Nixon welcomes Romanian president, Ceausescu, to White House

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[@luishernandezblonde]

Well, Ceausescu was received for defying the USSR invasion of Czechoslovakia. Little known that Ceausescu would become Kim Il-sung of the Balkans.

[@alexdaniel3043]

Depends who you ask, ask the poor, they will tell you he was a hero, ask the rich, thieves, corrupt ones, they will tell you he was a tyrant,that say alot about someone, more people died under democracy corruption then under communism, due to fires in clubs, fires in hospitals,doctors become doctors with bribe,we even had a recent person who jump from her apartment on fire because firefighters didnt have a ladder

[@bebolino100]

@@alexdaniel3043 where u from?

[@gordonfreeman2329]

@@bebolino100 who?

[@gordonfreeman2329]

Enver hoxha and albania was the european north korea

[@mooopy4887]

@@alexdaniel3043 you're not Romanian aren't you? All dictatorships are evil and corrupt

[@alexandra.v]

2:26 Can we appreciate that Romanian interpreter? Every time I hear him, I don't believe he is not British.

[@0flyswatter0]

My dad used to travel to Romania back in the 1970s. For a while, he said that it was quite nice. Then, things changed. I read that it had to do with Romania being debt-free and not buying anything from anyone.

[@vitothepizzaguy7475]

The president was obssesed with having no outside debt,so all the imports stopped and export became a national emergency. People would work more and harder for the same low salary,the stores were empty.food was rationed and cheap.the factories were becoming outdated technologically and by the time Romania became the first debt free country,in early 1989, people excpected things to go back to normal,but the president kept the things going as they were and by the end of the year he would of been taken down and shot as the people have had enough

[@johnd2058]

@@vitothepizzaguy7475 True, except C's end was occasioned by him going Juche. Much like King Snowflake, he saw the robotic leader-worship in North Korea and envied it. Unlike King Snowflake, Ceausescu was in a position to make it start happening as soon as he got back. However, the Party saw this, and BLAM! kzbin.info/www/bejne/qGrbk4mobdaka6M

[@gabrielmarian698]

@@vitothepizzaguy7475 the interest was 20%. In 5 years he had to give back double the money. Would you take a loan like this?

[@luishernandezblonde]

Ceausescu learnt from Kim Il-sung and sought to make Romania the next North Korea.

[@IXLDGOLD]

@@vitothepizzaguy7475 Bit late of a reply but youre wrong, My parents lived through all of what your talking about. Stores werent empty, people, ALL PEOPLE, had a place to live, heat, the amount of food needed, clothing, and so forth. This is the thing westerners dont understand about eastern thought. The people of România were working for the better future of the COUNTRY, not themselves.. And that is something extremely important, valuable, and respectable. Now with capitalism overrun through our state there is nothing more but greed, all for me and none for anyone else mentality. Now, only now after the fall of our great leader Ceausescu ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1989, god damn christmas day, was he shot by the Russian infiltrator and hellspawn Iliescu, who came into presidency and sold the whole country to other nations for his and his lapdogs own interest. Only then, were there starving Romanians, job shortages, and no guarantees whatsoever to basic human living. THE COUNTRY FELL WITH CEAUSESCU.

[@elenaceausescu3868]

ce tineri eram....

[@peachywon1341]

get the fuck out bish

[@luna0237]

@@peachywon1341 era o gluma. de ce nu mergi tu cu coreenii tai?

[@TheRomanianGopnik_Hardbasser]

@@peachywon1341 can you meet with English, I think he will beat you up

[@zed043]

si ce vie :)))

[@jaisbrennan7696]

Ceausescu opposed the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

[@astolatpere11]

I hope the White House counted the silver. Apparently after a state visit to France Nicoli and his wife stole anything that wasn't glued down in their room at Versailles.

[@Schlomothebest]

It wasn't at Versailles but at Marigny, close to the Elysée Palace, where most foreign leaders stay during their State visits to France.

[@jwoejesplasj7729]

Is that actually true? Is there more information about this?

[@astolatpere11]

@@jwoejesplasj7729 Thanks, I gathered that information from a quick bio of the revolution.

[@IonIPopa]

@@jwoejesplasj7729 No, it's not. How could someone believe this crap. When he died, he had nothing. His son, when he got out of jail he didn't even had a home or money. He did mistakes and great things, he did everything for his country.

[@Horatio-Nelson]

The Ceausescus, he and his wife, created the impression of both being a standing joke. Apparently, the UK delivered several fighter aircraft to Romania and was repayed in strawberries. I assume the British only got through eating a very small propoertion of the strawberry numbers needed to settle such a bill. It was also claimed that Her Majesty the Queen in London found Ceausescu to be somewhat 'peculiar'.

