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Pushing Back the Curtain

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The last of the series in which Misha Glenny talks to decision makers and ordinary people about the collapse of Communism in eastern Europe ten years ago. Romania, December 1989 - Blood on the Barricades. The overthrow of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was the last revolution of 1989 and the bloodiest. The tyrant was shot, but were the citizens on the barricades duped by a sinister Communist cabal?
Producers Maria Balinska , Rosie Goldsmith and Tim Whewell

Contributors

Talks:
Misha Glenny
Unknown:
Nicolae Ceausescu
Producers:
Maria Balinska
Producers:
Rosie Goldsmith
Producers:
Tim Whewell
Source: Radio Times

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