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President, just a year ago, you welcome me to Bucharest as the first American president ever to visit Romania.

Today I'm very honored to welcome you to Washington DC as the first president of

Romania ever to visit the United States of America.

On the 21st of December 1989, Romanian President Nikolai Chauchezkin, the moderate

friend of the West who'd been knighted in Denmark and the United Kingdom,

who'd condemned the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and snubbed the Warsaw Pact,

stepped out onto a balcony overlooking Palace Square in Bucharest.

In the weeks prior, communist regimes across Eastern Europe had fallen like dominoes in a popular wave of revolution, cheered on by governments in the West.

Despite his supposed credentials as moderate, Bucharest was seemingly impervious to change.

Thousands of Raucous supporters greeted him

as they held his portrait aloft

and waved communist flags in the air.

But Chauchezky had not come to praise the revolution.

He had come to bury it. A sudden commotion at the back of the crowd caught his attention.

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