Ion Iliescu
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Ion Iliescu was a Romanian politician and engineer who served as the first and third President of Romania since the country's transition to democracy, from 1990 to 1996 and 2000 to 2004. Iliescu was a
Iliescu in 2004
Campaign poster, 1965
Iliescu in 1976 with Elena Ceaușescu
Iliescu (centre) with FSN members Dumitru Mazilu (left) and Petre Roman (right) on 23 December 1989, one day after the formation of the FSN
Nicolae Ceaușescu
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Nicolae Ceaușescu was a Romanian politician who was the second and last leader of Communist Romania as general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 until his overthrow and execution in
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…the Romanian Communist Party (PCR) in 1953 and became a member of its Central Committee in 1965. Beginning with 1971, he was gradually marginalised by Nicolae Ceaușescu. He had a leading role in the Romanian Revolution, becoming the country's president in December 1989. In May 1990, he became Romania's first freely…
Official portrait, 1965
Ceaușescu, at age 15, detained at Doftana prison, 1933
Ceaușescu giving a speech in 1954
Ceaușescu with Deng Xiaoping and Leonid Brezhnev in 1965