That moment marked the start of the Romanian revolution in Bucharest. The next day, Ceausescu fled the capital. He was subsequently captured and executed three days later, on Christmas Day ...

That moment marked the start of the Romanian revolution in Bucharest. The next day, Ceausescu fled the capital. He was subsequently captured and executed three days later, on Christmas Day, in ...

In the early years of the twilight struggle against the Soviet Union—as Joseph Stalin solidified control over Central and Eastern Europe—the United States established Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty ...

Despite the near-unanimous approval from the Romanian people of the execution ... a protégé of Romania’s Stalinist dictator Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Ceaușescu quickly ascended through the ...

Spending a billion dollars to construct a building is no longer the exception. There are many multi-billion-dollar buildings ...

Construction started in 1984 at the behest of Nicolae Ceaușescu, who was Romania's communist dictator at the time. Five years later, he and his wife were executed in the Romanian Revolution.

Alongside these stories of heroes, Kyd adds the cautionary tale of Nicolae Ceaușescu, the brutal Romanian dictator whose lavish lifestyle belied the economic privations of his people and who (with his ...

Mugabe is the first foreigner to have an honorary knighthood withdrawn since Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989, the day before his execution. Until recently some officials had reportedly ...