Was he really a bad guy?

Yes, he was. Living in communist Romania was complete and utter shit unless you knew somebody in the government.

>>447628
>natsionalist communism

Literally the most retarded shit ever.

>>447628
He got shot by a firing platoon, guess that counts for something.

>>447628
4 u

He started off really strong (denouncing the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, improving relations with the West, improving press freedom and civil liberities, etc.), then fucked it up royally after visiting China and North Korea and trying to export their ideologies to Romania from 1971 onwards. I once heard someone here call Mao Zedong "The George Lucas of history", but I feel like that's a title better reserved for Ceausescu.

>>447997
How would that make either of them George Lucas.

>>448249
It's a reddit meme. The guy you're responding to is a redditor and he heard some other jerk off on reddit say that.

>>447628
He looks a lot like Ted Cruz. The fuck?

>>447664
So like Romania know but Communist?

>>448483
Yes.