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[[File:Nicolae Ceaucescu 1978.jpg|right|300px||thumb|Nicolae Ceausescu, 1978.]]
[[File:Ceausescu2.PNG|right|200px||thumb|Nicolae Ceausescu, 1978.]]
'''Nicolae Ceausescu''' 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 an impromptu military court on a wide variety of charges.
'''Nicolae Ceausescu''' 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 an impromptu military court on a wide variety of charges.