Dramatic Uncut Footage of Romanian Revolution After the Fall of Ceaușescu (1990)

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  • čas přidán 23. 09. 2023
  • On 18 February 1990, ITN's crew in Romania captured the historic moment Romanian civilians - including a large number of miners from the Jiu Valley - stormed the foreign ministry in Bucharest's Victoria Square, an event also known as the February 1990 Mineriad.
    The February Mineriad occurred less than two months after Romania's long-time ruler, Communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, and his wife, Elena Ceaușescu, were executed on Christmas Day 1989 - the culmination of the most violent and spectacular of the anti-Communist revolutions that swept across Eastern Europe that year. As this footage makes stark, social unrest and civil disturbances did not stop once the Communist regime had fallen. The Ceaușescu government was swiftly replaced by the National Salvation Front (FSN), led by former Communist official Ion Iliescu. At the same time, Romania's Jiu Valley miners became a prominent force in street-level politics in post-Ceaușescu Romania, the term mineriad being given to the numerous large-scale, violent protests that saw the miners clash with the FSN. The February Mineriad was one such clash, which saw protesters attack the building being used as the FSN's headquarters in dramatic fashion.
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Komentáře • 99

  • @CitizenAyellowblue
    @CitizenAyellowblue Před 5 měsíci +79

    I think it’s fascinating that the crowds weren’t throwing stones at the soldiers, and the soldiers did not act as if they were fearful of or hostile to the crowds.

    • @qqel-qama8594
      @qqel-qama8594 Před 5 měsíci +2

      go take a nap

    • @RaduB.
      @RaduB. Před 5 měsíci +13

      Most of the people didn't actually want Ion Iliescu at that moment...
      Everybody understood that he was trying to keep the socialist order in place.
      Unfortunately Iliescu was smart enough to understand that this was unwanted and subtly changed his discourse afterwards...

    • @xxsnakexx70
      @xxsnakexx70 Před 4 měsíci +2

      @@RaduB. Si cand te gandesti ca tot noi il puteam da jos.Noi ne-am uitat pasivi.Trist!!

    • @itheicequeen
      @itheicequeen Před 4 měsíci

      They couldn't. It was forbidden. Because thet shot the people in 22 of december when Ceausescu ordered it.

    • @javieru53
      @javieru53 Před 4 měsíci +9

      Most of them were conscript that gave zero fucks.

  • @mikefromusa6902
    @mikefromusa6902 Před 2 měsíci +11

    I’m sitting here in the US with a Lady who was there and she told us all about this- they cut the flags up without the symbol in the middle of it.

  • @presidentstaatshoofd473
    @presidentstaatshoofd473 Před 5 měsíci +42

    History always repeats itself.

    • @megaotstoy
      @megaotstoy Před 4 měsíci +2

      you mean Jan 6th Riot?

    • @royale7620
      @royale7620 Před 3 měsíci

      @@megaotstoy No he means dumb leftoids who parrot ploy stories like a good bot that you are.

    • @b.l.1414
      @b.l.1414 Před 2 měsíci +1

      ​@@megaotstoyYes. Also, the impending presidential election of Donald Trump in November 2024. He's dead set on destroying the constitution to create the society these people were liberated from in 1989. Trump is a dictator in waiting.

    • @WooBino.
      @WooBino. Před měsícem

      @@royale7620 Where were you 1/6?

  • @fratercontenduntocculta8161
    @fratercontenduntocculta8161 Před 5 měsíci +32

    I think it's quite symbolic of how the Soldiers are just holding ground, not being overly hostile. They know their fate is in the hands of their opposing countrymen.

  • @mihaelavoievidca6860
    @mihaelavoievidca6860 Před 5 měsíci +15

    CZcams canceled some comments,shame on you

  • @aleksandergabriel2541
    @aleksandergabriel2541 Před 6 měsíci +13

    What kind of troops are guys in blue berets? They have very odd uniforms compared to regular romanian army.

    • @sorinnita531
      @sorinnita531 Před 6 měsíci +6

      PARAȘUTIȘTI

    • @aleksandergabriel2541
      @aleksandergabriel2541 Před 6 měsíci +5

      @@sorinnita531 Thank you.

    • @GG-hu9dn
      @GG-hu9dn Před 5 měsíci

      Young army cadets ? Less intimidating so as not to rile up the crowd?! :-)

    • @RaduB.
      @RaduB. Před 5 měsíci +3

      @@GG-hu9dn
      Nope. They were paratroopers.

    • @gabyradu8266
      @gabyradu8266 Před 4 měsíci +4

      @@GG-hu9dn You asking why the soldiers were so young? Back then the enlistment began at 18 yrs to 20 + yrs old. The enlistment was mandatory for any young man . I was 18 yrs old in those days

  • @DIASPORA2024
    @DIASPORA2024 Před 5 měsíci +8

    Dominic Samuel Fritz (born 28 December 1983) is a German-born politician who has been serving as the mayor of Timișoara since 2020, following the latest Romanian local elections. A member of the Save Romania Union, he is the only mayor in Romania without Romanian citizenship.[2]
    Dominic Fritz

    • @paulc3735
      @paulc3735 Před 5 měsíci +4

      lol, so your point is?

