In Iran

Mik

Romania is largely remembered more than the other former Warsaw Pact states because of the fate of the Ceausecus. .

Renauda

@Mik

Ceausescu and his wife earned every grain of that lead poisoning at the wall.

Mik

They certainly did. A most fitting end for the likes of them.

taiwan_girl

WHen Premier Ceaușescu gets booed from stage. The look on his face is "Oops - what is happen here??!!"

Link to video

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

Gladwell talks about the fall of Ceausescu in "The Tipping Point."

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

Mik

Back on topic, it would be good if the Iranian people were there.

Mik

Now the oil workers are joining in, threatening to destroy what they built.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/oil-workers-join-iran-protests-we-ll-destroy-everything-we-built/ar-AA12PRzN?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=a74a47b5a5d34ffebbc2c9b6b84857a8

taiwan_girl

@George-K said in In Iran:

Gladwell talks about the fall of Ceausescu in "The Tipping Point."

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

That looks like an interesting book

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

@taiwan_girl it is. It's been years since I read it, so only a couple of anecdotes stick out in my memory, this being one of them.

It's very much "pop psychology" stuff, like much of his other stuff. Entertaining, nevertheless.

Renauda

Watched a news report on the Iran revolt this am that discussed at some length a state militia called Basij. They are they ones cracking protesters’ heads and other despicable criminal acts against dissenters.

Especially nasty bunch of fanatics:

https://www.voanews.com/amp/iran-s-basij-force-specialists-in-cracking-down-on-dissent-/6759796.html

Mik

Iran has a citizenry that is very angry with their government and very tired of their repression. I think the mullahs never really stamped out the westernization of the country. I really hope this rids the country of these medieval bastards in power.