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Nicolae Ceaușescu ( / tʃaʊˈʃɛskuː / chow-SHESK-oo, Romanian: [nikoˈla.e tʃe̯a.uˈʃesku] ⓘ, 26 January [ O.S. 13 January] 1918 – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian communist politician who served as the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989. He was the second and last communist leader of Romania.
The trial and execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu were held on 25 December 1989 in Târgoviște, Romania. [1] . The trial was conducted by an Extraordinary Military Tribunal, a drumhead court-martial created at the request of a newly formed group called the National Salvation Front.
Jun 19, 2024 · Nicolae Ceaușescu (born January 26, 1918, Scornicești, Romania—died December 25, 1989, Târgovişte) was a Communist official who was the leader of Romania from 1965 until he was overthrown and killed in a revolution in 1989.
Apr 2, 2014 · Nicolae Ceausescu was the leader of Communist Romania for more than two decades until his execution in 1989.
Dec 25, 2019 · Nicolae Ceausescu, who had effectively presided over the deaths of many thousands through his political intransigence and callous disregard, was the last victim of his own regime.
It was on Christmas Day 30 years ago that Romania's tyrannical communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was executed by firing squad after a summary trial. A bloody battle played out in Romania in...
Dec 24, 2014 · 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...
Nicolae Ceauşescu, (born Jan. 26, 1918, Scorniceşti, Rom.—died Dec. 25, 1989, Târgovişte), Romanian politician. Prominent in the Romanian Communist Party, in 1965 he succeeded Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej as the party’s leader. In 1967 he became head of state and in 1974 president of Romania.
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 Elena, was the bloodiest. But few communist regimes had...
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 abolished in the great wave of revolutions and reforms that swept across central and eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s.
