I was living in Bayern/Bavaria at the time and don't recall reading contemporaneous reports. I wonder now what else I missed. I seem to recall attempted mass destruction of secret police files across Eastern Europe at the time.
I was aware of the library burning but didn't really get the timeline of executing Nicolae Ceaușescu & his wife. I'm looking at the censorship during the Ceaușescu era. You are right--it means I have to do some work on the secret police, too. I think in the West we were focused on Berlin and didn't really absorb what happened in Romania.
Great picture as the lead.
I remember the news when it was going on, and it sucks that the library burned but the Ceausescu's deserved that by all accounts.
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war sucks
I haven't been able to find if the library was targeted because of secret police near it but maybe.
I was living in Bayern/Bavaria at the time and don't recall reading contemporaneous reports. I wonder now what else I missed. I seem to recall attempted mass destruction of secret police files across Eastern Europe at the time.
I was aware of the library burning but didn't really get the timeline of executing Nicolae Ceaușescu & his wife. I'm looking at the censorship during the Ceaușescu era. You are right--it means I have to do some work on the secret police, too. I think in the West we were focused on Berlin and didn't really absorb what happened in Romania.
Almost everything in Eastern Europe during the Cold War has to be seen through the lens of the secret police. It was the single, eternal constant.