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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.
- Constantin Ion ParhonPetru Groza
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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 Exceptional Military Tribunal, a drumhead court-martial created at the request of a newly formed group called the National Salvation Front.
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Nicolae Ceausescu (1918-1989) was the communist dictator of Romania for 24 years, from the mid 1960s until his removal in 1989. Under his rule, Romanians endured one of the most oppressive Stalinist regimes of the Cold War.
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.
