• Secretary Nicolae Ceaușescu, and his wife, Elena Ceaușescu. The main charge was genocide. Romanian state television announced that Nicolae Ceaușescu had been responsible...
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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...
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    Sceptrul lui Ceaușescu, scos la vânzare ("Ceaușescu's sceptre put up for sale"), "România Liberă" online, 23 June 2010 "Un Ceaușescu pe care nu îl știați:...
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    disinformation expert, Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa." In a 2006 article, Pacepa describes a conversation he had with Ceaușescu, who told him about "ten international...
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    and Elena Ceaușescu. He was a close associate of his father's political regime and considered the President's heir presumptive. According to Ion Mihai Pacepa...
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    opposition to Ceaușescu's rule while serving on the Committee. The Romanian Revolution began as a popular revolt in Timișoara. After Ceaușescu was overthrown...
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    ("We are the people, down with the dictator"), "Ceaușescu cine ești?/Criminal din Scornicești" ("Ceaușescu, who are you? A criminal from Scornicești").[citation...
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    cult of personality was just focused on Ceaușescu himself. By the early 1980s, however, his wife, Elena Ceaușescu—one of the few spouses of a Communist...
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    Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu during World War II, also occasionally used in official discourse to refer to Carol II and Nicolae Ceaușescu. The word is derived...
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  • Socialist Republic of Romania prior to the execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu. He was tried for murder on 9 April 1986, before a 500-person auditorium...
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    Ceaușescu's speech of 21 August 1968 was a public address by Nicolae Ceaușescu, General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party and President of the...
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    Gheorghiu-Dej protégé Nicolae Ceaușescu. Securitate general Ion Mihai Pacepa, who defected to the United States in 1978, wrote that Ceaușescu had allegedly told...
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    letter that criticized the economic policies of Nicolae Ceaușescu, but shortly thereafter Ceaușescu achieved a significant political victory: Romania paid...
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    Ceaușescu describes the voicing of disagreements with the government policies of Communist Romania during the totalitarian rule of Nicolae Ceaușescu after...
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    he also states that Maurer was of "German origin" (Ceausescu..., p.69) "Rumania's Man Abroad – Ion Gheorghe Maurer". The New York Times. 28 July 1964...
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    kill high-ranking defector Ion Mihai Pacepa, who received two death sentences from Romania in 1978, and on whose head Ceaușescu decreed a bounty of two million...
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    1989, Stănculescu organized the trial and execution of Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena Ceaușescu. In 2008, Stănculescu and another general, former Interior...
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    officially announced to the public by Ion Iliescu in radio and TV addresses on 22 December 1989, after the overthrow of Ceaușescu in the Romanian Revolution. The...
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    Ion Antonescu (/ˌæntəˈnɛskuː/; Romanian: [i'on antoˈnesku] ; 14 June [O.S. 2 June] 1882 – 1 June 1946) was a Romanian military officer and marshal who...
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    state of Romania. The office was created by the communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu in 1974 and has developed into its modern form after the Romanian Revolution...
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    leadership made up of Nicolae Ceaușescu as general secretary, Chivu Stoica as president and Ion Gheorghe Maurer as Premier. Ceaușescu removed rivals such as...
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  • December 1989, when the Ceaușescu regime was overthrown. Stoian was arrested and sentenced to 14 years. He was pardoned by President Ion Iliescu and released...
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    Romanian) Alex Mihai Stoenescu, "Triumful democrației și judecarea lui Ceaușescu", in Jurnalul Național, December 14, 2007 Neag, Mirela; Luțac, Răzvan;...
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    member of the Romanian Academy. Mănescu stayed close to Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena Ceaușescu up until the Romanian Revolution of 1989. He left the Central...
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    căderea lui Nicolae Ceaușescu". Europa FM. April 17, 2019. "Radu Câmpeanu, campanie mai mult afară decât în ţară". jurnalul.ro. "Ion Raţiu – candidatul...
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  • Burtică [ro] Scarlat Callimachi Emil Calmanovici Ion Călugăru Elena Ceaușescu Ilie Ceaușescu Marin Ceaușescu Nicu Ceaușescu Dumitru Cernicica Iosif Chișinevschi Mihai...
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    Ceauşescu, who was in charge of party organization and appointments. After the death of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej in March 1965, Verdeț helped Ceaușescu...
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    office of president was created in 1974, when communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu elevated the presidency of the State Council to a fully fledged executive...
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    implementation of domestic and foreign policy. Nicolae Ceaușescu (Politician) 1971, 1978, and 1988 Ion Gheorghe Maurer (Politician) 1972 Chivu Stoica (Politician)...
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    War II Ion Barbu (born 1977), footballer Marin Ceaușescu (1916–1989), economist and diplomat, the older brother of Nicolae Nicolae Ceaușescu (1918–1989)...
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