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Nicolae Ceaușescu (/ tʃ aʊ ˈ ʃ ɛ s k uː / chow-SHESK-oo, Romanian: [nikoˈla.e tʃe̯a.uˈʃesku] ⓘ, 26 January [O.S. 13 January] 1918 – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian communist politician and statesman.
- Constantin Ion ParhonPetru Groza
May 10, 2024 · Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (born Nov. 8, 1901, Bârlad, Rom.—died March 19, 1965, Bucharest) was the longtime head of the Romanian Communist Party, prime minister (1952–55), and president of Romania’s State Council (1961–65).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Nicolae Ceaușescu (left), President of the Socialist Republic of Romania from 1974, also General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party since 1965, and his wife Elena Ceaușescu (right), were executed following trial on 25 December 1989.
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May 10, 2024 · Nicolae Ceauşescu, (born Jan. 26, 1918, Scorniceşti, Rom.—died Dec. 25, 1989, Târgovişte), Romanian politician. Prominent in the Romanian Communist Party, in 1965 he succeeded Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej as the party’s leader. In 1967 he became head of state and in 1974 president of Romania.
Nicolae Ceaușescu was a Romanian communist politician and statesman. He was the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and the second and last communist leader of Romania.
- Constantin Ion ParhonPetru Groza
Dec 24, 2014 · 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...
Nicolae and Elsa Ceaușescu were the last people to be executed by the Romanian state. The death penalty, along with the regime he had ruled over for twenty-four years was abolished in the great wave of revolutions and reforms that swept across central and eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s.
