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Nicolae Ceaușescu, who led Romania from 1965 to 1989, served as General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party. Ceaușescu had a large family, several members of which wielded influence in Communist Romania. Below are given outlines of his immediate …
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In November 1989, the XIVth Congress of the Romanian Communist Party (PCR) saw Ceaușescu, then aged 71, re-elected for another five years as leader of the PCR. During the Congress, Ceaușescu made a speech denouncing the anti-Communist revolutions happening throughout the rest of Eastern Europe. The following month, Ceaușescu's government itself collapsed after a series o…The trial and execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu were held on 25 December 1989 in Târgoviște, Romania. The trial was conducted by an Exceptional Military Tribunal, a drumhead court-martial created at the request of a newly formed group called the National Salvation Front. Its outcome was predetermined, and it resulted in guilty verdicts and death sentences for former Romanian President and Romanian Communist Party General Secretary Nicolae Ceaușescu, an…
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A member of the Romanian Communist youth movement during the early 1930s, Ceaușescu was imprisoned in 1936 and again in 1940 for his Communist Party activities. In 1939 he married Elena …
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On Christmas Day 20 years ago, Nicolae Ceausescu’s despotic rule in Romania ended in summary execution – since when his only surviving son has been left …
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The Ceausescu family lived in luxury. His son was practically chairman of Steaua Bucuresti, his wife was made "doctor in chemistry" by the University of Bucharest, the …
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In the chaotic days that followed Ceaușescu’s ouster in what is now known as the Romanian Revolution, more civilians were shot and killed than during Ceaușescu’s military crackdown on protesters …
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Nicolae Ceausescu ruled with an iron fist for 25 years until he was overthrown and executed on Christmas Day in 1989. A quarter-century after his ouster, the country is still dealing with his...
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Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, were shot by a firing squad on Dec. 25, 1989, ending their ruthless 24-year rule.
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