Recalling the last days of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, raging from a balcony at mocking crowds, TK News’ Matt Taibbi explains: “Even in the face of the gravest danger, a certain kind of ruler ...
The presidential plane of late Romanian communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu is going under the hammer. The Rombac 1-11, which was used for the dictator’s official flights between 1986 and 1989, is to ...
There might have been no communist regime, outside of the Soviet Union, that was more savage than that of Nicolae Ceausescu. He led Romania from 1965 until 1989, creating a personality cult around his ...
As a three-term president, he guided the country toward democracy, but he was called an authoritarian at heart and accused of brutality during the revolt that put him in power. By Dan Bilefsky and ...
Romanian expatriate Andrei Ujica spent four years combing through the national film and television archives of his homeland to assemble this epic documentary, which uses official images of communist ...
A rare Romanian-produced plane and an Iranian-made car that once belonged to dictator Nicolae Ceausescu sold for many times their starting price at an auction on May 27. Now their owners need to ...
More than a thousand people were killed in what became Europe’s bloodiest anti-communist uprising and would topple Communist president Nicolae Ceaușescu.
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A devoted aide of ex-Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu who was sent to quell protests that sparked the 1989 revolution has died. He was 87. Emil Bobu died from a heart attack ...
CANNES (Hollywood Reporter) - "The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu," a fresh-from-the-laboratory documentary on the former Romanian dictator, is informative and -- especially in its last hour -- ...
14 May 2014, 17:36 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu // Known to be the leader of one of the most brutal and repressive Communist regimes, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was far from being an actual ...