Rumanian Communist Dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was a Vampire!

The Duchess of Zeon · Post by **The Duchess of Zeon** » 2003-04-07 01:59am

http://www.communistvampires.com/ceausescu.htm

The Duchess of Zeon · Post by **The Duchess of Zeon** » 2003-04-07 02:05am

Continuing to read on that website, I have discovered something even more disturbing than someone believing that Ceausescu was really a vampire: That's part of a website for a novel about communism being a vampire conspiracy.

To quote:

"Combines political dystopia, horror, espionage thriller, black comedy, even a Boy Meets Girl story. [Its] central idea: vampirism as the ultimate form of communism, in which blood is redistributed from producers to parasites. Romania in the last days of the Ceausescu regime provides exactly the right setting for this trope ..."

That is fucked up.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-04-07 02:06am

WTF? Looks just like propaganda for a silly fiction book.

EDIT:
An Amazon.com review

Brilliant satire. This is NOT JUST a vampire novel, in the same way that "Animal Farm" is NOT JUST a funny animal book. This gothic tale has our two vampire hunters (think of Zander and a really grown-up Buffy) taking on real-life dictator Nikolai Ceaucescu, here portrayed as the head bloodsucker of Roumania. Of course, the vampire tale is just the proverbial "spoonful of sugar" for the politics in the book, and occasionally, things begin to get a little heavy-handed. But Sipos doesn't let a reader's attention flag very long, because he knows people expect lots of vampires in a genre novel. In this, he doesn't disappoint -- the heroine doesn't get much time for speeches before the two of them are under attack again. The passages describing vampire depravity are made doubly chilling when set among the ruins of Roumania, which are described with an almost documentary flair. Part of the reason the two disparate elements of Vampire Nation work together so well is that Roumania is both a Communist wasteland and the homeland of Vlad Tepes, the real-life inspiration for Dracula. Author Thomas Sipos drew on his own childhood memory of the devastation of Roumania and turned it into a metaphor; in so doing he has created a vampire novel entirely on his own terms.

No typos in there.

Then again, perhaps it isn't so silly? Now I have to track down a copy at Barnes & Noble, and see if the first couple of chapters are total drivel.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-04-07 02:07am

Well, if he drank blood I wouldn't be that surprised. Hell, for a while around the turn of the last century Romania produced blank cartridges modified to fire a small wooden plug, thus allowing you to fight off vampires with your rifle.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-04-07 02:10am

Sea Skimmer wrote:Well, if he drank blood I wouldn't be that surprised. Hell, for a while around the turn of the last century Romania produced blank cartridges modified to fire a small wooden plug, thus allowing you to fight off vampires with your rifle.

Now that's just cool.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-04-07 02:11am

The Duchess of Zeon wrote:Continuing to read on that website, I have discovered something even more disturbing than someone believing that Ceausescu was really a vampire: That's part of a website for a novel about communism being a vampire conspiracy.

To quote:

"Combines political dystopia, horror, espionage thriller, black comedy, even a Boy Meets Girl story. [Its] central idea: vampirism as the ultimate form of communism, in which blood is redistributed from producers to parasites. Romania in the last days of the Ceausescu regime provides exactly the right setting for this trope ..."
That is fucked up.

That is fucked up. If they do that, it's more that a group of vampires decide to be communist, as opposed to vampirism being the ultimate form of communism.

Dooey Jo · Post by **Dooey Jo** » 2003-04-07 09:40am

Well if the guy was executed and died from it, he couldn't have been a vampire. Unless they cut of his head and drove an oak stake through his heart, of course, but I don't think they did.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-04-07 10:25am

Yeah, I got this link earlier from samizdata (been surfing there, Duchess?). Weird stuff.