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sandensea

(21,600 posts)
12. Good question.
Sun Dec 27, 2020, 02:11 PM
Dec 2020

They literally had to flee Bucharest for their lives without so much as a change of clothes: they were wearing the same outfits they did at that famous speech where agents (of unknown origin) began firing into the crowd - so we know they had no time to take anything with them.

Since most of the following regimes were just as larcenous as they were (if not more), it's safe to assume that post-Ceaucescu officials probably absconded with any valuables the couple left behind.

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