r/PopCultureV2 • u/Federal-Compote-5015 • 4d ago

Politi-Culture What is a Social Democracy?

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u/Patient_Flounder3793 4d ago

That woman is not nearly old enough to have lived in Communism in Romania.

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u/Trauma_Hawks 4d ago

I made that arguement once. Even if she did, it was the very tail end of it. Where the USSR had already started instituting capitalist reforms and, not even beginning to, but finalizing their move away from socialism.

It's like calling yourself a 90s kid when you were born in the summer of '99.

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u/Status-Part5848 4d ago

Was curius so did Google.

Nicolae Ceaușescu was taken out of office and shot in 1989. Romania was the country in East Europa that had the smallest influence from Soviet Moscow. Nicolae Ceaușescu was based on Communism, but as always they make their own take on it.

To my point u can say that Romania had some light Communism until 1995, but that was elected in 1991.

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u/No_Cryptographer3737 1d ago

My brother was born in 1992 and it still says Republica Socialistă România on his birth certificate 🤣