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The revolution which happened in December 1989 was waiting to happen immintnetly because hundreds of people had been massacred a few days before in Timisoara by the police. A standard propaganda rally was taking place in the capital, Bucharest, on 22nd December (I think), where thousands of "joyous" workers and citizens were forced to go to the presidential palace and chant their praises for President Ceausescu.
A few people in the middle of the crowd overcame their fear, and started jeering and booing, and chanting "Timisoara!" and "Murderer!". It would have been unthinkable even a few weeks earlier, because the whole crowd could have been massacred. Ceausescu was in the middle of a speech on the balcony when the booing started, and he was taken aback because he genuinely did not understand why they were upset.
The crucial point is that the whole rally, and the speech and the booing, were being broadcast live on TV. A few seconds after the booing started, the TV transmission was cut off. But it was already too late, because the people had seen what had happened. Almost immediately, crowds of people came swarming onto the streets and stormed the presidential palace. Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena escaped (with moments to spare) by helicopter from the roof of the palace.
Two days later, they were captured in the countryside to where they had fled, they were taken to a military barracks, where on Christmas Day they were summarily tried and then taken out and executed.