The revolutionary flag was created by cutting the despised communist coat arms arms from the national flag. The media coverage of the event showed the revolution spreading across the country.

But in communist-ruled Romania, mainly you’d find clones of the British Sinclair ZX Spectrum, an 8-bit computer built around the Zilog Z80A, using a CRT TV as display and a BASIC interpreter as UI.

The story of Ion Bugan, who was arrested after demonstrating against the Romanian communist regime under Nicolae Ceausescu. Show more In 1983, Ion Bugan made a personal demonstration against the ...

Forty years of Communist rule has left Soviet-dominated countries grappling with the free-market concept, but Romania has embraced its new freedom with true entrepreneurial zeal. Five years after ...

Ceaucescu and his wife Elena were found guilty by a military tribunal and executed by firing squad It was on Christmas Day 30 years ago that Romania's tyrannical communist dictator Nicolae ...

Only half of the nearly 750,000 Jews from Romania survived the war. Most were impoverished and marginalized. The future ...

Needless to say, freedom and democracy was not to be the lot of Romania, for many years. The country would be under Communist dictatorship, with its own Stalins. From August 1945 to January 1946 ...

As the world watched with incredulity, European communism collapsed in one country after another -- Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and, at year's end, Romania. Communist ...

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The GOP Makes Democrats Pay the Price for Trans Insanity To the entertainment industry, the McCarthy-era blacklist, which led to unemployment for a few dozen Hollywood types, and Communism ...

[1] While children were being infected with HIV in hospitals and orphanages as early as 1985, Communist leaders who refused to recognize the possibility of such illnesses in Romania barred doctors ...