'Dictator tourism' opens in Romania

Romania is now turning to tourism for financial answers, but some of its initiatives are proving controversial among locals.

The government has opened some areas relevant to former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's life and trial to tourism.

Al Jazeera's Simon McGregor-Wood reports from Bucharest.

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[schmoukiz]

It's a stupid idea, there are so many things more interesting to see in Romania than Chauchesku's home. Try the castles of Vlad the Impaler or of Queen Mary, the painted churches, the medieval German cities, the Carpathians or the Danube delta.

They should rather promote the memorial for the hundreds of thousands of people killed during communism, not a stupid dictator.

[ImperialGuard9001]

A communist admirator of Ceaușescu defending private property!?

[paulhojda]

@TheD3JANO who cares about religion...

[hyperrion1990]

@ImperialGuard9001 even worse, it was his nephew. :))

[hyperrion1990]

@schmoukiz Hail to that. And they don't even need to make a communism museum in Romania. The whole Romania is a fucking communism museum: poor people, corruption, filthy mentality, ugliness,bad justice, communist blocks every-fucking-where

[TheD3JANO]

serbia and romania orthodox brothers forever

[schmoukiz]

@Gyozomroka :) In contemporary terms maybe he was. For the middle ages he was a regular ruler, exerting the typical powers of an autocrat with some disputes with local nobility. Remember, it was way before Magna Carta or any parliament. As for his violent acts, they were real an meant to set an example to the masses. But it was in an age where in the West people were boiled in oil, burnt alive, skinned or beheaded. In the same age, a Hungarian countess bathed in virgin blood to maintain beauty.

[io007a]

@shadowq2 the unemployment figure it's false i agree with that it's like 25% not 70% but wtf spain has 30% real unemployment greece has 25% real unemployments so things are bad for a lot of countries in EU ,about gypsies there a tiny minority in ROmania but the intresting part they seem to be very numerous because they move a lot go to the gypsies houses and you will find out that they are abroad so we think they're here but they're not they move from country to country.

[Gyozomroka]

@schmoukiz Because Vlad the Impaler wasn't a dictator? And a brutal one at that

[OrphanPaper]

@invisibleisolation read it again you may develop and idea , the Qantas head did act to cause the greats harm to the company and the people is was payed to serve its passengers , he could have stop selling tickets and ensured all people who had a ticket was delivered to there destinations but he acted to cause the most harm and disruption , who is he working for , not Qantas or the people who pay for the company the passengers like a lot of sociopaths they are there to serve his whims ,

[hoosierhiver]

The statue looks like Assad