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« on: November 05, 2015, 11:51:23 PM »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu

Seems we've had polls on just about every other 'Villain' but this one, unless I missed it.
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« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2015, 11:59:01 PM »

HP (normal)
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« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2015, 01:20:56 AM »

HP for perusing an independent foreign policy (normal Soviet)
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« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2015, 01:41:43 AM »

He commissioned the Transfăgărășan, so FF.

But really, though. Obvious HP is obvious.
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« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2015, 02:19:13 AM »

He commissioned the Transfăgărășan, so FF.

But really, though. Obvious HP is obvious.

Is there something that particularly endears you to the second-highest road in Romania?
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« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2015, 05:15:34 AM »

Oh yeah!, Top Gear did that.  Very nice road.
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Is there something that particularly endears you to the second-highest road in Romania?

I'll have it at 68F, slight breeze, puffy coulds, in, say, a 911 Carrera Cabriolet, dark green.  Uphill, no traffic of course, maybe a few other lesser drivers (so I can pass them).  Make 'em my friends so I can give them sh**t later thankyouverymuch

I'd probably rather do the Nurburgring, but this would be a lot of fun too.
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« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2015, 08:30:06 AM »

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« Reply #7 on: November 06, 2015, 01:11:02 PM »

I'm guessing that Top Gear explains the interest. I mean, it's an interesting-looking road that I presume a capable driver in a fast car would enjoy very much (i.e., not me-- I'd just drive very slowly).

At least Ceauseșcu was interesting, with his neo-medieval pageant plays, status-craving fake scientist wife, and insane building project(s). It was all very theatrical-- I once saw a documentary, "The King of Communism", whose main theme was more or less that aspect. A brutal, totalitarian dictatorship is a truly horrible thing to endure, but it's even worse if the only thing one can say about it is that it was a brutal totalitarian dictatorship, and nothing else (think Eritrea).

Of course, none of this changes the fact that he was a HP, of course.
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« Reply #8 on: November 06, 2015, 03:16:38 PM »

He was the Genius of the Carpathians. FF for title alone.
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« Reply #9 on: November 06, 2015, 04:27:39 PM »

Massive HP.

But oh, what a great movie that would make. Almost never do HPs on his level get the poetic justice that he got.
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« Reply #10 on: November 06, 2015, 06:42:26 PM »

He actually was seen as a freedom fighter of sorts by Romanians and in the west in the late 60's and parts of the 1970's. He was a true Romanian nationalist and stocked nationalism within the Communist ideological boundaries. He was applauded as a type of 'good Communist' for opposing the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 as well.
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« Reply #11 on: November 06, 2015, 06:52:17 PM »

Massive HP and human trash.
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« Reply #12 on: November 06, 2015, 09:28:27 PM »

Don't know jack about him, but as far as dictators go, he at least sounds like an interesting one with his weird personality cult schtick and all.
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