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If your colleagues handed you a doctorate you didn't earn, what would you do?
A military journalist films Elena Ceaușescu’s last minutes - what do you do if colleagues give you a doctorate you didn’t earn?
If your colleagues handed you a doctorate you didn't earn, what would you do?
In this episode, we follow the moments and records that compressed Elena Ceaușescu’s life into a contested scientific legacy and a public performance. The episode traces how a failed fourth-grade student became the named author of a technical dissertation and asks how systems of power manufacture credentials - and what that demands of the people caught inside them.
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