On this day 40 years ago a coup attempt by General Nicolae Militaru against Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu failed because the soldiers who were supposed to carry out the plan were sent to harvest corn

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  1. > A Securitate plot to depose Ceaușescu existed in the early 1980s, and he is known to have joined in 1984, adding an Army dimension.[7] Following the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985, Militaru requested the Soviet leader’s backing for an anti-Ceaușescu coup d’état; this was rejected.[8]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Militaru

  2. A piece of shit like the rest of the communists. He was just another murderer, his allegience was not with Ceausescu but the GRU/KGB.