How Larry Hagman Saved Romania from Communism | |
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Phennommennonn Forum Administrator 11/24/2012 05:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | How Larry Hagman Saved Romania from Communism Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27633347 [link to reason.com] Hagman's greatest impact ultimately wasn’t in these United States but in communist Romania, where it helped topple the brutal Ceausescu regime. Dallas was the last Western show allowed during the nightmarish 1980s because President Nicolae Ceausescu thought it showcased all that was wrong with capitalism. In fact, the show provided a luxuriant alternative to a communism that was forcing people to wait more than a decade to buy the most rattletrap communist-produced cars. “I think we were directly or indirectly responsible for the fall of the [communism],” Larry Hagman told the Associated Press a decade ago. “They would see the wealthy Ewings and say, ‘Hey, we don’t have all this stuff.’" After the dictator and his wife were shot on Christmas Eve 1989, the pilot episode of Dallas—with a previously censored sex scene spliced back in—was one of the first foreign shows broadcast on liberated Romanian TV. ^^^^^ demoralization dude. part of the communist script. demoralize desensitize demobilize getta fkn clue commiewood actors are fuckin tools for the NWO political correctness is a doctrine.... fostered by a delusional, illogical minority...... and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media; which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. |