010 - Every Party Needs a Pooper and That’s Why We Invited Ceaușescu, Part Two
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11/08/21 • 156 min
The tenth of a sixteen-part series about twentieth-century Romania, this episode explores the rise of "honorary scientist" Elena Ceaușescu, the lives of those rascally Ceaușescu Kids, Nicolae's first efforts as "Conducător 2.0", and a flashback to Trajan's Bridge, as well as the etymologies of Romania and the Romani.
Series: Ceaușescu's Downfall (10/16)
Outro: "The Power of Music (Old Spice)" by melodysheep (YouTube, Bandcamp)
Further reading on nomadic magic-peoples: "Jedis, Pastafarians and Zuists: How should Christians respond to the rise of DIY religion?" by the desperate reverend Mark Woods
The tenth of a sixteen-part series about twentieth-century Romania, this episode explores the rise of "honorary scientist" Elena Ceaușescu, the lives of those rascally Ceaușescu Kids, Nicolae's first efforts as "Conducător 2.0", and a flashback to Trajan's Bridge, as well as the etymologies of Romania and the Romani.
Series: Ceaușescu's Downfall (10/16)
Outro: "The Power of Music (Old Spice)" by melodysheep (YouTube, Bandcamp)
Further reading on nomadic magic-peoples: "Jedis, Pastafarians and Zuists: How should Christians respond to the rise of DIY religion?" by the desperate reverend Mark Woods
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009 - Every Party Needs a Pooper and That’s Why We Invited Ceaușescu, Part One
The ninth of a sixteen-part series about twentieth-century Romania, this episode explores the baby-boom of Decree 770 and the distressing consequences of natalism, Romania's lovely-but-brief affair with Westernization, and the influence that North Korea and China bore on Ceaușescu's gestating cult of personality.
Series: Ceaușescu's Downfall (9/16)
Outro: the ProleteR remix of Frank Sinatra's "That's Life."
Further reading on the children of Bucharest's underground: Vice, National Geographic, Feature Shoot.
"I'd like to give the world a ghost, to keep them company..."
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011 - A Great Upheaval, Part One
The eleventh of a sixteen-part series about twentieth-century Romania, this episode explores the construction of Ceaușescu's absolutely-massive palace, the dissent of writer Paul Goma, the defection of Securitate chief Jon Mihai Pacepa, the Jiu Valley miners' strike, and the slow collapse of the state economy.
Series: Ceaușescu's Downfall (11/16)
Outro: "On Point" by Old Man Saxon (YouTube)
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