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| Original Title: | Red Horizons: The True Story of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu's Crimes, Lifestyle, and Corruption |
| ISBN: | 0895267462 (ISBN13: 9780895267467) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Nicolae Ceauşescu, Elena Ceauşescu |
Ion Mihai Pacepa
Paperback | Pages: 316 pages Rating: 3.91 | 470 Users | 32 Reviews
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| Title | : | Red Horizons: The True Story of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescus' Crimes, Lifestyle, and Corruption |
| Author | : | Ion Mihai Pacepa |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 316 pages |
| Published | : | April 15th 1990 by Regnery History (first published 1987) |
| Categories | : | History. Nonfiction. Biography. Politics. Cultural. Romania |
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This book is painful read for numerous reasons. Romania under Communism was no less tragic than Romania under Fascism. One ventures into such subject matter knowing ahead of time that the information is going to be unpleasant. But the book doesn’t delve deeply into the real miseries caused. Instead, the Ceauşescu s are paraded out on nearly every page like grotesque marionettes, Pacepa the simple and nearly silent recorder of their excesses and venality. That they were vain and megalomaniacal, I have no doubt. But Nicolae Ceauşescu rose to power and kept it for numerous years. He couldn't have done so without a measure of intelligence and political savvy or without being propped up by collaborators.In holding the positions he purports to have had, Pacepa must have done his share of the type of fawning he describes his colleagues doing. As head of the DIE, his hands had to have gotten dirty accomplishing the deeds Ceausescu demanded. I expected deeper revelations of the actual oppression (prison conditions, numbers executed, etc.) more than the embarrassing antics of Elena and her son Nicu.
Lastly, though there are numerous references to Jews, Germans, and Hungarians in Romania and Ceausescu's dislike and exploitation of them, I find it telling that there is only one passing reference to Gypsies, and that in the form of an adjective where a government official is describes as "a Gypsy looking fellow." For a country housing the largest Gypsy populations in the world, this is startling.
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Ratings: 3.91 From 470 Users | 32 ReviewsArticle Epithetical Books Red Horizons: The True Story of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescus' Crimes, Lifestyle, and Corruption
A story about vicious men in control of a big corporation. Anything as long as it makes money. Yet people with much less style than the mafiosi of Henry Hill. Still, the much interesting read are the comments, the petty people hurt by the imagined pain felt by their idol. A study about the virtual relationship between perfectly unremarkable people and a picture on the wall would be a far more interesting story. It would explain from the love of an invisible god to the veneration of a disgustingLearned absolutely NOTHING! Except, of course, that anyone can publish a book! One of only a few books that I will not finish. I CANNOT find anything on Roumania.Pitched it!
Joco and Reni lived in our condo for six years and gave us this book. Joco grew up under the Ceausescu dictatorship in Romania and at the time of the revolt in 1989, he was 14 years old. While this book may not be of interest to most readers, although it is both fascinating and horrible, I read it in honor of many of our Hungarian friends of Romanian descent.
Every Romanian should read this book in order to find out more about the crimes that Nicolae Ceausescu committed and the great fortune that he gathered while the Romanians where queuing to buy a slice of bread..
O lectură fascinantă, în care generalul Pacepa, fugit în SUA, dezvăluie ceea ce devenise principala pasiune a lui Ceaușescu: spionajul industrial, prin intermediul DIE (SIE de astăzi).Pe decursul paginilor descoperim legăturile României cu țări din lumea a treia, dar și relațiile lui Ceaușescu cu personaje precum Yasser Arafat, liderul OEP-ului de atunci, Josip Tito, dictatorul Iugoslaviei, sau Muammar Gaddafi, dictatorul Libiei.Dacă e să-l credem pe Pacepa, așa-zisa deschidere către Occident a
"Cînd a plecat, Ceausescu s-a aşezat ca de obicei pe scaunul din faţă al Mercedesului său, forţîndu-ne pe Avram si pe mine să ne înghesuim pe scaunele din spate cu Elena. Era euforic. Ce cîntăreste mai mult, Avrame, un kilogram de aur sau un kilogram de mostre ? a întrebat Ceausescu. Un kilogram din creierul dumneavoastră, tovarăşe Ceausescu, a replicat cu promtitudine Avram. Nu eşti atît de prost pe cît pari, Avrame, a ciripit Elena. De ce nu eşti mai înalt şi mai slab ? Dacă as putea scrie
All his books are written as articles for tabloids - everything has to be shocking, and bombastic.No detailed and sincere data like in the books of Mitrokhin or Gordievski.There is so much inexactness in the data that is available for anyone, that I cannot trust his "secrets" .He presents himself very detached from Ceausescu and the others. I wonder how he could work for such a detestable regime for so long until he decided to switch sides.He does not say, and his motivations for deserting the
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