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. One day Obama may wake up and find the alliances just gone. The day began as it ended with vehement anti-Ceauescu demonstrations. However, he had badly misread the crowd's mood. All their property will be impounded. In fact, his speech on August 21, 1968 in defiance of the military actions taken by Moscow and a few of her allies in Czechoslovakia roused quite a considerable amount of support for not only himself, but for the Patriot Guards as well. As a simple citizen, I tell you the following: For the first time I guaranteed that every peasant received 200 kilograms of wheat per person, not per family, and that he is entitled to more. I told you right at the beginning that I will not answer a single question. I will not answer anymore. I guaranteed that every village has its schools, hospitals and doctors. The streets and squares of Bucharest were littered with torn portraits and shattered busts of the President and his wife. In 1947, we assumed power, but under completely different circumstances. NICOLAE CEAUESCU: Her scientific papers were published abroad! About PROSECUTOR: Did you hear the charges? You need not admit your mistakes, mister. Elena and Nicolae Ceasescu state: Well, you told us about it. PROSECUTOR: This situation is known. They were not really interested in the people. PROSECUTOR: But not of our army, you are not the commander in chief of our army. Who pays them? The English translation is by the U.S. government's Foreign Broadcast Information Service. ELENA CEAUESCU: Such impudence! ELENA CEAUSESCU: I will not answer. The crimes against the people grew year by year. The prosecutor says: The world already knows what has happened here. When the crisis comes the Leader Maximus discovers to his absolute surprise that all support has vanished. It was one of the most pivotal moments in the Romanian Revolution of 1989. PROSECUTOR: Yes, but you are paying the mercenaries. Workers from a Bucharest power plant started chanting Ti-mi-oa-ra! Now we are making a last attempt. PROSECUTOR: You claim to have taken measures so that every peasant is entitled to 200 kilograms of wheat. We want a legal trial. PROSECUTOR: Please, make a note: Ceauescu does not recognize the new legal structures of power of the country. It is as if, in that moment, everyday Romanian's saw the possibility, saw the reality of the weakness of Ceausescus regime. Ceausescu claims that the putsch was organized from abroad. 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. ELENA CEAUSESCU: How can one tell us something like this? You have information about it. a silent falling away among American allies. No truth, no survival. PROSECUTOR: Please, make a note: Nicolae Ceausescu refuses to cooperate with the court-appointed counsel for the defense. O voce: Un pahar cu apa! Sections in italic type are from Austrian television comentary: NICOLAE CEAUESCU: I only recognize the Grand National Assembly. I do not recognize this court. How can one say something like this? Ceausescu relates his recent meeting with Dubcek in Prague in August 1968. PROSECUTOR: In the same way he refused to hold a dialogue with the people, now he also refuses to speak with us. They were even worse than the king, the former king of Romania. NICOLAE CEAUESCU: No, no. The charges are incorrect, and I will not answer a single question here. PROSECUTOR: We have wonderful programs. Eight minutes into the speech, some in the crowd actually began to scream because there was a shooting that occurred in the background. Just a genteel, inoffensive refusal from an old gent. CEAUSESCU: No, the people are fighting for freedom and against the new forum. Ceauescu appeared on the balcony of the Central Committee building and began as he had in years past, with a speech laden with the usual Marxist-Leninist wooden language. However, he had badly misread the crowds mood. This work is a translation and has a separate copyright status to the applicable copyright protections of the original content. You were not used to talking to the people. What defamation, what provocations! The administrations threats, so dire on paper, are toothless in practice because they actually cant afford to carry out the threat. One of the most decisive moments in the Romanian Revolution of 1989 was Ceausescus December 21st speech (or lack thereof). I am now talking to you as simple citizens, and I hope that you will tell the truth. Getting a shut-off notice from a utility is also sufficient to claim a hardship exemption. A horse or a hearse? 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. Did you know that you can purchase some of these books and pamphlets by Richard Fernandez and share them with you friends? And Elena says: It is incredible what they are inventing, incredible. We are all equal. 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. Everybody should be paid according to his performance. What happened? PROSECUTOR: Well, Mr. All the world should know what is going on here. They are speaking about injustice, ineptitude and impeachment. Dressed in a black Persian lamb hat with matching coat collar, Ceausesecu, 71, was . Nobody has the right to abolish the Grand National Assembly. Thousands of workers were bused into the square under threat of being fired. He always claimed to act and speak on behalf of the people, to be a beloved son of the people, but he only tyrannized the people all the time. 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UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Mr. President, I would like to know something: the accused should tell us who the mercenaries are. PROSECUTOR: Children cannot even buy plain candy, and you are living in the palaces of the people. At the beginning, Ceauescu claimed that it is a provocation to be asked whether he was sick. Tell us! Romania's dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's final speech (executed 12/25) More Notable Events on December 21: 1997 Detroit Lions Barry Sanders is 3rd to run for 2,000 yards in a season 1991 U.S. actress Jane Fonda marries CNN-director Ted Turner 1989 Dan Quayle sends out 30,000 Xmas cards with word beacon spelled beakon They not only killed children, young people and adults in Timisoara and Bucharest; they allowed Securitate members to wear military uniforms to create the impression among the people that the army is against them. 