Living in Ceausescu's Romania.mp3

A 10 minute documentary from the always excellent BBC Witness series and one of the most extraordinary stories I've heard in a long time.

In 1982, the life of a young teenager living in communist Romania was turned upside down when her father was arrested by the feared Securitate secret police. What happened thereafter, even though they had committed no crime, and how they lived their lives is truly extraordinary.

Never again should we in the west complain of living in a surveillance society.....