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    Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu presided over the most pervasive cult of personality within the Eastern Bloc. Inspired by the personality cult surrounding...
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  • The trial and execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu were held on 25 December 1989 in Târgoviște, Romania. The trial was conducted by an Extraordinary...
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    Stalin's cult of personality Song of General Kim Il-sung Mao Zedong's cult of personality Xi Jinping's cult of personality Nicolae Ceaușescu's cult of personality...
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    National communism in Romania (category Socialist Republic of Romania)
    revolution. Part of the national mythology was Nicolae Ceaușescu's cult of personality and the idealization of Romanian history, known in Romanian historiography...
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    President named Nicolae Carpathia, whose cult of personality, strong-arm tactics, and name, are similar to those of Nicolae Ceaușescu. Report during the...
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    politician who was the wife of Nicolae Ceaușescu, General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party and leader of the Socialist Republic of Romania. She was also...
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    personality Joseph Stalin's cult of personality Adolf Hitler's cult of personality Nicolae Ceaușescu's cult of personality Accelerator-in-Chief The paper...
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    Cenaclul Flacăra (category Culture of Romania)
    entertainment, promoted Nicolae Ceaușescu's cult of personality and the ideology of National Communism. Cenaclul Flacăra organized 1,615 shows of music, poetry...
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  • stated that Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu presided over "a cult of personality that has equaled, or even surpassed, those of Stalin's Russia, Mao's China...
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    kingship Cult of personality Divine right of kings Emperor of Japan Euhemerism God complex King-Emperor Mandate of Heaven Nicolae Ceausescu's cult of personality...
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    hours per day, between 20:00 and 22:00, most of which were dedicated to Nicolae Ceaușescu's cult of personality, along with his wife Elena; with an exception...
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    1980s austerity policy in Romania (category Socialist Republic of Romania)
    Biography Communism Romania Politics Nicolae Ceaușescu's cult of personality Economy of the Socialist Republic of Romania Dăianu, p. 393 Bacon, p. 374...
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    General Secretary Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena, and the end of 42 years of Communist rule in Romania. It was also the last removal of a Marxist–Leninist...
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    Joseph Stalin's cult of personality became a prominent feature of Soviet popular culture. Historian Archie Brown sets the celebration of Stalin's 50th birthday...
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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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    Ilie Purcaru (category Writers of young adult literature)
    surrounding his life by making repeated contributions to Nicolae Ceaușescu's cult of personality. This standing in national-communist literature came alongside...
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    North Korea–Romania relations (category Bilateral relations of Romania)
    2003, ISBN 0-520-23747-1), p. 2412. Minutes of the Romanian Politburo Meeting Concerning Nicolae Ceaușescu's Visit to China, North Korea, Mongolia, and...
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    Renaissance Front). His personality cult shared some features with Communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu's own personality cult that took root three decades later...
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    Palace was ordered by Nicolae Ceaușescu (1918–1989), the president of Communist Romania and the second of two long-ruling heads of state in the country...
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    Decree 770 (category Demographics of Romania)
    Decree 770 was a decree of the communist government of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, signed in 1967. It restricted abortion and contraception, and...
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    in Romania leaving the country by 1987. Ceaușescu also started becoming the subject of a vast personality cult, his portrait on every street and hanging...
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    to brew a persuasive cult of personality. Over the years, the PCR massively increased to become entirely submitted to Ceaușescu's will. From the 1960s...
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    grew in membership but decreased in importance due to Ceaușescu's increasing personality cult. It was used in parallel with the rarer cârmaci ("helmsman")...
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    informers for a country with a population of 22 million by 1985. The Securitate under Nicolae Ceaușescu was one of the most brutal secret police forces in...
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    July Theses (category Speeches by Nicolae Ceaușescu)
    (Romanian: Tezele din iulie) was a speech delivered by Nicolae Ceaușescu to the executive committee of the Romanian Communist Party (PCR) on 6 July 1971....
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    Romania during the totalitarian rule of Nicolae Ceaușescu after the July Theses in 1971. Because of Ceaușescu's extensive secret police (the Securitate) and...
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    the period, which marked the final stage of Nicolae Ceaușescu's cult of personality, a cumulative hundreds of students participated in the Daciada and...
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  • De-Stalinization (category Politics of the Soviet Union)
    his 1956 secret speech "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences", which denounced Stalin's cult of personality and the Stalinist political system...
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    Dacianism (category Historiography of Romania)
    regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu, its origin in Romanian scholarship dates back more than a century. The term refers to perceived aggrandizing of Dacian and...
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    Stalinism (redirect from Era of Stalinism)
    of agriculture, intensification of class conflict, a cult of personality, and subordination of the interests of foreign communist parties to those of...
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