[@maxwelldownham235]

Peculiar? She ought to know. Two of her sons turned out the same way.

[@brucekilby9957]

She certainly Knew about Andrew and Charles. The Two Presidents were both very Peculiar in there own way,One over thrown by his own people and Executed and other Pushed into resigning for being a criminal control freak. So much in common.🇺🇸🇷🇴🕰

[@Stefan-ne1eq]

Ceausescu was a (dangerous) clown. He had the looks of Stan Laurel, but that was about all one can say in his favor. His wife, a dull secretary, all of a sudden seriously appeared as a doctor of chemistry. All an absurd joke - tragically at the expense of millions of Romanians.

[@Gayalert69]

@@maxwelldownham235 Stop striking silly attitudes. Ceaucescu was a dictator supported by a criminal secret police and kept in power by coercion and violence. It belittles and demeans the suffering he inflicted on the Romanian people to make this kind of crass comment..

[@pickled.potato]

3:09😂😂

[@herr_crustovsky]

N-are el treaba

[@TheRomanianGopnik_Hardbasser]

Zici ca e băut

[@vchalls]

Chillin'

[@jaisbrennan7696]

Ceausescu opposed the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

[@vitothepizzaguy7475]

Zici ca spune o poezie in grupa mare

[@gabrielflorin89]

Eu cred ca nea Nicu chiar o fost trimis cu poezia scrisa de acasa cuvant cu cuvant 😂

[@jaisbrennan7696]

Ceausescu opposed the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

[@vitothepizzaguy7475]

@@jaisbrennan7696 yea..

[@akemap4]

“The first president of Romania to visite...” ha ha. At the time he was the only president Romania ever hadz

[@progamingofficialpenguin2601]

No he wasn't. The first president of Romania was Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej.

[@marioglory8528]

xaaxaaaxaxaxaaxaxaxxxa

[@alexalexuss119]

You're both wrong. Ceausescu became president in 1974, and he was the FIRST ever president of Romania. In 1970 when this visit took place, he was indeed the leader of Romania, but he was just General Secretary of the Communist Party, and NOT president of the country

[@lindsey7951]

@@alexalexuss119 so nixon was wrong?

[@alexalexuss119]

@@lindsey7951 yes. He should have said "the first Romanian leader to visit.."

[@ionutpapy1469]

" facem o vizita in unele centre ale statelor unite " 😂😂😂 Nicu' probabil se aștepta să se alinieze toți negrii de la fabrica din Las Vegas când ajunge el...

[@Andriushel]

Vesticii l-au folosit pe cizmar doar ca o simplă vuvuzelă împotriva rușilor, când au observat că nu-i halește deloc pe ruși după ce Ceașcă a cuvântat împotriva invadării Cehoslovaciei de către armata rusă la 21 august 1968. Prin acordarea atenției exagerate lui Ceaușescu, vesticii voiau să-i enerveze pe ruși. Era doar un gest copilăresc de dat cu tifla către ruși gen "sâc sâc Brejnev, uite noi ținem cu Ceașcă". E singurul moment de glorie din viața lui, când a avut o inițiativă democratică foarte curajoasă. Singura bilă albă a lui Ceașcă. Dar asta l-a costat în final lovitura de stat KGB-CIA și execuția din 1989. Gorbaciov îl detesta profund pe Ceașcă.

[@lascardumitru7970]

Chair asa?, Nu stiam S-au desecrizat cumva comvorbirile din birou intre ceasca SI Nixon ? Press Americana la acea vreme a cuvantat CA Nixon a facut o vizita scyrta in Romania, din initiative proprie, fara accordul Congresului, in efortul sau de a pune capat razboiului din Vietnam Ceasca find unul din marii sustinatori cu arme SI bunuri a partii Nord vietnamese, intra in atentia Lui Nixon La intoarcere in USA, Nixon a declarat presei ca rezultatul negocierilor de la bucuresti Este minor deoarece acest individ, ceasca, este o persona redusa intellectual, UN stalinist ordinary a carui discurs consta in a repeta fara noima lozinci staliniste

[@adrianstere]

Corect însă nu cred ca aia a fost singura lui bila albă. Însă intr-adevar a fost naiv sa creadă ca americani îl vor ajuta. La sfârșit culmea sau înțeles chiar cu ruși sa îl dea jos. Nu numai ca l-au dat jos dar au mai și omorât 1000 de oameni nevinovați și l-au asasinat ca pe un câine poporul participând din plin la asta. Însă totul in viața se plătește și exista un echilibru universal. Acuma romani aia care îl înjurau si au participat la jaful generalizat după asasinarea lui ori sunt morți de foame ori sunt prin tari străine spălând wc-uri si plângându-se ca de ce e rău in România. Cu toate bubele lui Ceaușescu nu a vândut țara la străini. Cât despre curva de Gorbaciov el și cu Eltin sunt priviți in Rusia ca cei mai marii trădători de țara și dacă nu venea Putin Rusia o lua pe urmele României.

