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[[Image:Ceausescu.jpg|right|thumb|Newspaper headline of Ceausesce's fall]]
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'''Nicolae Ceausescu''' was the [[Communist]] [[dictator]] of [[Romania]] from the late 1960s until his overthrow in 1989. He is most famous in the West for his [[totalitarian]] governance, personal extravagance, and for banning [[abortion]] in an effort to increase the Romanian population. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of Communism in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu was overthrown by a popular uprising. Within days of being overthrown, he and his wife were both executed by an impromptu military court on a wide variety of charges.
|name=Nicolae Ceausescu
|image=Ceausescu2.PNG
|birth_date=January 26, 1918
|birth_place=Scornicesti, Olt County, Kingdom of Romania
|death_date=December 25, 1989 (aged 71)
|death_place=Targoviste, Dambovita County, Socialist Republic of Romania
|religion=
|spouse=[[Elena Ceausescu]] (m.1946)
|children=
|alma_mater=
|party=
|office=President of Romania (from 1974)
|term_start=March 22, 1965
|term_end=December 22, 1989
|preceded=[[Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej]]
|succeeded=[[National Salvation Front Council]]
}}
'''Nicolae Ceausescu''' (January 26, 1918 - December 25, 1989) was the [[Stalinism|Stalinist]] [[Communist]] [[dictator]] of [[Romania]] from the late 1960s until his overthrow in 1989. He is most famous in the West for his [[totalitarian]] governance, personal extravagance, and for banning [[abortion]] in an effort to increase the Romanian population. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of Communism in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu was overthrown by a popular uprising. Within days of being overthrown, he and his wife were both executed by a biased, impromptu military court on a wide variety of charges.
[[Image:Ceausescu.jpg|left|thumb|Newspaper headline of Ceausesce's fall]]
During his rule, which lasted from 1967-1989, Ceausescu employed propaganda to create a cult of personality. These measures ranged from painting him as having a much larger role in Communist philosophy than he actually did to the purely cosmetic: Ceausescu's relatively small stature (at 5 foot 5 inches) was never emphasized. During his role, Ceausescu oppressed any political dissent by imprisoning and even killing political enemies. He did take a very independent route in terms of relations with the [[USSR]], most notably supporting the Czechs in the Prague Spring, when he strongly condemned Soviet intervention there. Ceausescu initiated a series of disastrous economic policies that led to widespread poverty among the Romanian people, while he lived in a lavish palace that remains one of the biggest ever built to this day. He was overthrown and, along with his wife [[Elena Ceausescu|Elena]], was executed on [[Christmas Day]] 1989 without a real trial, after revolutions had toppled Communist dictatorships in other Eastern European countries, such as [[Albania]], [[Hungary]], [[Poland]], [[Czechoslovakia]], [[Bulgaria]], and [[East Germany]].
==See also==
*[[Joseph Biden]]
*[[Justin Trudeau]]
*[[Erich Honecker]]
*[[Konstantin Chernenko]]
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