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

Behind the Bastards

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Nikolay Dubczyk and the Czech Republic

So the Soviets invade Czechoslovakia. They arrest this guy Dubczyk and they, you know, put an end to this whole we're going to try opening shit up a little bit here. And Nikolay is in the dangerous position. He does not have Soviet soldiers in his country, but obviously Romania is not going to win a war with the Soviet Union. So he calculates kind of accurately that the USSR, they've just blown a lot of political capital and taken a risk themselves in occupying Czechoslovakia,. They're not going to want to fuck with Romania right now, right? Because they're kind of dealing with this shitstorm already. But what he is pretty good at is

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