http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C5%9Fescu
Joanna
Chris Doss wrote:
> I suspect this is going to be self-congratulatory
> myth-making about how heroic RFE fought against teh
> forces of Communist evil.
>
> Joanna, what was Ceauescu's background? How did he get
> to this position?
>
> --- Colin Brace <cb at lim.nl> wrote:
>
>
>> Romanian dictator Nicolai Ceauescu had many enemies,
>> but the one he feared
>> the most was invisible and untouchable - Radio Free
>> Europe. So paranoid was
>> he about its potential to encourage dissent, he even
>> went as far as trying
>> to hire infamous assassin Carlos the Jackal to help
>> close it down.
>>
>> DJ's, listeners, secret policemen, terrorists –
>> all share their stories in
>> this film about a Europe that no longer exists in
>> which the only thing that
>> could travel freely was a simple, subversive radio
>> wave.
>>
>> Followed by Q&A with director Alexandru Solomon and
>> journalists from Radio
>> Free Europe.
>>
>> http://www.pocketvisions.co.uk/lidf/?p=117
>> --
>> Colin Brace
>> Amsterdam
>> http://lim.nl
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