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Part Four: Nicolae Ceaușescu: The Dracula of Being A Dick

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The Romanians Are Going to Have to Spend a Lot of Money on Radioactive Poison

Jeffrey Toobin: If you're a journalist writing against a state and they have to use the radioactive poison against you, that's like the Pulitzer getting radioactive poison slipped in your car. So this is something that the Romanians are going to have to spend a lot of money on. He says when tightened belts put the securitat in a budget crunch, they were able to rake in extra cash from a foreign benefactor. Toobin: You want to guess what foreign company secretly funded the Securitat during the most repressive years of Cechescu's regime? But I feel like I'm not going to nail down because my first answer was McDonald's.

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