    • @DIASPORA2024
      @DIASPORA2024 Před 5 měsíci

      @@paulc3735 👍💯🔴USR este singurul partid
      care poate moderniza România. Oamenii nu mai
      au nevoie de promisiuni, ci de planuri concrete
      și funcționale și suntem aici pentru a le pune în
      practică. Am început Revoluţia Bunei Guvernări cu
      primari USR în cele mai importante orașe din țară
      dar și în comunități mai mici, o voce mai puternică
      în Parlament, cu mai mulţi deputați și senator
      hotărâţi să lupte pentru o #Romaniefarahotie, și
      europarlamentari USR care continuă să apere
      interesele României la Bruxelles.

    • @sybex200
      @sybex200 Před 5 měsíci +7

      That's why we can't sleep.🤣

    • @BullRadu
      @BullRadu Před 4 měsíci

      finally. we need foreign people inr omania to do things because romanians are too corrupt to do anything. i am romanian and i have been through a few places in europe and i can say, romania is the most corrupt country in europe and it starts from the people on the street

  • @tommo9176
    @tommo9176 Před 5 měsíci +8

    How do we know they weren't there on a tour? 😂

  • @alexandrunicolae9485
    @alexandrunicolae9485 Před 5 měsíci +5

    Doamne-Ferește de deciziile sau judecățile unei asemenea gloate !

    • @moldovandorin6187
      @moldovandorin6187 Před 5 měsíci

      nu i-am inteles multa vreme ... acum imi pare rau ca nu i-au scos ochii lu iliescu si n-au facut o ciorba din creierii lui, jigodia

  • @cornel-antonietraistaru4479
    @cornel-antonietraistaru4479 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Pe vremea aceea se foloseau instigatori ai puterii, gloata, la fel se întâmplă și astăzi, se lua după ei și la urmă tagea ponoasele. Securitatea nu a murit, doar un pic a hodinit.

  • @Adrian-bb1bh
    @Adrian-bb1bh Před 6 měsíci +10

    Vremuri grele am trait.

    • @qqel-qama8594
      @qqel-qama8594 Před 5 měsíci +8

      stai sa vezi deacum incolo..

    • @DIASPORA2024
      @DIASPORA2024 Před 5 měsíci +1

      ​@@qqel-qama8594 CAUTĂ DOMINIC FRITZ şi Interlopi din TIMIŞOARA

    • @qqel-qama8594
      @qqel-qama8594 Před 5 měsíci

      pupa-l-ar pestii si pe ala si pe clotilde armand si toti useristii si toti hotii si tradatorii de tara indiferent de partid@@DIASPORA2024

    • @brb4903
      @brb4903 Před 5 měsíci

      du-te ma si te culca@@qqel-qama8594

    • @user-bq8xs1up6i
      @user-bq8xs1up6i Před 5 měsíci

      It’s repeating itself again and if China becomes the dominant power in the world we are all screwed for eternity

  • @DIASPORA2024
    @DIASPORA2024 Před 5 měsíci +6

    Hai ROMÂNIA hai ca se poate. . . . 2024USR

    • @Steady76
      @Steady76 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Se poate si mai rau..daca vin usr-istii😂

    • @alexandros1443
      @alexandros1443 Před 4 měsíci

      In USR vad si eu raul cel mai mic dintre toti escrocii dar nu cred ca ai cu cine,in mediul rural se va vota pesedee maica că a crescut ciolacu pensilii n-ai vazut?😂 dar puterea de cumparare a banului n-o observa nimeni?Am spus'o si am s'o mai spun ROMANIA stat esuat!😢

    • @royale7620
      @royale7620 Před 3 měsíci

      USR a dat faliment in 2019, nu vrem neo-liberali cu idei falimentare, muie la toti.

    • @DIASPORA2024
      @DIASPORA2024 Před 3 měsíci

      @@Steady76 TIMIŞOARA ❤ se MIŞCĂ 🇷🇴👍
      czcams.com/video/XQUVoR44tZc/video.htmlsi=DunH2wcQ5_ux_HwK

    • @DIASPORA2024
      @DIASPORA2024 Před 3 měsíci

      @@Steady76 💪TIMIŞOARA ♥️
      #DominicFritz 💪

  • @Sunshine-lo6vd
    @Sunshine-lo6vd Před 5 měsíci +7

    Wow este color. Mișto

  • @virgilchereches5033
    @virgilchereches5033 Před 7 měsíci +6

    Emanatu Pl. De Jidan cu șeful lui de Jidan Brukan.

