Oh yes, and when I recently talked to one well-off Romanian guy, who sounds apolitical, he was like “Yeah, ok, ‘communism bad’, but at least back then we could have our own place to live in.

I had this machine-translated and hilariously enough, the article is basically blaming the “hostile foreign powers” manipulating “social media”, so probably “Russia, Russia, Russia”.

In socialist Yugoslavia, we definitely considered socialist Romania a backwater country ran by a weirdo, since they were doing quite a bit worse than we did, at the time, but it makes me think that Romanians must be massively disillusioned and disappointed with their transition to capitalist country.

I think it’s more of a testament to how bad the post socialist years have been vs a testament to Ceausescu being a particularly good leader. It’s also a question of how much to people attribute the good to Ceausescu vs the rest of the party and how much to people attribute the bad to Ceausescu vs the rest of the party.