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title: "The Man They Killed on Christmas Day Paperback – July 29, 2013"
brand: "catalin gruia"
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# The Man They Killed on Christmas Day Paperback – July 29, 2013

**Brand:** catalin gruia
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- **What is this?** The Man They Killed on Christmas Day Paperback – July 29, 2013 by catalin gruia
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ its clear and I recommend it to anyone who enjoys history from a personal ...
*by E***N on September 19, 2014*

Without following the news closely it can be hard to keep abreast of all the changes that have happend in my lifetime (and maybe yours) in Eastern Europe. This story brings home the impact to the folks who live there how a dictator affects the common people, the ones who just happen to abide in an area of the world that is unstable. Not a long read, its clear and I recommend it to anyone who enjoys history from a personal perspective.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Witness to a terrible piece of history
*by B***A on August 22, 2013*

I was 12 years old back in december 1989 when Revolution burst out.Christmas lost its magic.The riot in the street and the sound of fireguns shots replaced the magic with terror.Still, unvoiced joy made its way through adults'eyes, while an anxious silence grabbed everybody.Unlike adults, I experienced some kind of a paradoxal feeling of regret for the dethroned dictator.In school I was thaught to respect him. He was some kind of hero turning the very idea of justice into something touchable.All of a sudden the handsome, smiling man whose neverfailing portrait throned on every school classroom wall was caught. Strangely, on TV I saw he was old and helpless. I felt sorry for him.I wondered how was it possible for such old helpless man to have control over a country of people who hated him?? How was it still possible for us, the young ones to like him, though??Reading Catalin Gruia's book I came to get the whole picture and the explanations I needed to solve out the paradox.Catalin has the power to synthetise and restore a complicated long story by emphasizing the key moments and to equally provide the reader with the detailed and juicy insights to keep him / her on the edge of the seat.He has a great capacity to sense out the essential and combine journalistic objective narration with interesting reflections and surprising details.For instance, he draws attention on the enactment of a law replacing the term Mr./Mrs/MS with Comrade/Citizen or the law that limited the circulation of cars on Sunday by odd/vs/even plate numbers every other week.These may look like fiction stories, but were actually enacted and experienced in real life, less than 30 years ago.I found this book very useful and easy to read.I was answered questions I have asked myself and I have also found essential information hard to dig for and select on my own.

### ⭐⭐⭐ Total Power Corrupts
*by A***S on February 9, 2014*

I did find this book interesting but as others have already mentioned, it tended to skim over the surface and we really needed more in depth details of social life, services etc. for the population at that period in time. I did note that there are Romanians now wishing they had the security they had during that period, housing, jobs food on the table and I have heard similar reports from other Eastern block countries. I also thought that it jumped about too much from different periods and would have been easier perhaps to understand this period better if the each chapter in the book had related to a period in time from his rise to power to Christmas Day.Living in Greece for 35 years has brought home to me just how closely related we in the Balkan countries are compared to Northern Europeans. I have found here that same sheep like attitude of following a leader that tells his people what they want to hear rather than the plain truth. Here in Greece it has always been the aim of the vast majority of Greeks to find a position in the public services rather than persue a career in private enterprise or even their own venture. Is this due to history, the instability in the respective countries that citizens seek security rather than to be adventurous and work to achieve a goal in life.Of course total power does corrupt and this is exactly the problems we have here in Greece and why we are living in a bankrupt country relying on loans. When there is only one House of Parliament and the Presidency is stripped of all power then of course the leaches are there to benefit themselves. The longer in power of any totalitarian leader, the more will gather to feed from the trough. These governments hand out positions to the faithful that keep them in power. This is why Democracy is so precious.Thanks Catalin, I do consider this book worth a read.

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