Ceausescu's name is mentioned only once in a joke.
Ceausescu goes to the post office in disguise so as not to be recognized.
He wants to understand why the stamp with his effigy does not sell.
The employee explains to him that he doesn't stick because people spit sideways.
The joke says a lot about the popularity rating in Romania of The Conducator in 1972. It is told by a high school student, one of the gang who drops his uniform to meet in an apartment and party.
While parents stare gloomily at the exploits of Ilie Nastase on black and white televisions, their children gather to drink, smoke, dance and kiss.
That evening, they also have another idea in mind.
Passing on, via a French journalist, a letter to Metronom, a clandestine musical program broadcast by Radio Free Europe, hosted by Cornel Chiriac, a Romanian journalist in exile (he was assassinated in Munich in 1975).
Love, music and freedom
Politics and music go hand in hand...
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