impertinent as to cut off oxygen lines in hospitals and to shoot people in their hospital beds. Soon afterwards, Bucharest television reported that Mr Ceauescu and his wife were no longer in the country. Getting a shut-off notice from a utility is also sufficient to claim a hardship exemption. The entire intelligentsia of the country ran away. They organized the putsch. PROSECUTOR: You have never been able to hold a dialogue with the people. Fanatics, whom you are paying. In 1947, King Michael showed more dignity than you. It is simply an accumulation of multitudes ignoring the official line bit by bit and thereby gradually placing themselves unwittingly in opposition to it. Elena Ceauescu's last moments were as pathetic as one could imagine. The slippage that attracts the most attention of course, is discontent within the United States military. The crimes against the people grew year by year. The produce which the peasants grew was exported, and the peasants came from the most remote provinces to Bucharest and to the other cities in order to buy bread. And the next moment he was lying in the dust. I will only speak in front of it. ELENA CEAUESCU: How can one tell us something like this? They wanted to separate the people from the army. Its not that we dont want to respect the commander-in-chief, one told me sadly. One announcer called it the heart of our nation. It was one of the most pivotal moments in the Romanian Revolution of 1989. For example, there isa silent falling away among American allies. The prosecutor wants to find out on which basis the trial can be continued. Ceauescus hated son, Nicu, a one-time candidate to follow his father as the countrys leader, was said to have been arrested in the city of Sibiu as he was trying to take hostages. I will only speak at the Grand National Assembly. We have data concerning both of them. PROSECUTOR: So far, they have always claimed that we have built this country, we have paid our debts, but with this they bled the country to death and have hoarded enough money to ensure their escape. How can one say something like this? A little noticed article in the, notes that Australia will support Japans effort to repeal its pacifist constitution. The following is a transcript of the closed trial of Romanian Dictator Nicolae Ceauescu and his wife, Elena, as shown on Romanian and Austrian television. I am the president of the people. There is still shooting going on, the prosecutor says. We have sacrificed all our lives to the people. Sections in italic type are from the austrian television comentary: NICOLAE CEAUSESCU: I only recognize the Grand National Assembly. Despite this, I ask the court to make a decision which we will be able to justify later as well. ELENA CEAUSESCU: The intelligentsia of the country will hear what you are accusing us of. Yet there is a big difference between grousing, which is endemic to the military, and actual rebellion. CEAUSESCU: No, the people are fighting for freedom and against the new forum. The problem with the Narrative is that it suppresses the dispersed information by insisting on the centralized knowledge, on stories the elite make up themselves. I am a member and the chairwoman of the Academy of Sciences. Plenara Comitetului Central al Partidului, Consiliul de Stat, Guvernul, repr. PROSECUTOR: By now, there have been 34 casualties. Who pays them? I will not answer any more. In addition, the law forbids the IRS from using its normal enforcement tools to collect unpaid penalties. Eight minutes into the speech, some in the crowd actually began to jeer, boo and whistle at hima reaction considered unthinkable for most of Ceauescus 24 years in power. I only recognize the working class and the Grand National Assembly -- no one else. NICOLAE CEAUESCU: I do not recognize you. Richard is soon unhorsed on the field at the climax of the battle, and cries out, A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse! But wags through the ages have rewritten the lines perhaps less poetically, but more accurately as a hearse, a hearse, my kingdom for a hearse. That sad funereal vehicle is always drawn by teams of corrupt information. Bundled in drab winter clothing, she was shoved around by armed guards inside a cold, empty building. The prosecutor quotes Ceausescu, Ceausescu's program. Do you want to sign this statement? These two defendants have robbed the people, and not even today do they want to talk. We have sufficient data on this period. CEAUSESCU: I do not recognize this court. PROSECUTOR: And who wrote the papers for you, Elena? Then follows the reading of the indictment. You cannot talk to me in such a way! Then he is treated like a normal citizen. And who brought them into the country? Elena and Nicolae Ceauescu state: Well, you told us about it. Transcriptul "procesului" Nicolae si Elena Ceausescu. We live in a normal apartment, just like every other citizen. This speech was an annual event and carefully scripted by the regime to ensure both success and the appearance of popular support. Then follows the reading of the indictment. I have done everything to create a decent and rich life for the people in the country, like in no other country in the world. Are they the people, or are you paying them? Any actual attempts to fine 30 million Americans would end in a political disaster. Elena keeps whispering to him. The recent Bergdahl prisoner swap in which five hardened Taliban terrorists were released from prison is rubbing a lot of the military veterans attending D-Day events the wrong way. You should have stayed in Iran where you had flown to. PROSECUTOR: Yes, but you are paying the mercenaries. NICOLAE CEAUESCU: No, the people are fighting for freedom and against the new forum. NICOLAE CEAUESCU: I will not say anything more. He did not realize, however, that a real revolution was starting right before his eyes. At that moment Elena says to Nicolae: Forget about them. Lech Walesa has openly accused president Obama as unable to lead in world. PROSECUTOR: Let us now talk about the accounts in Switzerland, Mr. Ceausescu. COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENSE: Even though he -- like her -- committed insane acts, we want to defend them. The prosecutor quotes Ceauescu, Ceauescu's program. Robert Ford, the former US ambassador to Syria, has effectively accused the Obama administration of abandoning genuinely pro-American rebels in Syria thereby allowing the ascendance of al-Qaeda. If you had had a mental illness and admitted this, you would not be responsible for your acts. The following is a transscript of the closed trial of Romanian Dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, as shown on Romanian and Austrian television. VIENNA, Austria (AP) _ For the first time that anybody could remember, Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu was interrupted at a public speech by boos and jeers that began a huge demonstration against him in Bucharest Thursday. It should be stated once and for all that this military court is absolutely legal and that the former positions of the two Ceauescus are no longer valid. ELENA CEAUSESCU: I will not answer. ELENA CEAUESCU: The intelligentsia of the country will hear what you are accusing us of. Why did you make the peasants starve? Nicolae Ceauescu (Romanian pronunciation: [nikola.e ta.uesku]; 26 January 1918 25 December 1989) was a Romanian politician who was the Secretary Gener. PROSECUTOR: Whether you have ever had a mental illness. Because of the crimes they committed against the people, I plead, on behalf of the victims of these two tyrants, for the death sentence for the two defendants. Elena and Nicolae Ceauescu should be punished in a really legal trial. I have no statement to make, and I will not sign one. They cultivated the soil in line with your orders and had nothing to eat. His security guard appears, disappears and, finally, hustles Ceausescu off the balcony. As the other primary sources reveal, the Ceausescus were tried a few days later and executed as enemies of the new Romanian state. CEAUSESCU: I repeat: I am the president of Romania and the commander in chief of the Romanian army. Furnish proof! The War of the Words for $3.99, Understanding the crisis of the early 21st century in terms of information corruption in the financial, security and political spheres The prosecutor asks the counsel for the defense to ask Ceauescu whether he knows that he is no longer president of the country, that Elena Ceauescu has also lost all her official state functions and that the government has been dissolved. JUDECATORUL: Va rog sa luati loc. PROSECUTOR: Whether you have ever had a mental illness. In 1947, we assumed power, but under completely different circumstances. He answers: I am the president of Romania, and I am the commander in chief of the Romanian army.
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