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

Behind the Bastards

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The Romanian Communist Party Is a Proto Socialist Party

He's got to back anything that he thinks will make people feel an identity separate from the Soviet Union. He starts backing, he starts like really supporting a series of like books and kind of questionable historical tracks about guys like Vlad Dracula and the Emperor Tration who he kind of turns into a Romanian. While they while he's kind of backing guys like Dracula and Emperor Tration, they have to be framed as proto socialist,. They're not communist, obviously, because communism didn't exist back when Dracula's walking around.

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