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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 (1918-01-26)26 January 1918
Scorniceşti, Olt, Romania
Died 25 December 1989(1989-12-25) (aged 71)
Târgovişte, Dâmboviţa, Romania
Nationality Romanian
Political party Communist Party of Romania
Spouse(s) Elena Ceauşescu
Children Valentin Ceauşescu, Zoia Ceauşescu, Nicu Ceauşescu

Nicolae Ceauşescu ( 26 January 1918 – 25 December 1989) was the President of Romania from 1965 until 1989. After the Romanian Revolution of 1989 he was deposed, tried and publicly executed. 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.

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  • 008.Portret Nicolae Ceausescu. (1936)

    Arrested in 1936 when he was 18 years old, Ceaușescu was imprisoned for two years at Doftana Prison for Communist activities.

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    Ceaușescu and other Communists at a public meeting in Colentina, welcoming the Red Army as it entered Bucharest on 30 August 1944

  • Ceausescu-Comisar-1954

    Ceaușescu holding a speech in 1954

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    Ceaușescu meeting with North Korean President Kim Il-sung in 1971

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    Ceaușescu in a meeting with Robert Mugabe in 1976

  • Ceausescu and Carter 2

    Ceaușescu with Jimmy Carter during a visit in Washington, D.C. in 1978

  • Personality Cult Romania 1986

    By the 1970s, the Ceaușescus had developed a personality cult

  • Ceausescu & Gorbachev 1985

    Communist leaders Nicolae Ceaușescu of Romania (left) and Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union in 1985

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    Nicolae Ceauşescu in 1986

  • Ceausescu, Nicolae

    Ceaușescu in 1988

  • Grave of Nicolae Ceausescu - Ghencea Civil Cemetery - Bucharest - Romania

    Ceaușescu's original grave, Ghencea Cemetery, Bucharest (photographed in 2007)

  • Ceaușescu Grave

    The current resting place of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu at Ghencea Cemetery (photographed in 2018). Note that Elena Ceaușescu's year of birth is incorrectly recorded as 1919; her actual year of birth is 1916.

  • Moldovan workers during Ceausescu visit (1972). (14549532742)

    Moldavian workers during Ceaușescu's visit to Soviet Moldavia in 1972

  • Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1987-0529-029, Berlin, Tagung Warschauer Pakt, Gruppenfoto

    Warsaw Pact leaders in 1987 from left to right: Husák of Czechoslovakia, Zhivkov of Bulgaria, Honecker of East Germany, Gorbachev of the Soviet Union, Ceaușescu, Jaruzelski of Poland and Kádár of Hungary

  • TimbruNicolaeCeausescu

    Stamp commemorating Ceaușescu's 70th birthday and 55 years of political activity, 1988

  • Ceausescu receiving the presidential sceptre 1974

    Ceaușescu receiving the presidential sceptre, 1974

  • Propaganda poster Ceausescu

    Propaganda poster, Bucharest 1986)

  • 019.Vacanta-pentrecuta-in-Moldova-1976 (1)

    His successor, Ion Iliescu, and Nicolae Ceaușescu in 1976

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