Revolution Square
Historic square where a dictator's final speech turned to jeers, with a memorial to revolution victims.
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This guide to Revolution Square in Bucharest centres on the morning of December twenty-first, nineteen eighty-nine, when Nicolae Ceaușescu stepped onto a low balcony above a crowd assembled to applaud him. It touches on the uprising in Timișoara, the promises he brought with him, and the live television cameras pointed at the balcony. Best heard standing in the square, facing the former Communist Party headquarters.
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