National Communism: Difference between revisions

[[File:Cball-SRRomania.png]] '''Ceaușescuism:''' Nicolae Ceaușescu was the communist dictator of Romania from 1965-1989. His refusal to participate in the invasion of Czechoslovakia and his speech condemning the invasion in 1968 skyrocketed him to popularity in his own country and with western nations abroad. This set a pattern of a very anti-Soviet foreign policy for the rest of his reign. Ceaușescu took heavy inspiration from [[Maoism]] and [[Juche]], Kim-Il Sung's grandiose parades and personality cult inspiring him to put on similar showcases back home in Romania. He developed one of the most pervasive personality cults in the Eastern Bloc, so much so that many observers remarked that it was the closest thing to an old-style functioning [[Stalinism|Stalinist]] regime, with the secret police (Securitate) monitoring every aspect of life and violently repressing any dissent against his regime. He also allocated funds to huge national monuments dedicated to himself, the most famous being the Palace of Parliament, which is the largest palace in the world and remains unfinished to this day.

Ceaușescu refused to liberalize during the period of ''glasnost'' and ''perestroika,'' and was very displeased when other members of the Warsaw Pact began reforming as well. He was referred to as "The Romanian Fuhrer" by Gorbachev. His reign of terror would eventually come to an end during the Romanian Revolution of 1989, where him and his wife Elena Ceaușescu were put on trial and executed by firing squad on national television.

[[File:Rankovic.png]] '''Rankovićism''': Alexandar Ranković was a Serbian communist who worked as head of the ministry of interior, helping Tito purge Stalinists following the Yugo-Soviet Split. He also lead a reign of terror against Albanians in Kosovo, favoring Serb dominance over Yugoslavia, while rejecting recognition of Bosnian identity and wanting centralization of Yugoslavia. Eventually, he was fired from his position after being accused of wiretapping Tito's office. Ranković's policies heavily influenced [[File:Milosevic.png]] [[Ethnic Nationalism|Slobodan Milošević]].

[[File:Tito.png]] '''[[Titoism]]''' could also be seen as a type of Natcom, but unlike Rankovićism, it is [[File:PanSlav.png]] [[Pan-Slavism|Pan-Slavic]] rather than Serb supremacist.