România pre and post Middle East 1979 events

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I find it quite fascinating that Romania’s history was altered so greatly by a single remote global event in the late 70s: 1979 oil crisis, which lead to significant economic decline in early 80s, rapid declining standard of living and eventually lead to the fall of the socialist/autocratic system (along with the whole Eastern European block). That the Americans and Russians were heavy contributors to the 1979 event (as well as previous and subsequent ones) is almost irrelevant.