Palace of the Parliament: Romania's Communist Monster

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Source/Further reading:

A bucketload of statistics: http://cic.cdep.ro/en/general-present...
Anca Petrescu obituary (paywall): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obit...
Some interesting notes: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/...
CNN: https://edition.cnn.com/travel/articl...
Economist: https://www.economist.com/eastern-app...
Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/201...
Romania’s revolution: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe...
Revolution: https://balkaninsight.com/2019/12/19/...
Footage of the 1989 speech being interrupted:    • Nicolae Ceausescu LAST SPEECH (englis...  
The Bucharest Earthquake of 1977: https://www.inyourpocket.com/buchares...
Cult of personality: https://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/30/ma...
Trial and execution video: https://artsandculture.google.com/ass...