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Elena was born in c. 1464–1466. Her parents were Stephen III ("the Great"), the sovereign prince of Moldavia, and his first (or second) wife Princess Evdochia of Kiev. [4] [5] Negotiations to marry her to Ivan Ivanovich ("the Young"), heir to the throne of Moscow, began in the late 1470s. [5] Elena married Ivan the Young on 12 January 1483 ...
Contains records related to criminal investigations into war crimes and enemy collaboration in Moldova and Transnistria. The records refer to the Jewish mass extermination on the territory of the Republic of Moldavia and Ukraine during World War Second (1939-1945) System of arrangement
Elena of Serbia 1530 four children: Illegitimate son of Stephen the Great. Stephen V Locust: 21 September 1538 – 20 December 1540 Chiajna before 1540 two children: Grandson of Stephen the Great. Alexandru Cornea the Evil: 21 December 1540 – 9/16 February 1541 Unmarried: Son of Bogdan III. Regency of Elena of Serbia (2/3 September 1546 - 30 ...
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Elena Voloshanka Stefanovna of Moldavia , was a Moldavian royal and daughter of Stephen III, who became Crown Princess of Grand Duchy of Moscow by her marriage to Ivan the Young. Elena married Ivan the Young in 1483, giving birth to Prince Dmitry Ivanovich. After the death of her spouse in 1490, her son was appointed the next heir to the throne. She actively participated in politics at court ...
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On 22 December 1989, during the Romanian Revolution, Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu left the Central Committee building in Bucharest by helicopter toward Snagov, from where they left soon afterwards towards Pitești. Vasile Maluțan, the helicopter pilot, claimed to be in danger from anti-aircraft fire, so he landed on the Bucharest–Târgoviște road, nea...
As the new authorities heard the news of their apprehending from General Andrei Kemenici, the commander of the army unit, they began to discuss what to do with the Ceaușescus. Victor Stănculescu, who was Ceaușescu's last defence minister before going over to the revolution, wanted a quick execution, as did Gelu Voican Voiculescu. Ion Iliescu, Roman...
The charges were published in Monitorul Oficialthe day after the execution: 1. Genocide – over 60,000 victims 2. Subversion of state power by organising armed actions against the people and state power. 3. Offence of destruction of public property by destroying and damaging buildings, explosions in cities, etc. 4. Undermining the national economy. ...
The morning of the trial, prominent lawyer Nicu Teodorescu was having Christmas breakfast with his family when he was telephoned by an aide to Iliescu, and asked by the National Salvation Front to be the Ceaușescus' defence counsel. He replied that it would be "an interesting challenge". Teodorescu met the couple for the first time in the Târgovișt...
At 5:30 a.m. on 25 December, the two were taken by an armoured personnel carrier to the garrison command office where the trial would take place. After the medical visits, they were brought into the improvised courtroom. The trial of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu was very brief, lasting approximately one hour. Ceaușescu defended himself by arguing th...
The Ceaușescus were executed at 2:50 p.m. local time at Military Unit UM 01417 from Târgoviște on 25 December 1989. The execution was carried out by a firing squad consisting of eight paratroop regiment soldiers brought in by two helicopters from the Boteni base: Captain Ionel Boeru, Sergeant-Major Georghin Octavian and Dorin-Marian Cîrlan, and fiv...
After the execution, the bodies were covered with canvas. The Ceaușescus' corpses were taken to Bucharest and buried in Ghencea Cemeteryon 30 December 1989. The bodies were exhumed for identification and reburied in 2010.Groups of Ceaușescu supporters visit to place flowers on the grave, with large numbers of pensioners gathering on 26 January, Nic...
The hasty trial and the images of the dead Ceaușescus were videotaped and the footage promptly released in numerous Western countries two days after the execution.Later that day, it was also shown on Romanian television.
In 2009 Valentin Ceaușescu, elder son of the Ceaușescus, argued that the revolutionary forces should have killed his parents when they had arrested them on 22 December since they did not need any trial. After making vague comments about the incident, Ion Iliescu stated that it was "quite shameful, but necessary". In a similar vein, Stănculescu told...
On 1 March 1990, Colonel Gică Popa, who had presided over the trial and been promoted to General, was found dead in his office. His death was ruled a suicide. The Ceaușescus were the last people to be executed in Romania before the abolition of capital punishmenton 7 January 1990. In December 2018, Iliescu, former Deputy Prime Minister Gelu Voican ...
Igor Cas,u. The fate of the victims of political repression and mass terror under Stalin (and Lenin) is an under- researched topic in Moldovan and post- Soviet historiography.
Dec 26, 1989 · Bucharest Radio said she and her husband were put on trial secretly and executed Monday for genocide and other crimes against Romania. Elena Ceausescu was born in Petresti, a village in...
