Nobody is really talking about this but by fighting this revolution you guys brought democracy to us in Slovenia. Our apparatchiks got scared shitless they might end up like Ceausescu so they suddenly became all for democratic changes and political pluralism.
Blue-jeans in Romania in 1989? Means that he had some “relations”..
soon we will need more like him
The man pictured is fighting in the 1989 Romanian revolution if that helps.I do not know a whole lot about AK’s and was curious what this rifle is, and how feasible it’d be to build a looklike.
Thnk you for differentiating between a PSL and a Dargunov..
It’s funny how this picture is considered “historical”, you can tell it’s staged:
– that’s not an AK47, which was the most popular used by the army
– the soldier in the back just stays casually there while the “hero” is “fighting” some bad guys?
– he is pointing the gun to a building which completely burned down days before (see the water on the ground? It didnt rain, it’s because the firefighters battled the fire)
Yes, I was there.
Definitely not a secret police agent
These guys were literal heroes. Huge respect to them, and the ones who fell.
Oh look, it’s Steve Rogers!
Why is this type of content allowed on this subreddit, but anything related to Yugoslavian conflict is getting instantly deleted?
We should have done the same in belarus
Based, nice pic
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Chad
Powerful
Absolute hero.
what are those shoes hes rocking?
Russia and Belarus need this desperately right now.
Death to communism
“wE nEveR tRieD rEaL coMmuNiSm”
Based.
Can’t wait to see the Ukrainian remake in 2022
That guy seems to know what he is doing
Nobody quite rocks a PSL like the Romanians themselves.
Like this absolute chad making ceaucescu suffer.
I’m Romanian.
I directly participated in the events as they exploded in Timisoara, as a child (there were many like me).
There is plenty of confusion and attempts to manipulate this popular revolt. Please, allow me to explain what “anti-communism” means in the ’89 context.
– this was a mass popular revolt, that even included ethnic solidarity, Romanians stood with a Hungarian pastor against the regime
– the revolt was largely against totalitarian rule, against abject poverty, against the police state, and for what we deemed as “Freedom”, i.e. what we perceived to be Occidental values – freedom of expression, including for most controversial opinions, freedom of assembly, freedom of movement etc.
Hint: we were deeply naive.
– this was NOT a pro-capitalism revolt – in fact, capitalism as it arrived was disastrous and perceived as such by the population (in average), which resulted in a wave of pro-Ceausescu nostalgia that is enduring (mostly because of less inequality, of the economic kind).
Each time I see these pictures posted, I understand why. Today, we see an attempt to link progressivism with communism. I think this is misguided, our communism was National Communism (look it up) and was infused in patriotism, nationalism and social conservatism – minus religion – as we were a secular state.
This was NOT a progressive uprising either. At most anti-totalitarian.
It was a proletarian, patriotic, nationalistic uprising against a failed elite regime that presented as “communist”, but manifested as Corruption and Stealing.
Love
A hero to his people, and a proud example of fight against tyranny. We need more people like him in our world.
Something seems off to me in this picture….it is either staged or perhaps this person works for the government. That or im wrong
He most likely was a Securitate, the secret police, officer
Based
Anyone know what his rifle is? It looks a lot like an ak47 but the barrel is to long
We should always remember democracies aren’t always born peacefully.
Protests alone fail. Democratic activists will be crushed if they cannot make oppression hard. The main narrative entirely forgets that the Iron Curtain didn’t fall without risk. Folks had to fight and die to push the military off.
Lets hope he carved a lot of notches on his barrel c:
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Nobody is really talking about this but by fighting this revolution you guys brought democracy to us in Slovenia. Our apparatchiks got scared shitless they might end up like Ceausescu so they suddenly became all for democratic changes and political pluralism.
Blue-jeans in Romania in 1989? Means that he had some “relations”..
soon we will need more like him
The man pictured is fighting in the 1989 Romanian revolution if that helps.I do not know a whole lot about AK’s and was curious what this rifle is, and how feasible it’d be to build a looklike.
Thnk you for differentiating between a PSL and a Dargunov..
It’s funny how this picture is considered “historical”, you can tell it’s staged:
– that’s not an AK47, which was the most popular used by the army
– the soldier in the back just stays casually there while the “hero” is “fighting” some bad guys?
