What happened to ceausescu family

On Christmas Day 1989, after a tumultuous year, Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife were executed by firing squad against a toilet block.
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Twenty-five years ago this Christmas, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his hated wife, Elena, were executed by a firing squad. Their deaths …
Fall of Ceaușescu: When Romanians stood up to tyranny. Of all the revolutions that swept across Eastern Europe 30 years ago in the winter of 1989, the overthrow of Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife...
By the mid-1930s, Ceausescu was a rising leader in the Union of Communist Youth. After joining the underground Communist Party, he was arrested and sentenced …
Nicolae and Elsa Ceaușescu were the last people to be executed by the Romanian state. The death penalty, along with the regime he had ruled over for twenty-four years was …
Since the cataclysmic events of December 1989 when the dictator Ceausescu and his wife were executed, countless orphanages were uncovered across the countryside of …
Their bodies were reburied in a family grave in 2010, largely forgotten by the world, though not Romanians. The show trial was “quite shameful, but necessary,” …
When they were first exposed in 1989, Romania’s orphanages shocked the world. But what happened to the children left behind? Vişinel Balan, now 27, tells his story.
In 1990, images of emaciated children, locked up like animals in Ceaușescu’s orphanages shocked the world. Since then, Romania has made major changes; it is even called a ‘model country’.
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Ceausescu was executed on Christmas Day along with his wife Elena. More than 1,000 people died in the crackdown on protesters before and after Ceausescu’s death.
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