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I n a rambling military and civilian cemetery in Bucharest’s Sector 6 you can find the graves of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu. Considering the ostentatious lifestyles of Romania’s former first ...
Nicolae Ceausescu, who was executed with his wife on Christmas day of 1989, was a maverick and despotic Rumanian Communist leader who pursued an independent course abroad and demanded slavish ...
Romanians nostalgic for the communist era have gathered at the grave of former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, who were tried and executed on Christmas Day twenty-five years ago.
The aircraft was part of the communist dictator's presidential fleet, but a pilot quoted by AFP said Ceausescu usually flew in a Boeing 707 jet. The plane's starting price was 25,000 euros, but it ...
There was a time when many regarded Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu as a proponent of socialism with a human face. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The Rombac 1-11, which was used for the dictator’s official flights between 1986 and 1989, will go under the hammer on May 27 with a starting price of €25,000 (around $30,000).
First, Ceausescu continued to run a rigidly hard-line communist state at home. Second, Romania, unlike Hungary or Czechoslovakia, is not strategically important, and Ceausescu`s mild apostasy ...
Life in Ceausescu's Romania was lived in the shadow of his feared secret police force - the Securitate. Hear one child's story. Show more During the communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu ...
Ilie Ceausescu, 76, who served as a deputy defense minister under Nicolae Ceausescu, his older brother and Romania's late communist dictator, died Tuesday in Bucharest of complications from pneumonia.
Jim Rosapepe and Sheilah Kast write in The Wall Street Journal Europe that Romania has one of the world's highest ratios of bad press to real achievement.