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

Behind the Bastards

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Ceausescu's College Pranks

Ceausescu announced that similar reforms would only come to Romania when pairs grew from apple trees. A group of theater kids get so incensed by this that they gather as many pairs as they could. This does not go well with Ceausescu. The Tots so infuriated him, he ordered his secure Tots secret police to identify the perpetrators and attack the students in their dormitories,. Other students took to the university square where more than a hundred were slaughtered that night.

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