Shock poll claims Romanians are nostalgic for communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu: Who was he? A recent survey reveals 66.2% ...

Iliescu has a complex legacy. He will be remembered as the country’s first democratic leader, and for his brutal crackdown ...

Nevertheless, Nicolae Ceaușescu enjoyed some political respect on the international scene until the early 1980s. The West saw him as an autonomous voice vis-à-vis Moscow within the Warsaw Pact.

Ceaușescu reigned over Romania as President from 1965 until he was overthrown in 1989. Under his brutal regime, thousands of people were killed, and the country was plunged into economic hardship.

Of all the revolutions that swept across Eastern Europe 30 years ago in the winter of 1989, the overthrow of Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena, was the bloodiest. But few communist regimes had ...

The Queen once went to extreme measures to avoid a controversial house guest, hiding in the foliage of her Buckingham Palace gardens. In 1978, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu travelled to the ...

Former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu's 1973 Mercedes-Benz is heading to Bonhams towards a charity that benefits the victims of his regime.

Ceaușescu was also so fond of gunning down bears that he gave himself special hunting privileges during his 1965 to 1989 reign. After he had depleted the bear population in his own private ...

Of all the revolutions that swept across Eastern Europe 30 years ago in the winter of 1989, the overthrow of Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena, was the bloodiest. But few communist regimes had ...