Architecture during Ceausescu’s rule revolved around
demolition and rebuilding, rather than renovation.
Alcohol – No information found.
Power/Electricity – Electricity was rationed, so that more
power could be supplied to large industry. Families had an allowance on 20kwh
per month, and anything over that usage was taxed in exorbitant amounts. Blackouts
occurred daily for sometimes 1 or 2 hours a day.
Doctor/Girl Student:
Helicopters were used for
surveillance and also, Ceausescu fled via helicopter.
Helicopters did, in fact, drop
pamphlets on the crowds asking them not to fall for diversions from the
government, instead urging them to “go home and enjoy the Christmas feast”
Student 1 & 2:
Here are the lyrics for “Wake Up,
Romanian.”
Wake up, Romanian from the sleep
of death,
You've been sunken in by the
barbarian tyrants!
Now or never, it's time to sew
yourself a destiny,
All your enemies should adore!
Now or never, we have to
demonstrate the world
that in our hands still flows Romanian
blood
and we keep proudly one name in
our breasts,
the glorious name of Traian!
Marvelous shadows, Mihai, Stefan,
Corvine,
look at your successors - the Romanian
nation!
With armed arms, with your fire
in their veins,
they all shout: "Living in
freedom, or death!".
Priests with the crucifix on
their foreheads
a Christian army,
The motto is freedom and its aim
is sacred.
We rather fall in fight, with
unflawed glory
Than being slaves again on our
own ancient place.
People infiltrated the People’s
Palace and tossed propaganda books out of the windows, so this is historically
accurate.
Girl Student:
A makeshift armband was often the
only mark of allegiance to the revolution.
Securitate:
Poisoned water was part of the
widespread paranoia following the instability caused by the Revolution.
Ceausescu instituted an austerity
program in 1981 in order to help Romania pay off its national debt. As a result
of this program, many basic needs such as heating, gas and food were rationed.
My interpretation is that milk was one of the rationed items, and the champagne
is purely celebratory.
Student 1:
It is a chant, closer to how it would
sound in Spanish: Olé! In Spanish, it is considered a celebratory cheer.
Painter:
December 22 – Probably confrontations
between revolutionaries and Ceausescu supporters. I can find no indication of
terrorism.
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