Ceausescu is dead, long live Iliescu. In short, nothing may be changed in Romania beyond the name of the dictator, Ion Iliescu for Nicolae Ceausescu. This suspicion has been growing for a long ...

„Romania libera” a intrat, in exclusivitate, in posesia unui numar insemnat de note si de declaratii despre revolutia din decembrie 1989, luate la cald, in lunile ianuarie-februarie 1990. Declaratiile ...

» Pe 24 decembrie 1989, la 20 de ani dupa vizita dvs. la Bucuresti, la o zi inainte de executia lui Ceausescu, secretarul de stat american James Baker a spus ca SUA nu au obiectii in cazul in care ...

The government set up to run revolution-torn Romania said Monday it had executed ousted President Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife after secretly trying the two for committing ”particularly grave ...

First, Ceausescu continued to run a rigidly hard-line communist state at home. Second, Romania, unlike Hungary or Czechoslovakia, is not strategically important, and Ceausescu`s mild apostasy ...

Decades after the bloody overthrow of Nicolae Ceausescu, tourism based on landmarks from Romania's communist era has become a thriving industry. BUCHAREST -- Christian Scutariu laughs when asked ...

BUCHAREST, Romania – A Romanian auction house on Wednesday sold memorabilia belonging to former Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu to mark what would have been his 100th birthday. The "Golden ...

This undated handout picture, provided by IMAR released on Monday, March 24, 2014, shows pieces of furniture crafted for communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in Arad, Romania. Now IMAR, a company ...

By the late 1980s, instead of Christmas, the most festive day in Romania had become Ceausescu’s birthday. Double-click/tap, drag, or use the slider below each image to fade between then and now.

Romania’s new leader after Mr. Ceausescu’s capture and execution was Ion Iliescu, a Communist apparatchik who served two terms as Romania’s first post-Communist president.

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The Palace of Spring, the official residence of Nicolae Ceausescu, has opened its gilded doors to the public more than two decades after the dictator and his wife were ...