– he is pointing the gun to a building which completely burned down days before (see the water on the ground? It didnt rain, it’s because the firefighters battled the fire)
Yes, I was there.
Definitely not a secret police agent
These guys were literal heroes. Huge respect to them, and the ones who fell.
Oh look, it’s Steve Rogers!
Why is this type of content allowed on this subreddit, but anything related to Yugoslavian conflict is getting instantly deleted?
We should have done the same in belarus
Based, nice pic
[removed]
Chad
Powerful
Absolute hero.
what are those shoes hes rocking?
Russia and Belarus need this desperately right now.
Death to communism
“wE nEveR tRieD rEaL coMmuNiSm”
Based.
Can’t wait to see the Ukrainian remake in 2022
That guy seems to know what he is doing
Nobody quite rocks a PSL like the Romanians themselves.
Like this absolute chad making ceaucescu suffer.
I’m Romanian.
I directly participated in the events as they exploded in Timisoara, as a child (there were many like me).
There is plenty of confusion and attempts to manipulate this popular revolt. Please, allow me to explain what “anti-communism” means in the ’89 context.
– this was a mass popular revolt, that even included ethnic solidarity, Romanians stood with a Hungarian pastor against the regime
– the revolt was largely against totalitarian rule, against abject poverty, against the police state, and for what we deemed as “Freedom”, i.e. what we perceived to be Occidental values – freedom of expression, including for most controversial opinions, freedom of assembly, freedom of movement etc.
Hint: we were deeply naive.
– this was NOT a pro-capitalism revolt – in fact, capitalism as it arrived was disastrous and perceived as such by the population (in average), which resulted in a wave of pro-Ceausescu nostalgia that is enduring (mostly because of less inequality, of the economic kind).
Each time I see these pictures posted, I understand why. Today, we see an attempt to link progressivism with communism. I think this is misguided, our communism was National Communism (look it up) and was infused in patriotism, nationalism and social conservatism – minus religion – as we were a secular state.
This was NOT a progressive uprising either. At most anti-totalitarian.
It was a proletarian, patriotic, nationalistic uprising against a failed elite regime that presented as “communist”, but manifested as Corruption and Stealing.
Love
A hero to his people, and a proud example of fight against tyranny. We need more people like him in our world.
Something seems off to me in this picture….it is either staged or perhaps this person works for the government. That or im wrong
He most likely was a Securitate, the secret police, officer
Based
Anyone know what his rifle is? It looks a lot like an ak47 but the barrel is to long
[https://www.reddit.com/r/MilitaryPorn/comments/raczmx/anticommunist_civilian_fighters_and_a_defected/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb](https://www.reddit.com/r/MilitaryPorn/comments/raczmx/anticommunist_civilian_fighters_and_a_defected/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb)
Here’s what I suspect to be a different angle.
LE: It seems that the photo was taken by Joel Robine, a French photojournalist on Christmas Eve 1989. More pictures [here](https://www.gettyimages.com/search/photographer?photographer=JOEL%20ROBINE&assettype=image&family=editorial&sort=mostpopular&locations=67285) and [here](https://www.gettyimages.com/search/photographer?photographer=JOEL%20ROBINE&assettype=image&begindate=1989-11-30&enddate=1990-01-23&family=editorial&recency=daterange&sort=mostpopular) (same site but it seems the tags are all over the place so I used two search criteria).
[Bonus](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/romanian-soldier-hides-in-a-cars-boot-during-fights-to-news-photo/1190187842?adppopup=true).
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LE: or you can filter by event, to see [photographs from multiple authors](https://www.gettyimages.com/search/more-like-this/1235750290?assettype=image&artists=christophe%20simon&begindate=1989-11-30&enddate=1990-01-23&family=editorial&recency=daterange) but some of them are NSFW.
Romania is really thriving these days.
PSL-54C gang
We should always remember democracies aren’t always born peacefully.
Protests alone fail. Democratic activists will be crushed if they cannot make oppression hard. The main narrative entirely forgets that the Iron Curtain didn’t fall without risk. Folks had to fight and die to push the military off.
Lets hope he carved a lot of notches on his barrel c: