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Review: Red Horizons – The True Story of Nicolae & Elena Ceausescus’ Crimes, Lifestyle, and Corruption – by Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa

Wez G March 23, 2023 No Comments assassination blackmail Bucharest Carlos the Jackal cold war Colonel Gadaffi Communism Communist Communist dictator corruption crime death democracy dictator dictatorship die directorate East Germany Eastern Bloc Eastern Europe Elena Ceausescu espionage GDR Human rights industrial espionage Iron Curtain Kremlin Lt Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa Marie Antoinette middle east NATO Nicolae Ceausescu Nicu Ceausescu Oppression PAcepa Paranoia Police State Politics pornography President Jimmy Carter proapaganda Radio Free Europe Romania royal Russia secret police Soviet Union spy Stasi totalitarian totalitarianism tryranny USA USSR Warsaw Pact west White House Yasser Arafat

I was just chatting away to Ionutz a security nurse in the local mental hospital and he’s Romanian. I passed through Bucharest a few years ago en route to Istanbul on a train journey traversing Eastern Europe. Romania seemed quite rural, poor and quite different to the Europe with which…

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Review: Stasiland – Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall – by Anna Funder

Wez G October 6, 2022 No Comments AnnaFunder Berlin Wall cold war Communism Communist East Germany espionage GDR Germany Iron Curtain Mik Jegger Russia secret police Soviet Union Stasi Stasiland Surveillance USSR

The Stasi were the brutal secret police in the GDR (German Democratic Republic) or East Germany. After the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, East and West Germany once again became reunited. Funder is an Australian journalist who, in this award-winning book,…

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