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Voices Of Revolution: Romania

by Mircea Dinescu, NPR
November 10, 2009

All this week, we hear firsthand accounts of the end of communism in Eastern Europe 20 years ago in our series Voices from a Revolution. Today, we hear a voice from Romania — Mircea Dinescu — a dissident poet and writer who helped storm the state-run TV station, and the man who announced live on air that "the dictator has fled!"

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  • All Things Considered, November 10, 2009
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