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The Man They Killed on Christmas Day (Romania Explained To My Friends Abroad Book 1) (English Edition) Formato Kindle

Edizione Inglese di Catalin Gruia (Autore) Formato: Formato Kindle
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Essential Ceausescu


The Life of Romanian Communist Dictator Nicolae Ceausescu: Road to Hell Paved with Good Intentions



A black dog licks at a puddle of blood in which two old people lie, executed on Christmas day in the Targoviste garrison, Romania. Following a kangaroo trial, a special tribunal sentenced them to death by shooting in December 1989 for “serious crimes against the people of Romania.” He died instantly. The woman died a minute later, after the execution squad’s paratroop captain furiously emptied another round in her. Thus Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu’s five-decade journey together ended, after they started from the bottom, seized power, and grew old while ruling the country.

Who Was That Man They Killed on Christmas Day



Adulated for all of his 24 years in power, during which he came to personify Romania, Romanian communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu – dethroned and replaced by some of his former barons – was turned into a scapegoat for all the evils done to Romanians. But the question remains: Between these two extremes, who was the real Nicolae Ceausescu ?
During his regime, Ceausescu's image had been painted in sparkling white. Once he was killed – everything turned to pitch black. This documentary aims to paint a portrait in color, with all shades of grey included, combining the good and bad, the light and the dark extremes of the life of Nicolae Ceausescu (aka Ceaucescu).

This book is a concise journalistic style account of Ceausescu’s life, following his path through:


• A miserable childhood
• A boyhood in prisons
• A rising youth in the Romanian Communist Party
• The honeymoon of his beginnings as the youngest ever political leader in Europe
• Times of glory and seizing absolute power
• The rough years of decline
• A violent death

Ceausescu 101


Dear reader – stop here for a second, please!
You should know from the very beginning this is not an exhaustive, academic paper. Author Catalin Gruia is a veteran journalist who has written and reported for the Romanian edition of National Geographic for over 10 years. What you’ll find here is a concise journalistic account of Ceausescu’s life.

* For behind the scenes information about Gruia's books -->https://www.facebook.com/ByCatalinGruia
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    103 pagine
  2. Lingua
    Inglese
  3. Memo
    Su Kindle Scribe
  4. Data di pubblicazione
    16 gennaio 2014
  5. Età di lettura
    14 - 18 anni
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Catalin Gruia is a veteran journalist who has written and reported for the Romanian edition of National Geographic for over 10 years. He is currently Editor in Chief of National Geographic Traveler and Deputy Editor in Chief of National Geographic Romania.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00DS7SYVY
  • Editore ‏ : ‎ 37-Minutes Publishing House; 1° edizione (16 gennaio 2014)
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Dimensioni file ‏ : ‎ 1351 KB
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  • Memo ‏ : ‎ Su Kindle Scribe
  • Lunghezza stampa ‏ : ‎ 103 pagine
  • Numeri di pagina fonte ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1492282596
  • Recensioni dei clienti:
    3,6 3,6 su 5 stelle 94 voti

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Zed
5,0 su 5 stelle Gives a very good summary of the events that occurred over his regime
Recensito in Canada il 19 giugno 2015
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Gives a very good summary of the events that occurred over his regime. It is a quick and easy read, while providing a good starting point into the Romanian history for that time period.
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E. B. Patterson
4,0 su 5 stelle its clear and I recommend it to anyone who enjoys history from a personal ...
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 19 settembre 2014
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Without following the news closely it can be hard to keep abreast of all the changes that have happend in my lifetime (and maybe yours) in Eastern Europe. This story brings home the impact to the folks who live there how a dictator affects the common people, the ones who just happen to abide in an area of the world that is unstable. Not a long read, its clear and I recommend it to anyone who enjoys history from a personal perspective.
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Grogster
4,0 su 5 stelle A modern tragedy
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 30 gennaio 2014
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I stumbled upon this book whilst trawling through the kindle store and I'm glad I did. I was interested to read this account of the events of Christmas 1989 because during the summer of that year, I visited Romania as a tourist. Whilst touring this beautiful country, I had no clue as to what would happen there a mere 4 months later. Although this account is very sparse, (it's written by a journalist in a very journalistic style) it gives a very good outline and has made me seek out more titles on the subject. Also, it can easily be read in one sitting! A good place to start research
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Mrs. Rylla Dragan
5,0 su 5 stelle Very accurate account
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 16 febbraio 2015
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It was an excellent account I can partly relate to. Being brought up in a totalitarian regime I experienced some similarities, although it wasn't as bad as in Romania. I have read several books about these 2 terrible dictators and the bad legacy they left behind. The suffering, the sickness including Cholera in some remote part, AIDS and disability due to the enforced population exposure program. My only negative comment about this book is, that I wish it was longer. For the sake of future generations, it is important to revive the past in books and it is a good learning curve for them not to make the
same mistakes in the future.
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Bogdan Banica
5,0 su 5 stelle Witness to a terrible piece of history
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 22 agosto 2013
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I was 12 years old back in december 1989 when Revolution burst out.
Christmas lost its magic.
The riot in the street and the sound of fireguns shots replaced the magic with terror.
Still, unvoiced joy made its way through adults'eyes, while an anxious silence grabbed everybody.
Unlike adults, I experienced some kind of a paradoxal feeling of regret for the dethroned dictator.
In school I was thaught to respect him. He was some kind of hero turning the very idea of justice into something touchable.
All of a sudden the handsome, smiling man whose neverfailing portrait throned on every school classroom wall was caught. Strangely, on TV I saw he was old and helpless. I felt sorry for him.
I wondered how was it possible for such old helpless man to have control over a country of people who hated him?? How was it still possible for us, the young ones to like him, though??
Reading Catalin Gruia's book I came to get the whole picture and the explanations I needed to solve out the paradox.
Catalin has the power to synthetise and restore a complicated long story by emphasizing the key moments and to equally provide the reader with the detailed and juicy insights to keep him / her on the edge of the seat.
He has a great capacity to sense out the essential and combine journalistic objective narration with interesting reflections and surprising details.
For instance, he draws attention on the enactment of a law replacing the term Mr./Mrs/MS with Comrade/Citizen or the law that limited the circulation of cars on Sunday by odd/vs/even plate numbers every other week.
These may look like fiction stories, but were actually enacted and experienced in real life, less than 30 years ago.
I found this book very useful and easy to read.
I was answered questions I have asked myself and I have also found essential information hard to dig for and select on my own.
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