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

Behind the Bastards

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What Happened When Paseepa Destroyed Nikolai?

By 1989, there are 104,000 orphaned children that are institutionalized in Romanian government facilities. Czetscu made it illegal to own or operate a typewriter because he's angry that people are writing things. By the time Paseepa defected nearly all Romanians working overseas had some ties to the secure. You had to be passing them a little bit of info in order to be allowed to leave. But once Paseepo betrayed Nikolai, Nikolai makes overseas travel effectively illegal.

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