[@jaisbrennan7696]

Ceausescu opposed the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

[@georgevigh5396]

Gorbaciov îl detesta pt ca nu îl lasă Ceaușescu sa îs facă planurile

[@IonIPopa]

Se numeste politica (externa, in cazul acesta).

[@error.zv.]

Among the greatest people in Romanian history

[@Cojo2701]

Wow... even when we were comunist we had good relationship with America

[@jaisbrennan7696]

Ceausescu opposed the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

[@maxwelldownham235]

@@jaisbrennan7696 That was big of him. But not as big as the mile wide Presidential Palace he built for himself.

[@user-nm9ei3tp8b]

Good people relationship between this country's

[@Justchillppl518]

pe Iohanis nu cred ca il primeste cu fanfara

[@optic_wt]

Alexander G. Hoffmann ca nu mai sunt vremurile dictaturii.

[@adrian1622]

L au primit la fel de frumos

[@gabrielmarian698]

@@adrian1622 dar nu l-a plimbat regina Angliei cu caleașca.

[@adrianstere]

@@adrian1622 Da, i-au dat o șapcă in schimbul resurselor. Good job!

[@jaisbrennan7696]

Ceausescu opposed the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

[@DaveDott]

10/29/2020

[@lindsey7951]

6/27/2021

[@jaisbrennan7696]

Ceausescu opposed the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

[@erxo1]

1:05 Ceauşcescu:wtf?

[@VRcation]

imagine welcoming a murderer while children in his country are starving to death and dying of infections...

[@arl-luca7294]

Oh poor country😔 debt free and job+house given by the state when you get married😔 what a shithole😕 What about Democratic Romania? Half of our population live in other countrys for work, people die more of hunger today, people getting killed on TV everyday, but Ceusescu was the bad one right? You just keep telling yourself that.

[@cheddacheese7513]

Back then he was a decent leader, it’s when he visited Red China and North Korea that he started going insane and the country downhill

[@liver8757]

Learn how to learn the History, dude

[@mike_404]

@@arl-luca7294 right.. the shoe closet apartment and the pennies wage.vorbesti doar ca se nu admori

[@ionradu8108]

Nu se murea de foame în tara și nici infecții nu erau , eram foarte buni în medicina ,și aveam un sistem medical foarte bun ,ce acum nu exista

[@user-og3ei3ni6w]

Matsushita Konosuke has my friend

[@apologetica911]

Ceausescu - cel mai tare! iohannis e un pigmeu pe langa Ceausescu.

[@jaisbrennan7696]

Ceausescu opposed the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

[@dr.romeoconfidential9271]

That’s not what he said

[@jaisbrennan7696]

Ceausescu opposed the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

[@elenabibescu1848]

it was not full speech here.

[@tonicodrut9513]

O dată în 2mii de anii se naște un om că Președintele Ceaisescu

[@Cojo2701]

Da, și speram sa rămână doar cizmar

[@iulianclaudiubardan6745]

A sucker is born every minute

[@acmusic9974]

Sunt unul dintre ei... Mă consider! ^_^ Să ştii că îmi iubesc țara! Am studiat în străinătate dar vin cu proiecte mari! Poate nu voi fi eu preşedinte, dar voi aduce schimbări țării mele şi multe proiecte militare aşa cum Ceauşescu a vrut! Nu sunt communist, dar patriot! Vei vedea peste ceva timp! Pe curând!

[@IXLDGOLD]

@@acmusic9974 Am putea vorbim? Ași iubii sa ascult ce schimbări plănuiești să aduci la țară. Si eu am niște idei, dar nici un fel de a aplica, find crescând in Irlanda din cauza la căderea poporul nostru în 1989.... Pe ziua de craciun, chiar bătaie de joc, și fară trial.....

[@jaisbrennan7696]

Ceausescu opposed the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

[@redfront6707]

He’s stonefaced the whole time 🗿

[@sdsd3368]

What shitty presidents Romania had since this guy past away🤦...serving all other interests,but Romanian people!!😡

[@adrianstere]

Well, Romanians complained a lot about him. Now they get want they wanted! Liberty to live in the West! 🤣🤣 As someone told me once: liberty doesn’t pay your rent or make your belly full.

