Vladimir Tismăneanu: Am Prezis Căderea Lui Ceaușescu. Știu Ce Urmează | Dialog Liber #127

My guest is Vladimir Tismăneanu, a university professor in the US, a historian of ideas and the president of the commission through which Romania officially condemned communism. Today we debate why the Securitate did not disappear after the Revolution and where its people and money ended up, how Nicușor Dan went from a “rational man” to a “pawn” and where the influence on him comes from, and why the man who predicted Ceaușescu’s fall the day before now says that Trump will lose Congress and may be impeached. 📧 Subscribe to Liberoteca, my weekly NEWSLETTER on Substack: https://teodor.substack.com/ ➤ Books mentioned in the episode: 1. The Adventure of Ideas. - Vladimir Tismăneanu 2. The Ethics of Not Forgetting - Monica Lovinescu 3. The Myths of Romanian Communism - coord. Lucian Boia 4. The Illusion of Anti-Communism. Critical Readings of the Tismăneanu Report - coord. Vasile Ernu 5. Elective Affinities - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ➤You can find the guest here: Facebook: Facebook: vladimir.tismaneanu.1 ➤Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 02:01 The Tismăneanu Report, 20 Years Later 05:26 The Night of December 22, 1989 09:31 The Securitate Never Disappeared 15:48 Foreign Espionage, Led by the KGB 17:56 Healthy Nationalism After 1990 23:56 His File and the Securitate's Wealth 29:37 Nicușor Dan, From Rational to Pawn 34:37 ​​Dan and the Religious Far Right 40:31 I Was Wrong About Nicușor Dan 42:11 Nicu Ceaușescu and the Cat Without a Tail 45:02 Georgescu, Codreanu and the Crowd Baths 50:35 I predicted the fall of Ceaușescu, Trump is coming 55:08 Quick Questions ➤ About the Podcast: Dialog Liber is the podcast hosted by Teodor Cataniciu about geopolitics, power and prosperity. Our mission is to encourage open debates, promote good books and long-term thinking, and be a source of informed optimism for the future of Romania and Europe, starting from the conviction that we are the people we were waiting for to save us. ➤ About Teodor: Teodor N. Cătăniciu was named one of the best entrepreneurs under 35 by the Dutch daily FD - Financial Times, his story has been shared on platforms such as TEDx, Outlook Magazine, Wall Street, and was selected in the 30 Under 30 list by Forbes Romania. He is a Millennium Fellow at the Atlantic Council, a Polaris Fellow at the University of Austin (USA), an opinion contributor for platforms such as Adevărul.ro, and hosts the Dialog Liber podcast. Teodor is a Distinguished Alumnus of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest with a specialization in Urban Planning Law, and obtained a Master of Science in Finance, where he was the President of the 2020 Class, at Columbia University in New York. ➤ Listen to the audio version: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gDHkeN... Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ro/podcast... RSS (For Your Favorite App): https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2103975.rss ➤ You can also follow us on: Official website: https://Teodor.com/podcast TikTok: tiktok.com/@teodorcataniciu Instagram: instagram.com/@teodorcataniciu Facebook: facebook.com/teodorcataniciu LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/cataniciu Twitter: twitter.com/teodorcataniciu ➤ Music: Intro Music: Four Seasons (Vivaldi) remixed by Will Borders @willborders