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

Behind the Bastards

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The Importance of Dracula

Romanian steel is of terrible quality. There's also massive corruption and corner cutting, which means none of their products are actually very safe to use. Romanian televisions were known to be as likely to burn your house down as let you watch three's company. And so once they start producing this stuff, European countries get a look at these things and are like, well, these will kill people. It's a very Soviet idea, like the asshole. But some houses burned down is fine. Dracula would say, sometimes you get impaled, sometimes impaled gets you, you know? So you just take it from nationally rehabilitated hero Vlad the Impaler.

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