Nicolae Ceaușescu
Nicolae Ceauşescu | |
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| General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party | |
| In office 22 March 1965 – 22 December 1989 | |
| Preceded by | Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej |
| Succeeded by | Party abolished |
| 7th President of Romania | |
| In office 9 December 1967 – 22 December 1989 | |
| Preceded by | Chivu Stoica |
| Succeeded by | Ion Iliescu |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 January 1918 Scorniceşti, Olt, Romania |
| Died | 25 December 1989 (aged 71) Târgovişte, Dâmboviţa, Romania |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Political party | Communist Party of Romania |
| Spouse(s) | Elena Ceaușescu |
| Children | Valentin Ceauşescu, Zoia Ceauşescu, Nicu Ceauşescu |
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Nicolae Ceauşescu (pronounced [ni.koˈla.e tʃa.uˈʃes.ku]; 26 January 1918 – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian communist dictator from 1965 until 1989. After the Romanian Revolution of 1989 he was deposed, tried and publicly executed by a firing squad along with his wife Elena Ceaușescu. He had been the only Communist dictator of Eastern Europe who had been charged for crimes against humanity and genocide during the revolutions of 1989. As of 2024, his execution was the last one on Romanian soil.[1][2][3]
Nicolae Ceausescu died in 1989 during the Romanian Revolution of 1989.
Nicolae Ceaușescu Media
Ceaușescu, at age 15, detained at Doftana prison, 1933
Ceaușescu and other Communists at a public meeting in Colentina, welcoming the Red Army as it entered Bucharest on 30 August 1944
Ceaușescu with Deng Xiaoping and Leonid Brezhnev in 1965
Ceaușescu with Indira Gandhi during his visit to India in 1969
Nicolae Ceaușescu condemning the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968
Ceaușescu with Kim Il Sung of North Korea in 1978. In reforming the state, Ceaușescu sought to emulate Juche and Maoist ideas
Propaganda poster in Bucharest, 1986. By the 1970s, the Ceaușescus had developed a personality cult
Ceaușescu with Hafez al-Assad during a 1974 state visit to Syria, which was ruled by the Assad family from 1970 to 2024
Ceaușescu in a meeting with Robert Mugabe in 1976
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References
- ↑ The abolition of capital punishment in Europe. www.capitalpunishmentuk.org. Retrieved 2021-01-21.
- ↑ East, Roger. Revolution and Change in Central and Eastern Europe: Revised Edition (in en) (2016-10-06)Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4742-8748-7.
- ↑ Ceauşescu, între legendă şi adevăr: data naşterii şi alegerea numelui de botez (2018-06-12). Retrieved 2021-05-07.