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. Furnish proof! The palaces belong to the people. Military base Trgovite - December 25th 1989. At the moment the situation is rather uncertain. Suntem in fata unui tribunal al poporului. NICOLAE CEAUESCU: I will answer any question, but only at the Grand National Assembly, before the representatives of the working class. As a result, the prosecutor says: Elena has always been talkative, but otherwise she does not know much. Not a single shot was fired in Palace Square. I will not answer any more. You were so impertinent as to cut off oxygen lines in hospitals and to shoot people in their hospital beds. What about the accounts? Elena and Nicolae Ceausescu must be held fully responsible for this. We must not allow the slightest impression of illegality to emerge. Everybody should be paid according to his performance. 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. PROSECUTOR: In the same way he refused to hold a dialogue with the people, now he also refuses to speak with us. PROSECUTOR: Who ordered shooting into the crowd? You see, there is no use in talking to these people. Only the front rows supported Ceauescu with cheers and applause, with most of the crowd remaining impassive. What do you think? One in four of the population is believed to have a member. The bill of indictment contains the following points: Genocide, in accordance with Article 356 of the penal code. NICOLAE CEAUESCU: What an obscene provocation. 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). 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. The next he was a hunted man. NICOLAE CEAUESCU: We will discuss this before the Grand National Assembly. Two: Armed attack on the people and the state power, in accordance with Article 163 of the penal code. I am the president of the people. You are guilty of these offenses even if you do not want to admit it. Elena and Nicolae reject this. It must be cleared up whether Ceausescu wants to, should, must or can answer at all. At some point the entire structure of governance becomes a system of workarounds with all real power devolved to the man on the ground. This shows how little patriotism there is, how many treasonable offenses were committed. PROSECUTOR: Please, make a note: Nicolae Ceauescu refuses to cooperate with the court-appointed counsel for the defense. His 1936 mugshot at age 18 still haunts the internet. I will only speak in front of it. PROSECUTOR: We have always spoken of equality. You were the most important aide, the number two in the cabinet, in the government. And who brought them into the country? The video- shown live on Romanian television-- shows his confusion and consternation and the barely audible comments. 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. The destruction of buildings and state institutions, undermining of the national economy, in accordance with Articles 165 and 145 of the penal code. NICOLAE CEAUESCU: She was not a deputy prime minister, but the first deputy prime minister. Who pays them? Centralized Information as Hayek points out, eventually becomes the Official Lie. I am talking to you as simple citizens at the least, as simple citizens, and I tell you: I am the president of Romania. The front rows of the assembly were made up of low-level Communist Party officials and members who acted as cheer-leaders. His talks with Dubcek focused primarily on the events that had unfolded in Czechoslovakia over the last several months. President Nicolae Ceauescu was overthrown yesterday and became a fugitive in the country he has ruled for 24 years as remnants of his personal troops fought bitter last battles with regular soldiers and demonstrators in the streets of the Romanian capital. 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. ALISON SMALE December 21, 1989. In the uprising by people against Ceausescu during this speech and in subsequent days 1,058 people lost there lives. Elena says: Look, and that they are calling genocide. Have you understood them? Ceauescu's final speech is a speech delivered by Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauescu on 21 December 1989. I do not recognize the court. A caretaker government was announced within an hour of the dictators capture. Only the front rows supported Ceauescu with cheers and applause, with most of the crowd remaining impassive. They were only busy enslaving the people and building up an apparatus of power. PROSECUTOR: So you know the new forum. I now ask the court to pass a verdict on the basis of the law, because everybody must receive due punishment for the offenses he has committed. He then tried to placate the crowd by offering to raise workers' salaries by 200 lei per month (about 18 U.S. dollars at the time, yet a 10%-20% raise for a modest salary) and student scholarships from 100 to 110 lei while continuing to praise the achievements of the past 42 years. NICOLAE CEAUESCU: I do not recognize this court. PROSECUTOR: We now have another leading organ. I will only speak at the Grand National Assembly. The Ceauescu administrations Prime Minister, Mr Constantin Dsclescu, and his government were said to have resigned. PROSECUTOR: Please, ask Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu whether they have ever had a mental illness. CEAUSESCU: No one recognizes that. CEAUSESCU: I do not recognize you. PROSECUTOR: So you know the new forum. COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENSE: Even though he like her committed insane acts, we want to defend them. The details are known. Immediately before them were plainclothes Securitate agents and a row of police militia, who kept the mass of the crowd about thirty meters back from the front of the Central Committee building. They wanted to separate the people from the army. Last modified on Sun 29 Mar 2020 07.01 EDT President Nicolae Ceauescu was overthrown yesterday and became a fugitive in the country he has ruled for 24 years as remnants of his personal troops.
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