In 1984 Ceausescu personally laid the cornerstone for the People’s House, a gargantuan edifice meant to have approximately five times the square footage of Versailles. It was to become the heaviest building on earth, and though it was supposedly built for the Romanian people it would serve the Ceausescus as the largest palace that had ever been constructed. Both the military and ordinary citizens were drafted to assist in its construction while hundreds of citizens literally froze to death every year in the Romanian winter. Many others died from asphyxiation due to turning on their stoves to
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