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Nicolae Ceausescu

July 2023

  • The Delta of Bucharest Press publicity film still supplied by PR

    The Delta of Bucharest review – Ceaușescu-era brutalities healed by urban oasis

    Eva Pervolovici movingly juxtaposes the tragic history of women held in a Romanian communist jail with the beautiful wetlands area that the site is today

December 2021

  • Elena Ceaușescu

    ‘A moral issue to correct’: the long tail of Elena Ceaușescu’s fraudulent scientific work

    Nicolae Ceaușescu’s Romanian communist regime hailed his wife as an eminent chemistry researcher, though she had no genuine qualifications. But her name lives on in academic journals, and British institutions have yet to retract honours bestowed on her

December 2019

  • Romanian demonstrators gathered in front of the headquarters of the Romanian Communist Party in Bucharest during the 1989 anti-communist revolution, 22 December 1989.

    From the Guardian archive
    Romania 1989: Ceaușescu goes down in blood - archive, 1989

    23 December 1989: Nicolae Ceaușescu’s overthrow follows a week of carnage in which thousands of protesters against his regime were killed in cold blood

October 2019

  • Francois Duvalier<br>Haitian Dictator Francois Duvalier carrying gun as he rides through Port Au Prince streets. (Photo by Michael Rougier//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

    Book of the day
    How to Be a Dictator by Frank Dikötter review – the cult of personality

    Charisma, a lust for power, an absence of principles … what links Mao, Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler and other 20th-century dictators?

January 2019

  • John Harris

    If we must look to the past, let’s make it 1989 – a year of transformation

    John Harris
    From eastern Europe to the dancefloors of Britain, a new optimism emerged, says Guardian columnist John Harris

February 2018

  • Abi Morgan

    Abi Morgan: ‘Women can be as violent, mercurial and complex as men’

    The writer recalls the anger that fuelled her early play Splendour – and reveals she is directing her rage into a drama about the abuses of power in Hollywood

December 2017

  • Michael I. Rumänien - 1940<br>(Eingeschränkte Rechte für bestimmte redaktionelle Kunden in Deutschland. Limited rights for specific editorial clients in Germany.) *25.10.1921-König von Rumänien 1927-1930 und 1940-1947Portrait in Galauniformerschienen September 1940 (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

    Michael I of Romania obituary

    Former monarch and last surviving head of state from the second world war

March 2016

  • Lady Gaga at Super Bowl 50.

    Reports of my death
    Clive James: Lady Gaga’s Star-Spangled Banner had oomph – then she added a woo-hoo-hoo

    To have the authentic gift of vulgarity, you need to have a talent for spoiling your own effects

March 2015

  • Posters in Bucharest auction of Communist memorabilia

    Auction shows interest in ex-Romanian dictator Ceausescu persists

    Ceausescu’s party card sells for seven times estimate in Bucharest sale of Communist-era memorabilia

December 2014

  • Ionel Boeru at The Palace of Parliament, Bucharest, Romania.

    ‘I’m still nervous,’ says soldier who shot Nicolae Ceausescu

    Paratrooper Ionel Boyeru volunteered for a mystery mission, only to discover it was the execution of the Romanian dictator

July 2014

  • Nicolae Ceausescu

    The real Ceausescu

    Letters: Ceausescu is confused here with a previous Romanian leader, Gheorghiu Dej, who did indeed kill and torture thousands in the early 50s

November 2012

  • Herta Müller

    A life in ...
    Herta Müller: a life in books

    'Ceausescu was mad and he made half of Romania mad. I'm mad because of him'

April 2012

  • Georgina Harding

    Author, author
    Georgina Harding: my journey through Romanian history

    'What a challenge, to take a story through this time. If not to tell the whole history, then to take a line through it'

January 2012

  • Robert Mugabe, who was stripped of his knighthood in 2008

    Goodwin joins Mugabe, Mussolini and Ceausescu in gang of disgraced figures

  • Items which belonged to Nicolae Ceausescu, on display before an auction in Bucharest, Romania

    Nicolae Ceausescu auction - in pictures

July 2010

  • The grave in western Bucharest said to contain Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu

    Romania exhumes bodies in row over fate of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu

  • nicolae ceausescu tomb

    Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu exhumed for identity tests

July 2009

  • Nicolae Ceausescu executed

    "It was impossible to have a revolution in Romania. So it had to be staged."

    Christmas Day 1989: Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena are shot dead by firing squad. Ed Vulliamy returns to Bucharest, to report on the aftermath of the most mysterious downfall of the Cold War

December 1999

  • Ceausescu, come back - you'realmost forgiven

    Alexandra is the face of Romania's communist Christmas Past. For two years the elderly Bucharest woman has tended the most visited grave in the country - that of Nicolae Ceausescu, the dictator whose Christmas Day killing 10 years ago ended the country's revolution and heralded democracy.

August 1999

  • Ceausescu sale: Everything must go

    Romania will clear out the cupboards of its dark past next week when hundreds of items including bric-a-brac, cars and designer clothes belonging to the late Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife go under the hammer in Bucharest.
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