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Ceausescu literally did nothing wrong

>The distinction between Gypsies and non-Gypsies has been particularly apparent in the treatment of the children in those state institutions; theirs is perhaps the most tragic aspect of the Romani situation in Romania. While news of the existence of extraordinarily large numbers of children in Romanian orphanages began to reach the West in 1990, the fact that most of them are Gypsies was not generally known. Although Romani Romanians constitute only between 10% and 20% of the national population, they make up as much as 80% of the children in many of these homes.

>The Gypsy children in the Romanian orphanages are the result of Nicolae Ceausescu's plan to create a superior "Dacian" people by selective breeding and population engineering. Ceausescu's fascination with Hitler's racial policies is no secret; "In the early 1970s, when Ceausescu learned that Romania had over 600,000 emigrés abroad, he became very interested in Hitler's Fifth Column. That was not too surprising, as Ceausescu had always studied Hitler's 'charisma,' and had repeatedly analyzed the original German films of Hitler's speeches ... In almost every speech, he recalls the Romanian people's origins in proud Roman and Dacian warriors, just as Hitler harped on the Aryans..."

>Because Ceausescu concealed his actions, however, there some documentation to substantiate the claims have so far come to light, the means by which he tried to accomplish his aims are only now being pieced together. The establishment of his romani gypsy "death camp" orphanages apparently pre-dated his open fascination with Hitler by some years: