Romanian revolution
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The Romanian revolution was a period of violent civil unrest in the Socialist Republic of Romania during December 1989 as a part of the revolutions of 1989 that occurred in several countries around th
APCs and Miliția on the Magheru Boulevard in Bucharest during the 1989 Revolution
Demonstration in Timișoara
People detained after 22 December 1989 in Timișoara
T-55 tank in front of the Timișoara Opera House
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
Romanian revolution
…spread throughout the country, ultimately culminating in the drumhead trial and execution of longtime Romanian Communist Party (PCR) General Secretary Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena, and the end of 42 years of Communist rule in Romania. It was also the last removal of a Marxist–Leninist government in a Warsaw…
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