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Re:Readers on food inequality in eastern Europe by peteretep on Saturday September 23, 2017 @10:09AM (#15319792)
Not much. They got to execute Ceaușescu, film it, and show it as a video at Xmas for at least a few years. The whole capitalist part was a sort of added bonus.
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Re:Readers on food inequality in eastern Europe by bitL on Saturday September 23, 2017 @11:34AM (#15320181)
Funny Ceaușescu was considered "too progressive" in Warsaw Pact and wasn't invited to all top-level meetings. I've read he even built a highway on top of mountains to have an escape road in case WP's armies invaded RO.
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Re:Readers on food inequality in eastern Europe by cat199 on Saturday September 23, 2017 @11:55AM (#15320271)
> Funny Ceaușescu was considered "too progressive" in Warsaw Pact and wasn't invited to all top-level meetings.

Don't have actual insight here, but 'progressive' to a soviet bloc communist would likely mean 'ultra communist' e.g. hard line stalinist..

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Re:Readers on food inequality in eastern Europe by bitL on Saturday September 23, 2017 @12:01PM (#15320294)
Alright, then "dangerously regressive" would be a better term ;-)
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Re:Readers on food inequality in eastern Europe by vetinari on Saturday September 23, 2017 @09:07PM (#15322680)
He was kind of black sheep. In 1968, he refused to take part in the invasion of Czechoslovakia.
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