Caught Live on Instagram: "On December 21, 1989, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu stood on a balcony in Bucharest to deliver what was meant to be a triumphant speech. For decades, he had ruled Romania through fear, censorship, and propaganda. That day, however, the crowd below no longer obeyed. As Ceaușescu began to speak, people started jeering, shouting “Timișoara!”—the city where his forces had just massacred protesters days earlier. Live cameras captured the moment his confident expressio

The Palace of the People in Bucharest (now Palatul Parlamentului) is one of the largest administrative buildings in the world and was built under Nicolae Ceaușescu in the 1980s. It is considered a symbol of the regime's megalomania: gigantic, ostentatious and extremely expensive. The construction consumed enormous resources, while large sections of the population suffered from supply shortages. | Decay Addiction

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