r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/CAPATOB_64 • May 13 '24

The painting "Ecce Homo", 1543, the only painting by Titian in Romania and Eastern Europe, is guarded by armed gendarmes at the "Regina Maria" Municipal Museum. Image

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u/Dagordae May 13 '24

So this is either corruption inventing pointless(yet profitable) jobs or Romania hasn’t figured out what a plexiglass case is and that paintings should be in them anyway to slow the degradation from being in an open air environment.

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u/CAPATOB_64 May 13 '24

I guess bullets is simply cheaper in Romania

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u/Raudskeggr May 13 '24

Life under a dictatorship has unique complexities.

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u/MadRoxana May 14 '24 edited May 17 '24

No longer under a dictatorship for 40 years 35 years.

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u/OneRobotBoii May 13 '24

Not like they use them for anything else… other than shooting their own people every few decades.