When we think of political prisoners in Eastern Europe we think of the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century or perhaps the contemporary regimes in Belarus or Russia. But political prisoners have been a thing since forever essentially everywhere and, of course, newly unified Romania of the 1860s was no exception. So in this episode in English of the Propaganda Basement we shall first take a short look at a secular book published by the Orthodox Church in the Ottoman Empire in 1854. The very existence of this book demolishes several mainstream contemporary assumptions about the Bucharest of the 1850s. Then I shall read to you (with subtitles) from an original copy of the book "Întemnițările mele politice” (My political imprisonments) by Nicolae T. Orășanu, published in 1861. N.T. Orășanu was a political operative that had a role in the installment of Alexandru Ioan Cuza as ruler (and subsequently the 1859 unification still celebrated today every January the 24th). How big of a role Orășanu played in the unification is disputed. But what it is not disputed is that he served time in jail for daring to mock the ruler and that he hanged out close to the circles of power routinely. Orășanu's memoirs are funny too, in addition to being full of bits of information from that time, information that one would never get in school. Of course, I stop every step of the way to explain as many references as possible. Let's explore! Support this channel (gib shekels)! https://freedomalternative.com/donate/ Channel in Romanian: https://www.youtube.com/c/FreedomAlternativeRO Odysee English-language channel: https://odysee.com/@FreedomAlternative:e Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/sNdmaCZ8c5Nn/ Gab.ai: https://gab.ai/Freedomalternative Twitter: https://twitter.com/Freedomalternat Telegram: https://t.me/freedomalternative Discord: https://discord.gg/5EAfbNc Intro music credits: https://blocsonic.com/releases/track/bscomp0031-disc-1-1-nanowar-of-steel-nanowar Outro music credits: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Juanitos/Exotica/juanitos_-_01_-_octopussy ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCfhlFleqf0

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