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 https[[File://static.miraheze.org/polcompballwiki/0/0e/JucheMao.png]] [[Maoism]] and https[[File://static.miraheze.org/polcompballwiki/0/0e/Juche.png]] [[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 https[[File://static.miraheze.org/polcompballwiki/b/be/Stalin.png]] [[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.