Nicolae Ceaușescu facts for kids
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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 |
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Preceded by | Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej |
Succeeded by | Party abolished |
7th President of Romania | |
In office 9 December 1967 – 22 December 1989 |
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Preceded by | Chivu Stoica |
Succeeded by | Ion Iliescu |
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Born | Scorniceşti, Olt, Romania |
26 January 1918
Died | 25 December 1989 Târgovişte, Dâmboviţa, Romania |
(aged 71)
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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Ceaușescu meeting with North Korean President Kim Il-sung in 1971
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Ceaușescu in a meeting with Robert Mugabe in 1976
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Ceaușescu with Jimmy Carter during a visit in Washington, D.C. in 1978
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Communist leaders Nicolae Ceaușescu of Romania (left) and Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union in 1985
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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
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His successor, Ion Iliescu, and Nicolae Ceaușescu in 1976