On this day 40 years ago a coup attempt by General Nicolae Militaru against Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu failed because the soldiers who were supposed to carry out the plan were sent to harvest corn

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by OsarmaBeanLatin

14 comments

  1. > A Securitate plot to depose Ceaușescu existed in the early 1980s, and he is known to have joined in 1984, adding an Army dimension.[7] Following the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985, Militaru requested the Soviet leader’s backing for an anti-Ceaușescu coup d’état; this was rejected.[8]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Militaru

  2. “So mister Militaru, what kind of work do you do?”

    “You’re not gonna believe this.”

  3. Outstanding move, absolute gigabrain intellect on Ceausescu

  4. A piece of shit like the rest of the communists. He was just another murderer, his allegience was not with Ceausescu but the GRU/KGB.

  7. And I would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for your meddling corn!

  10. This guy’s affiliation to the KGB were found out by a counter information officer, named Gheorghe Trosca. That officer was at the time of the revolution in ’89 a counter terrorist colonel and was sent to the defense ministry building on a mission on the 24th. There, in the office, was Militaru, now the interim Defense Minister or something like that, who gave the orders for Trosca and his squad of 8 to come. As soon as they arrived, heavy guns opened fire on the group. Trosca was beheaded, his head put up on the fence of the ministry, with a cigarette in his mouth, their bodies desecrated and left there, in the streets. Militaru died at the age of 71, in 1996. I think this whole story is enough to tell everything there is to know about the Revolution in ’89.

  11. ok but like, I love the fact that there’s an alternate reality where a guy names militaru is a military dictator

  14. Oh look – thats the old pic of Winter Soldier. He is real after all!

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