Original sentence: According to Burlan, Ceauşescu was overconfident that the Romanian people loved him, and believed that he did not need protection.Ceauşescu was stripped of his honorary GCB by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (famously awarded to him, together with the fancy of a trip in the queen's carriage, in exchange for Romania buying outdated British technology), on the day before his execution.Dumitru Burlan who claims that his troops had only two guns.Mari Români, a popular television show, conducted an un-scientific poll among Romanians that revealed Ceauşescu to be perceived as the eleventh greatest Romanian of all time.On his 70th birthday in 1988 Ceauşescu was decorated with the Karl-Marx-Orden by then SED-chief Erich Honecker
Edited sentence: Burlan claims that Ceauşescu was overconfident that the Romanian people loved him, and believed that he did not need protection.Ceauşescu was stripped of his honorary GCB by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (famously awarded to him, together with a horse-drawn carriage trip with the queen, in exchange for Romania buying outdated British technology), on the day before his execution.Dumitru Burlan who claims that his troops had only two guns (insufficient for any serious defense).Mari Români, a popular television show, conducted a poll among Romanians that revealed Ceauşescu to be perceived as the eleventh greatest Romanian of all time.On his 70th birthday in 1988 Ceauşescu was demonstratively decorated with the Karl-Marx-Orden by then SED-chief Erich Honecker