Ceausescu: Dictator. Murderer. Madman.
Vampire?
Let's examine the evidence:
Ceausescu hated the cross!According to
Dr. Nicholas Dima's book, "
Journey to Freedom", Ceausescu hated
Christian crosses,
crucifixes, and
blessings. While visiting
Venezuela, he requested that a crucifix in his room be removed before he would stay there. And
Edward Behr said, in "
Kiss the Hand You Cannot Bite: The Rise and Fall of the Ceausescus," that the dictator walked out of a
dinner in
New Orleans because a
priest insisted on saying a
prayer before the meal.
Ceausescu hated churches!Lt. General
Ion Mihai Pacepa, who ran
Romania's
spy bureau until he defected to the West in 1978, wrote a book called "
Red Horizons: The True Story of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu's Crimes, Lifestyle, and Corruption." In it, he claimed that Ceausescu had dozens of
churches in
Bucharest demolished, declaring himself "overjoyed at getting rid of musty old churches and
synagogues." And Dima notes that, in addition to the
destruction of churches, Ceausescu also ordered that numerous
cemeteries be dug up and the
corpses removed...
Ceausescu might've been possessed by demons!Well, probably not. But Dima claimed that Ceausescu moved in a
bizarre,
jerking,
uncoordinated way and spoke in an
eerie,
stammering,
guttural manner. Indicating that he may have had a less-than-solid grasp of
reality, Dima believed that Ceausescu had been
possessed by a host of
demons who constantly fought for control of his body. Maybe not specifically
vampiric, unless some of the demons were
blood-drinkers...
HIV rates skyrocketed under Ceausescu!Romania had an unusually high number of
HIV cases, especially among children. In 1997, the
International Health Organization estimated that half of the world's
juvenile cases of HIV were in Romania. The rate of adult
infection was not believed to be as high, but was still considered much higher than normal. But that couldn't have been because of Ceausescu's stubborn belief that
AIDS wouldn't threaten his
communist utopia and thus never funded any
education or
resources to battle the
epidemic, right? No, man, it was vampires!
Vampires!
Nicolae Ceausescu and the Case of the Vanishing Corpse!According to Behr, when the Ceausescus were
executed in 1989, their bodies were transported to a
sports stadium near Bucharest. Embarrassingly, the authorities then found themselves unable to locate the
corpses. Behr writes: "
Army search parties scoured the area all night before finding them the following morning, near a
shed within the stadium grounds. Who shifted the bodies, and for what purpose, was never satisfactorily established."
Ceausescu idolized Dracula!Sure,
Vlad Tepes is still considered a Romanian
national hero, but Ceausescu seemed to carry his fondness for the
Son of the Dragon a bit farther than most. Though
Bram Stoker's famous novel wasn't published in Romania until after Ceausescu's death (maybe he didn't want to give the locals any ideas about how to deal with the
undead), the dictator ordered grand
celebrations in 1976 to honor Tepes on the 500th anniversary of his death. Ceausescu ordained
eulogies,
novels,
artwork, a
film, and a
commemorative stamp to memorialize
Dracula. Ceausescu also tried to move the capital of Romania from Bucharest to
Tirgoviste -- Tepes' 15th century capital! And according to
Raymond T. McNally and
Radu Florescu in "
In Search of Dracula: The History of Dracula and Vampires," only a few days before he was overthrown, Ceausescu hid out in his palace at
Snagov, not far from where Tepes was laid to rest. McNally and Florescu speculate that Ceausescu was "seeking
solace and
support in Dracula's former capital."
What? You want more
evidence? Isn't it obvious by now? This type of
proof just can't be refuted, man! You could present this evidence in any court in the -- Hey, what's all this damn
mist coming under the door? I don't remember any
fog in the weather forecast. Oh God! Oh God, no!
Nosferatu!
Strigoii!
Vyrolakos! Das
Vampyr! Back, you foul --
Research from http://www.hollywoodinvestigator.com/ceausescu.htm and http://www.communistvampires.com/ceausescu.htm
Hssst! The sun!