all right here we are in beautiful brush off and hopefully preparing an interesting Vlog
for you today first things first shout out to Luca always busy always a lineup at Luca
now on our Channel as you guys know we don't do political stuff we are certainly not in
the business of telling you how you ought to live I say be free do what you like but we are
going to do a historical Vlog here today about the politics here in Romania and how this very
interesting uh history maybe is manifesting itself today in what we've noticed about Romanians in our
many months of traveling here so this Vlog is about the history of the Communist Regime in
Romania and how we've grown to really love and admire the Romanian fighting Spirits yeah and
all of the different ways that potentially this uh history is manifesting itself today
while still maintaining do what you like it's not political what do I know I look like I'm
hosting a a fishing and hunting television channel right now so what do I know but uh
we are going to start our Vlog at a place we've showed you before which is the bullet holes in the
side of the building here and a quick refresher would be the early 90s actually 1989 the late
80s the Communist Regime was losing support like crazy and people were protesting in many
different cities including right here on bashav and so you can imagine this area right here being
full of protesters being full of Romanian people who had simply had enough and were willing to
fight against the regime at which point the government fell back to the building just
around the corner and began shooting bullets into the crowd and some of those bullets ended
up in the wall right here so it says in Memoria revolutionid in December 1989 my translation
would be in memory of the Revolution December 1989. and so this was uh pretty indefensible
action by the government you can imagine peaceful protesters sort of doing a thing and bullets being
unloaded upon them this is something that it's not acceptable obviously yeah and so let's keep
this sort of event in our minds as we journey to our next destination and begin to uncover
more of the Romanian Communist Regime history the fight to Freedom fight the freedom let's go
thank you and so here we are at the Communist Museum I think you can tell by the graffiti on the
former communist leader Joe cesco I think you can tell by the graffiti on his face this is not going
to be the good parts of Communism this is going to be the not so favorable parts let's check it out
all right first Museum I've been to where you are encouraged to pick stuff up and look at it
I really was concerned that the lady at the front was playing a trick on me because one thing I've
learned is romanian's humor is a little bit different than most of the countries I've
been to but in fact you are encouraged to sit on the chairs if you'd like or maybe open the
drawers of the cabinets you're even encouraged to take these plaques off the wall and go read them
with your friend and so one of the proof of the fact that Romanian sense
of humor is different is all of these jokes that are written on the wall
um this particular joke is alluding to how uneducated the chachescos were
with of course the chauces being the dictator and his family uh it's not every day you see this sort
of stuff in a museum and one thing I've really grown to appreciate from Romanians is the lack of
sensitivity the way the information is presented here I believe what they're trying to say is
because the 80s were so difficult and the shelves on the grocery store were more and more empty
uh the Romanian people use these jokes as a way to sort of overcome and they really developed a
uh insensitivity to words now as a YouTuber I'm always doing these blah blah to the camera
and sometimes I just get it wrong I'm releasing like an hour a week or more of me talking and
going to new places and so I've grown to love Romanians because when I get it wrong they're
not offended so many countries I've been to people think words are very almost like
violence where I think because the 80s were so difficult for Romanians and they were able to
overcome they sort of know what suffering is and they don't think words are the source of suffering
in fact the entire front section of the museum is a sort of dark and twisted joke about how in 1977
there was an earthquake that killed 1500 people and the entire front section of the museum is sort
of saying if you think the earthquake was shaky you should have seen our government in the 80s
which is sort of a funny joke but it's not every day you see people sort of poking fun at their own
uh earthquake that killed 1500 people this natural disaster so in this Museum you've got lots of good
information lots of good day-to-day sort of home life about what it was like in the 80s
trying to overcome this uh lying dictator who had increasingly empty shelves in the grocery store
um I didn't realize that bershoff was actually called Stalin City
so I learned that and it was nice to see some evidence as to why Romanians have this Spirit
of not being sensitive to words because it's really nice for a YouTuber to be around people who
are just not sensitive to words and it seems like the reason is because Romanians actually
no real suffering I mean it's only 40 years ago in the 80s and they've really overcome this
tremendous thing now next we're going to go to the actual place where Jessica was shot and executed
because he was found guilty of a bunch of thing so let's go there and finish up the blog
what a great museum really really five-star Museum
all right so we've left brush off and we are now in a small City I believe
pronounced Target we've just walked through this Museum which has one room that shows you
where caucesco and his wife were waiting and sleeping as they were waiting for their trial
really simple room with not much to look at sort of makes you wonder what was
going through ciao Jessica's head and his wife's head as they were waiting for trial
were they certain they would be found innocent or were they nervous or sort of an amazing place to
stand and then you can go see the actual trial room where they were found guilty and again a
very simple room with some wooden tables and some little placards showing you who was sitting where
and after they were found guilty within a few days of the verdict that just goes were brought here
stood in front of this wall and executed and in true Romanian fashion they were executed on
Christmas Day and so we've heard so many Romanians joking around about what a gift we were given that
year best Christmas ever and so as far as tourism goes Ivana and I like doing stuff like this it's
very interesting for us to see these type of things when we travel although we're usually
nervous to make a video about it because it's heavy stuff you have to think the 80s was not
that long ago right I'm 30 years old my parents would have been adults living through this all
right the way they raised me would have somehow been different had they been through this thing
where increasingly in the 80s the the grocery stores are empty and then you get the protests and
then you get people shooting guns into people's peaceful protest and then finally it ends with
uh chachesco being shot and his wife on Christmas Day so we're usually nervous to make videos like
this because a lot of people are always offended by something right this is why we chose Romania
because we're feeling confident people in Romania have these jokes about anything they're not
offended by words so in the end we really wanted to show you guys this because we've had such a
good experience traveling Romania yeah we like Romania so we also like to learn the history
this is what makes Romania what it is today absolutely right and we love the people as
well in Romania so this also shaped the way how the country is right now economically the people
the culture everything this is an important part of the history so we want to learn about it more
exactly right we sort of showed up in Romania and we immediately really were taken aback by the
people always joking around always friendly joking at their own expense also joking once they got to
know us joking with us in a way that was like very yeah and we thought this is very interesting and
so it's interesting to see how that sort of came to be to tie-in the people the present people with
the past history and to imagine that a lot of the people we have met in Romania have gone through
this hardship absolutely it's only the 80s it's not that long ago it's not that long ago so um
now we understand more why Romanian people are the way they are they are brave they are strong they
love freedom so this is why absolutely right Ivana that was a good message to end on the the Romanian
Spirit the fighting Spirit of the uh Romanians because as you can see a very unceremonious end
to the chachesco Rain and yet the Romanian Spirit endures
so there you have it guys uh we didn't exactly have a reason to come here it's not exactly near
anything oh yeah we just sort of drove here just to see this you can go stand in the room watch out
Jessica and his wife are on trial it's like the most unceremonious non-official to imagine that
Joe cesco built the biggest building in the world in Bucharest so Grand and his final experience was
so not Grand that's true uh wow really goes to show you what it was like in communist
Romania all right there you have it guys thanks for watching our video just a simple
one today but we wanted to tie in some history with the amazing Romanian people
we've come to love in uh that's right this fantastic country all right later