Re: Ceaucescu and Romanian transition

[joanna bujes <jbujes@xxxxxxxxx>]

Agreed.

Joanna

dmschanoes wrote:

> Really?  I don't think so.  I think it has nothing at all to do with
> experience and/or capability, and everything to do with connections and
> representing specific class interests.  Revolutions, and reactions, have
> little enough trouble creating "leaders" without official experience.
>
> Where former communist leaders are in power, it is the result of their
> experience, not in managing an economy or running a country, but in
> administering the impulse to capitalist restoration.
>
> dms
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Doss" <nomorebounces@xxxxxxx>
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> > I don't know about the Romanian situation in particular, but one reason
> why former "Communist" leaders are in power thruought EE is that they are
> the only ones with experience in actually running a country.