Is Putin the reincarnation of Rasputin? Or of Stalin?! Is Nicușor Dan the reincarnation of the infantile King Michael? Or of that royal scoundrel, Carol II? Is Călin Georgescu the reincarnation of Corneliu Zelea Codreanu? Or of Comrade Nicolae Ceaușescu—that "brilliant imbecile" (or "fool," as Theodor Paleologu labeled him in *Pathologies of Power*), a murderer of his own people, whom this "comrade" cast beneath the hooves of the KGB’s Trojan horses?!... The entire grotesque political charade—the elections controlled (rigged) by the oligarchs' party-state, and the subjection of Romania from within by the Great Predator from the East and other major predators, much like in the interwar period—leads me to believe that history repeats itself. The arrest of Corneliu Zelea Codreanu for the 1924 killing of the Iași prefect Constantin Manciu in front of the courthouse—and his subsequent release under pressure from fanatical Legionnaires—mirrors the circus surrounding Călin Georgescu’s arrest and release under pressure from fanatical sovereignist AUR supporters. Furthermore, the rhetoric proclaimed by Călin Georgescu upon leaving DIICOT custody—such as "God is great, the world is small!"—and the parallels drawn to the mystical fervor of the Legionnaire leader CZC and his obsession with the afterlife, all suggest that history is repeating itself. It unfolds just as the historian Jules Michelet brilliantly intuited in his *History of France*—within the Hegelian paradigm—"widening and spiraling outward." Fractal geometry demonstrates that individual and social existential history repeats itself in its essence. A fractal is a fragmented geometric shape that can be divided into parts, such that each part is a reduced-scale copy of the whole. In history, this phenomenon translates into the fact that the dynamics of major conflicts mirror the dynamics of minor ones. Fractal geometry offers a fascinating perspective on history, suggesting that human events do not unfold in a completely chaotic manner but rather follow self-similar patterns across different time scales. Although history never repeats itself identically, the structure of crises—and of the rise and fall of empires—often exhibits the same fundamental geometric characteristics, whether viewed over a decade or a millennium. A comparative analysis of Romanian society in the 1920s versus the 2020s reveals that history does indeed repeat itself in essence. At its core, Romanian society in the 2020s appears to be in a situation similar to that of the 1920s. Romania—forever caught in the vice-like grip of predatory great powers, as the French historian Jules Michelet described its history—finds itself, just as in the interwar period, at a crossroads of turbulent winds or on the brink of an abyss. Many who harbor nostalgia for the criminal and stupefying communist era—finding themselves at the "heights of despair," as Emil Cioran wrote—long to return to the boot of Rasputin, or more realistically, the boot of Ivan the Terrible (embodied today by the Stalin-Putin figure), by installing a "useful idiot" for Putin’s Russia in the Romanian presidency. The flight from freedom is the paranoid malady of those lacking personal responsibility—of those incapable of self-governance, or of being free and autonomous within an open society. This state of the collective unconscious fosters the resurgence of the primitive horde and the extremist beast—manifestations seen in European societies during the 1920s through Italian Fascism, German Nazism, and Romanian Legionarism. The massive vote by Germans for neo-Nazi extremists confirms the view of French historian Jules Michelet that history repeats itself, "widening and unfolding in a vast spiral."
