Description Acceptable. Television footage of this event was culled into a three-hour documentary titled Videograms of a Revolution. The Letter of the Six was published in the leadup to this event. During this event, a speech at Palace Square was derailed when a chant about a leader “and the people” unexpectedly changed to that leader “the dictator.” This event was presaged by a truck and tractor worker strike two years earlier. After this event, an AIDS epidemic was revealed in its country’s overflowing (*) orphanages. This event began when protestors supporting Hungarian pastor László Tőkés (“toke-esh”) were fired on by soldiers in Timisoara. This event ended in a quick trial and execution of a leader and his wife on Christmas Day, 1989. For 10 points, name this event that overthrew the government of Nicolae Ceaucescu. ■END■
ANSWER: Romanian Revolution [accept Christmas Revolution before mention; accept any answer indicating the fall or end of communism in Romania; accept answers mentioning the overthrow or execution of the Nikolai Ceacescu, Elena Ceaucescu, or the Ceacescus before mention]
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