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Alexis Gerard gave props (26 Oct 2009):
Ahh...wonderful
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Aaron Schwartz gave props (29 Oct 2009):
excellent - where is that? They obviously cut down every tree in sight to build the place. I wish this lonely little guy luck.
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Andrew Weston said (30 Oct 2009):
Great perspective. That big building in the back looks almost like the Potala!!??!!!!!
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dana iordan said (30 Oct 2009):
the building is the so-called "Ceausescu's palace" -- a whole quarter of Bucharest has been wiped off to make room for the dictator's pharaonic wishes
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Harry Maconeil said (1 Nov 2009):
that was the crazy years.I reminber the helicopter of Ceausescu' on top of the palace? was this the one?And when the tv was free and everything was in direct 24 24 and the whole world could see the revolution in direct.
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dana iordan said (2 Nov 2009):
Ceausescu took off from the top of another building, the headquarter of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, the palace above wasn't finished at the time.
The 'revolution' everybody saw on tv nevertheless remained opaque, shrouded in mystery -- who were the 'terrorists' that were shooting then? And the newly found freedom of the tv -- and of most romanian social and political structures -- sounds now more like some theater play, given that many active supporters of the communist times are now impersonating new, clean agents of honesty and freedom. No process of the political police has taken place, most of the past is still classified as 'national security' issues and apparently many dossiers have been destroyed. So all the unproven thieves are honest merchants -- as a proverb says. : ) And very rich, these merchants... -
Ronnie Ginnever gave props (13 Nov 2009):
Awesome!
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