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Post by swl on Mar 28, 2009 21:35:02 GMT
Missed the start (I take it you & Gothboy gave up on the footie in disgust). I'll catch it on iPlayer later.
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Post by riotgrrl on Mar 28, 2009 21:38:27 GMT
Missed the start (I take it you & Gothboy gave up on the footie in disgust). I'll catch it on iPlayer later. Came home from the pub at half time SWL.
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Post by Patrick on Mar 28, 2009 23:04:51 GMT
I'm sure they sanitized the footage we got on the news back then. It sounds stupid to suggest it - seeing as I remember the papers being full of the Ceauşescu's Deaths - but I don't remember the video footage of the makeshift trial and the footage that was shown tonight - they interviewed the army chap who organised the shooting. This prog was the slightly less fluffy one of the lot. I think that's just down to the Man and Woman that they were! There was an interview with his daughter too - sounds like she didn't think much of Daddy either! (Spying on her and her boyfriends etc)
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Post by swl on Mar 28, 2009 23:36:42 GMT
Oh FFS. It's "Not Available" on BBC iPlayer. What's the point of that then?
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Post by Patrick on Mar 28, 2009 23:58:44 GMT
Oh FFS. It's "Not Available" on BBC iPlayer. What's the point of that then? Now that's odd - 'cos at the end of the programme they said "All three programmes in the series are available on BBC iPlayer" Technical problems?
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Post by Flatypus on Mar 29, 2009 5:15:19 GMT
Did Romania really cease to be 'Communist' (which I regard stands identically to Marxist workers' liberation as 'Feminist' to sexual equality and women's liberation, accounting for so much confusion and bitterness), or was there just a coup allowing one strand more open to private enterprise (and the Churches) to take over from another? We see these societies from outside but in Marxist theory they were nowhere near fit to develop the Socialist Phase, let alone the Communist. In fact Marx pretty much ignored them in his absolutely conservative for his time obsession with West European history.
Remove the labels and see them as they are, and it reminds me of somebody here telling me that the Roman Church was a great liberal force under British rule, but once the British left, the people did not feel comfortable faced with responsibility for themselves and the government consisted of men who'd made their way as gangsters and guerillas, so the Church replaced the British as a more Authoritarian Power than it had ever been that for the most part people wanted. I don't know about Romania where the Orthodox and Roman are at war trying to out-build each other in monasteries, but it certainly looks that way in Poland losing many of the social freedoms Communism allowed while gaining doubtful ones of economic exploitation.
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Post by swl on Mar 29, 2009 13:51:18 GMT
Still not on iPlayer. Useless firkers.
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Post by jean on Mar 29, 2009 19:06:12 GMT
After the one on Czechoslovakia they said it would not be on the iPlayer because of copyright problems with archive material.
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Post by swl on Mar 29, 2009 19:17:52 GMT
So, in order to watch a tellyvisual programme, you have to arrange in advance to be in the same room as a tellyvision at the right time and tuned to the correct frequency?
How archaic.
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Post by Patrick on Mar 29, 2009 21:24:00 GMT
After the one on Czechoslovakia they said it would not be on the iPlayer because of copyright problems with archive material. Thank you kindly - I sit corrected
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