    • @alexevo8016
      @alexevo8016 Před 5 měsíci +1

      Corect, un Zelensky mai bătrân…

  • @BullRadu
    @BullRadu Před 5 měsíci +6

    Makes documentary about the mineriad and fails to say how it was all orchestrated by Iliescu

    • @andrewjones-productions
      @andrewjones-productions Před 4 měsíci +7

      This isn't a documentary. It is archive camera footage with no narration. The hint is in the title.

  • @georgegeorgakopoulos5956
    @georgegeorgakopoulos5956 Před 4 měsíci +5

    Ceausescu or the western banks, what do you prefer?

    • @alexandros1443
      @alexandros1443 Před 4 měsíci +7

      Mai bine liberi,fiecare om sa fie propiul lui judecator,sa fie lumea sanatoasa si cu putere de munca ca nu moare nimeni de foame stati linistiti❤

    • @simonasjuodka5841
      @simonasjuodka5841 Před 3 měsíci +8

      @@alexandros1443 If to prefer of two evils, better banks. Better to be poor but free

    • @surendramumgai631
      @surendramumgai631 Před 2 měsíci +1

      ​@@simonasjuodka5841How can u be free if u r poor and live in the midst of rich people ?

    • @cilibalint3169
      @cilibalint3169 Před 2 měsíci +4

      @@surendramumgai631 give me an effin break, if you are poor but free, at least you have a chance to change your own life. and what's your point, anyway? like if everyone were so wealthy under the time of Ceausescu or any other dictatorships...? 😅

    • @surendramumgai631
      @surendramumgai631 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@cilibalint3169 maximum number of poor people all over the world live in poverty all their lives and die in poverty unless they're helped to come out of that poverty...and that's the whole idea behind helping the poor whether by the state or private charity groups....sorry, u seem to live in a world where things happen magically to people if only they're " free "... Besides, if romanians were not free in 1989 how did they make their revolution and even executed ceausescu and his wife through an act of deliberate murder....in today's romania they can only criticise their leaders but can they make a similar revolution ?

  • @nicusorstanciu7629
    @nicusorstanciu7629 Před 4 měsíci

    Fotografiati monopolul strain mascarade vecine interne straine o regie tirziu v ati trezit

  • @sveinsigurdgismarvik4445
    @sveinsigurdgismarvik4445 Před měsícem

    Finally gone the Great Sonn of the Universe, with braincells of Silver...😮

  • @johnwalsh7806
    @johnwalsh7806 Před 5 měsíci +7

    Communism? A load of rubbish.

    • @kikilosabeyno
      @kikilosabeyno Před 3 měsíci +1

      Unfortunately Romania is not doing better under capitalism.

    • @royale7620
      @royale7620 Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@kikilosabeyno It is, keep quiet bolshevik.

    • @scipion34
      @scipion34 Před měsícem

      @@kikilosabeyno More like corruption if anything.

  • @noureddineelaroussi7680
    @noureddineelaroussi7680 Před 5 měsíci +7

    January 6th? anyone?

    • @adiaarau4463
      @adiaarau4463 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Exactly the same set up

    • @SilverBullet93GT
      @SilverBullet93GT Před 4 měsíci

      nu am avut Șaman Chiuanonez :)

    • @royale7620
      @royale7620 Před 3 měsíci

      Not even close, you Americans should stay at home with these dumb comments. As a foreigner from a mile away you can see Jan 6th was nothing lmao. Try the 2020 Summer, it might come close to it.

    • @chrismorris6865
      @chrismorris6865 Před 3 měsíci

      Not even remotely the same thing. January 6th was a terrorist attack intended to overthrow democracy and install a dictatorship. The Romanian Revolution was a heroic uprising against a dictator by people wanting democracy. Polar opposites.

  • @Cristip
    @Cristip Před 5 měsíci +4

    Cat de manipulati am fost...CIA isi facea treaba cu succes. Avea ceva dreptate dar a pierdut caci nu doar USA era geana pe Romania.

    • @sybex200
      @sybex200 Před 5 měsíci

      CIA pe naiba.Influente rusofile,psihoza maselor si frica de democratie.Singurul manipulator a fost Iliescu si guvernul sau.Romanii l-au votat de doua ori pe Iliescu si apoi se plang de saracie si coruptie.Iliescu e ala care a convins milioane de romani sa plece la munca in strainatate.

    • @omi685
      @omi685 Před 5 měsíci +5

      Spune Ceaușescu și trage apa 🚾

    • @allabbw
      @allabbw Před 5 měsíci

      на этих кадрах нищета и коммунизм ,но конечно америка виновата..америка далеко не англел, но румыния сейчас далеко не а такой заднице..видимо вы слишком хорошо начали жить и вам становится скучно..😀

  • @carlosjimenezp
    @carlosjimenezp Před 2 měsíci +1

    I hate the Romanian flag

  • @francolupis5642
    @francolupis5642 Před 5 měsíci +3

    LO MISMO DE LO QUE ESTÀ PASANDO EN ESPAÑA...MUCHO QUIDADO PEDRO...TE METEN PIES ARRIBA