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    Elena Ceaușescu (Romanian pronunciation: [eˈlena tʃe̯a.uˈʃesku]; born Lenuța Petrescu; 7 January 1916 – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian communist politician...
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  • Secretary Nicolae Ceaușescu, and his wife, Elena Ceaușescu. The main charge was genocide. Romanian state television announced that Nicolae Ceaușescu had been responsible...
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    Communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena. She was also known as Tovarășa Zoia (comrade Zoia). Zoia Ceaușescu studied at High School nr...
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    were additional sources of admiration for Ceaușescu. According to British journalist Edward Behr, Elena Ceaușescu allegedly bonded with Mao's wife, Jiang...
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    Ceaușescu and Elena Ceaușescu. Valentin Ceaușescu was born in Bucharest on 17 February 1948. His father, future President Nicolae Ceaușescu, was an active...
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    cult of personality was just focused on Ceaușescu himself. By the early 1980s, however, his wife, Elena Ceaușescu—one of the few spouses of a Communist...
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    politician who was the youngest child of Romanian leaders Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu. He was a close associate of his father's political regime and considered...
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    longtime Romanian Communist Party (PCR) General Secretary Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena, and the end of 42 years of Communist rule in Romania. It was...
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  • Nicolae Ceaușescu, who led Romania from 1965 to 1989, served as General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party. Ceaușescu had a large family, several...
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  • Nicolae Ceaușescu, the last Communist leader of Romania, but it may also refer to: Elena Ceaușescu, wife of Nicolae Ceaușescu Valentin Ceaușescu, Nicolae...
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  • (born 2001), Italian hurdler Elena Ceaușescu (1916–1989), wife of former Romanian head of state Nicolae Ceaușescu Elena Constantinescu (1925–2005), British...
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    1989, Stănculescu organized the trial and execution of Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena Ceaușescu. In 2008, Stănculescu and another general, former Interior...
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    Building, coming within a few meters of Ceaușescu himself; the Securitate did nothing to help him. Ceaușescu soon fled by helicopter from the rooftop...
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  • President and Communist Party General Secretary Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena Ceaușescu were sentenced to death by a kangaroo court consisting of...
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    singer Elena Ceaușescu, communist activist and wife of President Nicolae Ceaușescu Nicolae Ceaușescu, first President of Romania Nicu Ceaușescu, communist...
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  • Elena 'Nina' Iliescu (born 4 March 1930) is the wife of the 2nd President of Romania Ion Iliescu. She was the First Lady of Romania from 1989 to 1996...
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    by the Romanian Communist Party under the leadership of Nicolae Ceaușescu. Ceaușescu was impressed by the ideological mobilization and mass adulation...
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    Ceaușescu's speech of 21 August 1968 was a public address by Nicolae Ceaușescu, General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party and President of the...
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  • Puntea de Greci. The wife of communist Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, Elena Ceaușescu, was born there on 7 January 1916. "Populaţia rezidentă după grupa...
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    emancipation from the Soviet Union, it was greatly developed by Nicolae Ceaușescu, who began in 1971, through his July Theses manifesto, a national cultural...
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    them, Ceaușescu warned that "If you do not go back to work we'll have to stop pussyfooting around!" According to observers, "Down with Ceaușescu!" was...
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    progressively marginalized after Nicolae Ceaușescu emerged as Romania's ruler in 1965. Objecting to Ceaușescu's nationalism, he also had a notorious personal...
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  • Trial (1979) Claus von Bülow trials (1982–1985) Trial of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu (1989) Trial of Lyle and Erik Menéndez (1990) Trial of Imelda Romualdez...
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  • Socialist Republic of Romania prior to the execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu. He was tried for murder on 9 April 1986, before a 500-person auditorium...
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  • Borden Kit Pongetti - W.M.D. Defendant, Francesca, Marilyn Monroe, Elena Ceaușescu Tami Sagher - George Eliot, Greed Seductress, Barbara Bates, Penelope...
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  • Maurice Bishop, Jacqueline Creft, Willi Stoph, Nicolae Ceaușescu together with his wife Elena Ceaușescu, Lê Duẩn, Nikolay Krylov, Walter Ulbricht, Lin Biao...
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    Benone Sinulescu [ro]. In the early 1980s, due to a wish expressed by Elena Ceaușescu, who was jealous of Loghin's popularity, the latter was forbidden from...
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    were imposed in the Socialist Republic of Romania by President Nicolae Ceaușescu in order to pay out the external debt incurred by the state in the 1970s...
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  • Europe. From the 1980s she was banned from making foreign tours by Elena Ceaușescu. She then vanished into obscurity and died in anonymity and poverty...
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    opposition to Ceaușescu's rule while serving on the Committee. The Romanian Revolution began as a popular revolt in Timișoara. After Ceaușescu was overthrown...
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