Monarchs, fascists & communists: Romania’s modern history
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Eleanor Chachesko, a Genius Scientist?
Eleanor joined the commonist party, e in the early days when her husband was still very young. Her only qualification in science is that she once worked in an illegal vitamin making store and enjoyed putting together these sort of vitamin fection tablets. She had no qualifications whatever. So all this is manufactured. And it's a huge embarrassment, i think, that we didn't just peel back a few layers and speak to people who would have known, who would have said all this is a fiction.
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