Ceausescu's Romanian Palace: "Let them eat cake!"

  

Ceausescu's Romanian Palace: "Let them eat cake!"

      Bucharest is a very beautiful city, no doubt about that.  Its neo-Romanian-style nineteenth-century architectural wonderfulness puts this vibrant metropolis in the same league with Prague, Budapest and Vienna.  But Bucharest also has a dark side as well.  Nicolae Ceausescu, Romania's dictator from 1965 to 1989, was a very evil man -- and his wife Elena was even worse.

      Today I went on a tour of Ceausescu's elaborately decorated 80-room mansion.  Geez Louise.  Its decor was stiff, daunting and formidable -- not very homey at all.  He obviously chose all its furnishings based solely on how expensive they were.  Carrara marble.  Hand-woven tapestries.  Chairs you could barely sit on but looked like they cost a mint.  

      Each of his children had an elaborate individual suite -- but can you possibly even imagine kids actually being raised there?  Suppose one of Ceausescu's offspring might have actually done something childlike -- spilling milk on one of the mansion's priceless elaborately-inlaid parquet floors?

      Millions, possibly billions, of dollars were spent on this tacky bourgeois mansion -- and yet all during Ceausescu's reign of terror, the average Romanian was poor as dirt.  And all of them particularly hated Elena Ceausescu after she came up with the horrific idea of doling out food stamps to Romanians that would only entitle them to buy food equaling a mere 500 calories a day -- but only if said food was available.

    One of the most highly-guarded secrets in Romania during the Ceausescu dictatorship was that this supreme cornucopia of overpowering luxuriousness was hidden away inside its First Family's mansion.  

     Too late!  

      Even without all this ostentatious and grandiose wealth rubbed in their faces, Romanians were already pissed off.  And in 1989, Nicholai and Elena were busted, tried in a military court, found guilty of mass murder, lined up against a wall and shot dead by a firing squad -- but most of the bullets were fired at Elena because of her cruel food-stamp decree.

     "The main upstairs suite was designed in the style of Marie Antoinette," said the tour guide.  How appropriate.  But at least Nicholai and Elena Ceausescu weren't guillotined.

     "And why are you telling me all this?" you might ask.  Hmmm.  Is it because history is currently repeating itself?  Could it be that the impoverished, homeless, jobless and bitter citizens of America, Europe and the Global South today are also sick and tired of hearing about all these Endless Wars that are bankrupting both our economies and our morals?  

      Could it be that America's and Europe's underclasses (not to mention the whole world's Axis of Resistance) are also resenting the enormous gap between us lowly peasants and our diamond-studded billionaire leaders -- such as the Epstein Class's gross celebrations after one of their own recently became the world's first trillionaire at our expense? 

     Or perhaps we are finally fed up with central banks like the Federal Reserve and the IMF constantly chiding us to tighten our belts and work harder -- while they rob us blind, look down their noses at us, call out their riot police on us and say "Let them eat cake!"

PS:  In Nazi Germany, the elite classes scapegoated Jews.  Zionists now scapegoat Palestinians whenever things go wrong.  And Americans and Europeans scapegoat immigrants for our overlords' bad behavior.

        Instead of creating legions of Robin Hoods who rob from the rich and give to the poor or replicating the Christ-like behavior of being nice to each other because we are all human, we willingly condone genocides, scapegoat victimized immigrants and form up lynch mobs -- while billionaire elite classes laugh all the way to the bank.  "Look over there and not over here!"

Resources:

Just what does the billionaire want?  Patrick Henningsen tells us:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBBO7Gc_POw

Europe has just screwed itself (again):  https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-fall-of-europe-and-its-geostrategic

The banality of evil: NAZA exposes it all.  https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/naza-its-not-just-about-israel-and-gaza-its-about-evil-hiding-us-all

Danny Haiphong's guest Mark Weusbrot tells us all about the election in Brazil:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iarDkD8tFhs  

And here's Mark's article on Brazil's election too (Lula won!)  https://cepr.net/publications/the-nation-brazils-decision-the-moral-compass-and-basic-humanity-of-political-leaders-really-does-matter/

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