The fall of the Iron Curtain manifested itself violently 20 years ago in Romania, with the execution of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife. Two decades after, some of the key players in the ...

Nicolae Ceausescu ruled with an iron fist for 25 years until he was overthrown and executed on Christmas Day in 1989. A quarter-century after his ouster, the country is still dealing with his legacy.

On Sunday, Dec. 17, President Nicolae Ceausescu summoned top Communist Party officials across the country and, on closed-circuit TV, issued orders to kill. The night before, demonstrators had taken… ...

I n a rambling military and civilian cemetery in Bucharest’s Sector 6 you can find the graves of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu. Considering the ostentatious lifestyles of Romania’s former first ...

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 ...

The key to “The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu” is the word “autobiography.” Andrei Ujica’s extraordinarily powerful montage of newsreel footage is not a record of the Romanian ...

Grab your bags, it’s off to Romania’s hottest new tourist attraction: The military base where one of the Eastern bloc’s most brutal dictators, Nicolae Ceausescu, was executed in 1989.

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanians nostalgic for the communist era gathered Thursday at the grave of former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, who were tried and executed on Christmas Day ...

Nicolae Ceausescu, who was executed with his wife on Christmas day of 1989, was a maverick and despotic Rumanian Communist leader who pursued an independent course abroad and demanded slavish ...

The death of General Nicolae Plesita, a ruthless former chief of the dreaded Romanian Securitate, comes at a moment when former Eastern Bloc countries are preparing to celebrate 20 years since the ...

Nicolae Ceausescu, who was executed with his wife on Christmas day of 1989, was a maverick and despotic Rumanian Communist leader who pursued an independent course abroad and demanded slavish ...