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  2. Trial and execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu - Wikipedia

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    The trial and execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu were held on 25 December 1989 in Târgoviște, Romania. [1] The trial was conducted by an Extraordinary Military Tribunal, a drumhead court-martial created at the request of a newly formed group called the National Salvation Front.

  3. Nicolae Ceaușescu - Wikipedia

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    Nicolae Ceaușescu (/ tʃ aʊ ˈ ʃ ɛ s k uː / chow-SHESK-oo, Romanian: [nikoˈla.e tʃe̯a.uˈʃesku] ⓘ; 26 January [O.S. 13 January] 1918 – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian politician who was the second and last communist leader of Romania, serving as the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989.

  4. Romanian revolution - Wikipedia

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    In footage of the trial, Nicolae Ceaușescu is seen answering the ad hoc tribunal judging him and referring to some of its members—among them Army General Victor Atanasie Stănculescu and future Romanian Secret Service head Virgil Măgureanu—as "traitors". In the same video, Ceaușescu dismisses the "tribunal" as illegitimate and demands ...

  5. Beatlemania Is Back in ‘TWST – Things We Said Today ... - AOL

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    John! Paul! George! Ringo! In the summer of 1965, it was all about the Beatles, readying for their gig at New York’s Shea Stadium. But “TWST – Things We Said Today,” premiering at the ...

  6. Romania indicts ex-president Iliescu for 1989 revolution killings

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    Prosecutors said that using statements and television the group engaged in "broad and complex misleading activities of diversion and misinformation" after Ceausescu fled the capital on Dec. 22, 1989.

  7. 1980s-1990s Romanian orphans phenomenon - Wikipedia

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    Under Nicolae Ceaușescu, both abortion and contraception were forbidden. Ceaușescu believed that population growth would lead to economic growth. [1] In October 1966, Decree 770 was enacted, which banned abortion except in cases in which the mother was over forty years of age or already had four children in care. [2]

  8. Romanian police hunt man who started fire inside parliament

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    It was built in the 1980s on the orders of late communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, who demolished large swathes of Bucharest's historic centre to make room for it.

  9. Chuck Norris vs Communism - Wikipedia

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    Chuck Norris vs Communism is a 2015 Romanian–British documentary film written and directed by Ilinca Călugăreanu. The film is about the illegal importation of American action and religious films on VHS cassettes to Romania in the late 1970s and 1980s, which the filmmakers believe contributed to the fall of the Nicolae Ceaușescu's Communist dictatorship.