Last Ceausescu speech

Even in communist countries, leeching from your citizens - no matter how much you claim to be doing it 'for their own good' - is considered poor form. At some point, people who have eyes to see and brains to think, see the light and act. There comes a time when people don't buy the BS anymore and break out of their apathy, even - maybe especially - as the aging despot desperately tries to consolidate and project power.

Sic semper...