Ecstatic crowd burning a book. The streets were littered with burned books.

Book Burning:  I felt safe with the group burning the book. I never imagined that I would be in that situation. That if I walked a block away, I would be with an energy group of people. What the Communist would describe as the Lumpen Proletariat and I might not feel safe at all. Fortunately, I had a group of young people following me around who kept me safe when I went under the dark cloth since I was using my 8x10 view camera. They said they wanted to learn how an American journalist worked. I told them I was an artist, but they were sure I was a journalist and wanted to protect me. They were perceiving me differently than I perceive myself. OK, I thought, this is actually Anarchy. I had always thought of myself as an Anarchist until I was in the middle of it. 

The proletariat batter the doors of the State Department building until the door is smashed apart and a crowd of thousands pours into the building. 

Angry crowd approaching the Romanian State Dept Building.

Crowd attacking the Romanian State Department Building in Bucharest, the day after Ceausescu Execution on Christmas 1989.  

Ceausescu was initially hailed as a hero by the Romanians because he would not let the Russian tanks go through Romania on their way to suppress the Prague uprising in Czechoslovakia.