AHC: Romanian Civil War

Romania is the only country to had gone through a violent anti-communist revolution in Eastern Europe. Which a POD no earlier than 1980, could a civil war break out?
 

ar-pharazon

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If I recall correctly by the time Caesescu fell he had no one behind him except the security services and they were overwhelmed by the overwhelming majority of the country that hated him.

To have a Romanian civil war I'd you need 40-50% of the population to have a stake in his system and be willing to fight for it.

I'm not sure how you would get that.
 
Ceausescu was so hated that practically anyone didn't support him. Probably OTL was closest of civil war what you can get. If then you somehow avoid Ceausescu making so terrible politics what he did.
 
If I recall correctly by the time Caesescu fell he had no one behind him except the security services and they were overwhelmed by the overwhelming majority of the country that hated him.

I'm not sure how you would get that.

Ceausescu chooses not to pay off the entirety of the Romanian debt during the 1980s. As a result, conditions aren't quite as bad by the end of that decade as IOTL. Further, Ceausescu gives more favour toward the army and not just the Securitate and builds up more of a base of loyalists there. This leads to enough elements of the army and the populace violently resisting the Romanian Revolution, and as a result the country descends into civil war.
 
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