[@jaisbrennan7696]

Ceausescu opposed the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

[@JohnSmith-pn1vv]

@@adrianstere neither does socialism haha. Useless non working people in America live like kings compared to starving socialist lambs Just put it in H! 😆

[@grawakendream8980]

he was no gheoghe gheorgiu-dej

[@larry1824]

Wanna listen to my tapes,???

[@joedoe7506]

I see two mistakes for humanity back then

[@elvinicolaecazaceanu4894]

U better stfu Ceausescu was a great man

[@elvinicolaecazaceanu4894]

@Diger Tance his country economy is his time was bigger then most of europe fool

[@jamesflynn6827]

@@elvinicolaecazaceanu4894 ah yes so great that the romanian shops at that time were empty and his people loved him so much they decided to revolt and shoot him

[@elvinicolaecazaceanu4894]

@@jamesflynn6827 other goverments involved in his execution people were just brain washed like u bro

[@jamesflynn6827]

@@elvinicolaecazaceanu4894 im sorry but this has nothing to do with brainwashing I gained that information from first hand Accounts so who do you call brainwashed? Wich evidence do you have to back up your unholdable claims?

[@itdoesntsaythatzppp2240]

Romania was a super power back then.

[@TheDukeOfPannekoeken]

nah

[@TheDukeOfPannekoeken]

Toma Alimos lol sure

[@advocacy6738]

was a stupid power

[@p.c.r.4062]

Republica Socialistă România was a good country with a good economic and power on military!

[@averagememeenthusiast7607]

Yeah,it was an european version of North Korea,after all that was Ceausecu's muse for molding Romania.

[@JohnDoe-xx8pe]

cam incordat Nicu 😅

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

Nixon was worse than Ceausescu

[@mgoblue9389]

Lol yeah give Ceaucescu the power and resources that Nixon had and he'd have been way worse

[@Nexo_mapping]

@@mgoblue9389 -🤓

[@bogdan1213]

Nixon was based. listen to his leaked convo about the Jedis

[@floflo8461]

Ceausescu was the best,our country was independent,rip Ceausescu

[@Hacunamattata]

😆🤣🤣🤣😆😆😆

[@legionardevrancea229]

Gluma anului.Poate in prima jumătate a domniei lui,dar dupa vizita in China si Korea de nord, pur si simplu a inebunit.

[@floflo8461]

@@legionardevrancea229 vorbesti numa sa nu taci

[@bolf4647]

Michael the Brave, Carol I, Ferdinand I, Michael I : are we a joke to you?

[@mike_404]

@@floflo8461 vorbesti se nu adormi. pffff

[@alexcrowson5750]

FALSE FIRST ROMANIAN LEADER TO VISIT US WAS HM QUEEN MARIE SHAME ON YOU NIXON!

[@razvanlutia6931]

He said president not leader

[@nicus7]

BAG PULA IN MONARHIA TA ACELE GUNOAIE DIN GERMANIA NU AU REALIZAT NIMIC IN AFARA DE FURT SI DISTRUGERE

[@jaisbrennan7696]

Ceausescu opposed the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

[@cristian-virgilvrinceanu6871]

CEAUȘESCU A FOST CEL MAI BUN PREȘEDINTE AL ROMÂNIEI.

[@mihaigabriel8477]

Mda, esti genial

[@sorinduta1989]

Au mai fost si altii in afara de el?

[@itdoesntsaythatzppp2240]

Adevarat!!

[@averagememeenthusiast7607]

Discutabil,Ceausecu a adus imbunatatiri majore in economie si industrie,dar in acelasi timp a devenit un tiran care a uitat ca bunastarea unui popor ar trebui sa fie mai presus decat numele acestuia la exporturi...Ma rog...nu ca am fi avut presedinti mai buni...2 dintre ei au fost niste hoti ordinari,iar actualul presedinte fiind neputincios pe scena politica...

[@maximusfuscus]

CRISTIAN-VIRGIL VRÎNCEANU - Du-te acasa, stai cu frigiderul gol vreo doua trei saptamani, opreste siguranta la curent doaua ore seara si uita-te pe pereti - program la Tv nu era. Si pe urma mai zi-mi de Ceausescu...un analfabet criminal care nu a inteles oportunitatea URIASA pentru Romania. Spune asta si parintilor care si-au adunat copiii prin balti de sange sau tocati de macelari in. 1989...vai si amar de voi.