This week, Haley kicks things off with the incredibly disturbing story of Nicolae Ceausescu, a communist leader of Romania with a horrifying track record, and in the second half Harmony shares the shocking story of Aum Shinrikyo: The Japanese cult behind the Tokyo subway sarin gas attack.

Resources

• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/04/ikea-funds-romania-secret-police-communist-era

• https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-11-28-mn-9002-story.html

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_the_Parliament

• https://forward.com/culture/2923/the-cold-war-e2-80-99s-strangest-bedfellows-how-romania/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Romania

• https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26838177

• https://balkaninsight.com/2019/12/25/keys-mikes-spies-how-the-securitate-stole-romanias-privacy/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Mihai_Pacepa#Defection

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_IKEA

• https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1785216/

• https://www.history.co.uk/article/the-fall-of-nicolae-ceausescu-romanias-last-communist-leader

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_revolution#Timi%C8%99oara_uprising

• https://thelul.org/library/haruki-murakami-underground.pdf 

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack 

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aum_Shinrikyo 

• https://apnews.com/article/japan-subway-gassing-cult-crime-95e9e258f347f14bc067b8b9702e051a 

• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35975069 

• https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-43629706 

  
  

  https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/aum-shinrikyo