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"Voices Of Revolution: Romania" [audio 3 min 18 sec]

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!"
Read entire article at NPR All Things Considered