The seventh of a sixteen-part series about twentieth-century Romania, this episode explores the dawn of Soviet leadership under the blockhead brute Petru Groza, the dethronement of King Michael, the gruesome Pitești Experiments, and the origins of Jack Lemmon-lookalike Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and his dog-brained protégé, Nicolae Ceaușescu.
The seventh of a sixteen-part series about twentieth-century Romania, this episode explores the dawn of Soviet leadership under the blockhead brute Petru Groza, the dethronement of King Michael, the gruesome Pitești Experiments, and the origins of Jack Lemmon-lookalike Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and his dog-brained protégé, Nicolae Ceaușescu.
Series: Ceaușescu's Downfall (7/16)