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Re:Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Exp... by RealityVoid on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @02:20AM (#43169148)
I did not live through it, but Ceaușescu in the 80's had gotten it stuck in his mind to pay Romanian national debt. So they enforced a set of draconic measures that decreased the quality of life of the populace immensely.

Not saying that is what will happen here, but this is the first thing I associate in my mind when I hear of some "decisive" leader trying to pay the country's debts.

Re:Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Exp... by MandieD on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @09:17AM (#43172130)
Ceausescu also had that insane forced-birth policy where women under 45 (later relaxed to 40, but then raised back to 45) who had not yet had 4 (later 5) children were not only banned from using birth control or getting abortions, they were regularly pregnancy tested.

Sure, it resulted in a baby boom, but it also ended up creating those infamous orphanages full of neglected children: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_770

Re:Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Exp... by RealityVoid on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @12:42PM (#43174971)
Yes, some call the people born in that era "decreței" loosely translated as children of the decree. Yes, they did not really respect women's reproductive rights. There are a bunch of horror stories about that aspect of Ceaușescu's regime.