The Nastase thriller

[luvdovz]

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/06/21/ex-romania-pm-who-shot-himself-to-have-surgery/

The former Romanian prime-minister Adrian Nastase attempted suicide after the Supreme Court in Bucharest confirmed his 2-year sentence for fraud (illegal use of power to fund his party). So the sentence was final and not subject to appeal. But instead of

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[peamasii]

Nastase was an integral part of the opportunistic, postcommunist thieving regime which "transitioned" the socialist economy to the free market, enriching their class while doing so. The Social Democrats (FSN / PDSR / PSD / ...) in Romania are just an old wolf in sheep's clothes, I hope that they don't win coming elections.

[htpcl]

This sounds so familiar to our own situation in Bulgaria. Just substitute Social Democrats with Socialist party, and Nastase with Stanishev.

[rimpala]

The something about shooting yourself in the neck and failing to kill yourself that sounds like it would really, really suck.

[policraticus]

That his name is Nastase is just too delicious.

Naastazzzze!

[luvdovz]

It's just a shortened form of the personal name Anastas that's common in Eastern Europe. :)

[rimpala]

Sounds like a great porn star name to me.

[underlankers]

It seems that this is another illustration of the pitfalls of transitioning from a relatively brutal totalitarian regime to a free-market democracy. Totalitarianism is a system that runs on corruption, capitalism is easily prone to it if unchecked, put together capitalism and the end of totalitarianism and a transitional system and you get clusterfucks like this.