{"product_id":"december-never-ended-the-survival-of-nicolae-ceausescu-9798195747152","title":"December Never Ended: The Survival of Nicolae Ceausescu","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Anton Axis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Eastern Europe - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOn December 25th, 1989, Nicolae Ceaușescu was shot against a wall in T�rgoviște.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe footage aired on every channel. The world exhaled. The trial lasted one hour. The burial was immediate and the verdict was permanent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNone of it was true.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDecember Never Ended\u003c\/i\u003e is the memoir Nicolae Ceaușescu was never supposed to write - composed in the voice of a man who built one of the most paranoid, layered, and total security states in the history of the Eastern Bloc, and who survived its collapse because a quality control inspector in a Brașov factory flagged a batch of steel armor as \u003ci\u003ewithin acceptable tolerance\u003c\/i\u003e and moved on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour millimeters. That is the distance between the history the world knows and the history that actually happened.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside an armored personnel carrier moving north through the frozen Wallachian plain, a signal bled through a substandard hull toward a monitoring room where a single USLA sergeant had to decide, in four minutes, whether a ghost on his console was noise or the most important transmission of his career. In Bucharest, a revolution was broadcasting itself live to the world. In a field outside Văcărești, Elena Ceaușescu pressed her palm flat against the freezing steel and waited to find out what the machine her husband built would do when it was finally asked to save him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a story about a dictator falling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a story about a system that didn't.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrecise, cold, and deeply unsettling, \u003ci\u003eDecember Never Ended\u003c\/i\u003e is power writing its own autopsy - and discovering, to everyone's horror, that the patient is still breathing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Survival of Nicolae Ceaușescu.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47882617192599,"sku":"9798195747152","price":959.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798195747152.webp?v=1781096270","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/december-never-ended-the-survival-of-nicolae-ceausescu-9798195747152","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}