Union of Communist Youth
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The Union of Communist Youth was the Romanian Communist Party's youth organisation. Like many Young Communist organisations, it was modelled after the Soviet Komsomol. It aimed to cultivate young cadr
8th Congress of the UTC, held in Bucharest in July 1965
1972 postage stamp commemorating the UTC's 50th anniversary
Union of Communist Youth manifesto against the National Renaissance Front and for "avoiding war", put out in Bessarabia in 1940, shortly before the occupation of the region by the Soviet Army
Members of Șoimii Patriei around 1983, standing beneath a portrait of Ceaușescu
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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…Communist International, it began to emerge as a mass movement in 1944, after the Red Army had entered Romania and the party became legal once again. Nicolae Ceaușescu was the First Secretary of the UTC from August 23, 1944, to June 1945. Beginning in 1948, the Romanian Workers' Party (PMR, as it was then called) began…
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