nicolae

The show trial and execution of Nicolae Ceaușescu is an example that springs to mind immediately.

Your comment reminds me of Nicolae Ceaușescu, the brutal dictator of Romania between 1967 and 1989.

Maybe Nicolae Ceaușescu, executed less than three weeks earlier, was in the back of their minds.

I guess the counterpoint to that might be the events surrounding the downfall of Nicolae Ceaușescu.

A reminder, Nicolae Ceaușescu had a 90+% approval rating just a week before he was put on trial and deleted in less than a day.

Have you watched the final moments of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu?

The execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu stabilized Romania.

People with power almost invariably attended a history class or two sometime in their lives, and remember what can happen to the Marie Antoinette's and Nicolae Ceaușescu's of this world.

If you can't tell the difference between what happened to Nicolae Ceaușescu and what happened to Fred Hampton I'm not sure what planet you're living on.

--- Nicolae Ceaușescu had an impressive surveillance state...

After the fall of Nicolae Ceaușescu in Romania, it was discovered that there were terrifying orphanages full of kids who had had almost no human contact for years and were in bad shape as a result.

She would definitely consider herself a right wing candidate, and has even tried before the election to convince multiple right-wing parties to form an electoral alliance and run a single candidate (presumably either herself or the president of the National Liberal Party, the largest right wing party in Romania, Nicolae Ciucă).

Tell that to Nicolae and Elena Ceaucescu, Saddam Hussain, Muammar Gaddafi, and all those other tinpot nobjockeys who thought their money and influence would save them from "nice" people.

"Nepotism, corruption and waste of resources are well established even in non left wing countries." True, and the problem gets worse with concentration of power in just a few hands; the absolute extreme is reached if all the power is concentrated in one person, or two (Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu come to mind, or Stalin).

As for the "flawed methodology": 66.2% of Romanians regret Nicolae Ceausescu in a study..."commissioned by the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile" - I'd say if the "institute" of bad-mouthing communism had to admit that number...

Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu remain the last people ever executed in Romania.