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Video of Nicolae Ceaușescu's final speech in Republican Square; Anonymous Photo Essay about the Romanian Revolution of 1989; TV broadcasts from 22 and 23 December 1989; Live TV Broadcast from 22 December 1989 on Hungarian TV (with English subtitles) The Romanian Revolution of December 1989; Academic Article on Feature Films about 1989
25 December 1989: Convicted: Nicolae Ceaușescu and Elena Ceaușescu: Charges: Genocide – over 60,000 victims; Subversion of state power by organising armed actions against the people and state power. Destruction of public property by destroying and damaging buildings, explosions in cities, etc. Undermining the national economy.
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.
Pîrvulescu was excluded from the party, but, in 1989, together with other five party veterans signed the Letter of the Six, an open letter which was a left-wing critique of Ceaușescu. The Romanian Revolution of December 1989 began as an act of dissent, as people began supporting Hungarian pastor László Tőkés , who was about to be evicted ...
Romanian flag with a hole in the center, as used in 1989; photo made during an anti-government demonstration in Bucharest in September 2006 1989 marked the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe . A mid-December protest in Timișoara against the eviction of a Hungarian minister ( László Tőkés ) grew into a country-wide protest against the ...
Six retired senior figures in the Romanian Communist Party, including Gheorghe Apostol and Silviu Brucan, write an open letter to Nicolae Ceaușescu.They call for the relaxation of Ceaușescu's demand for increased exports, the release of more food for internal consumption, the investment in new technology for the industries, the halt of a vastly expensive program of prestige projects of ...
If you watch the two videos on Youtube you will see the fairly lengthy interruption in the speech caused by a disturbance that has not to date been properly understood or documented; Ceausescu attempting to calm the crowd; order being restored; Ceausescu confidently finishing his speech to an enthusiastic, flag-waving crowd.
The Armed Forces would be renamed in 1989 following the Romanian Revolution, during which officers and personnel of the military defected to the side of the opposition after a public speech by Ceaușescu broadcast on state television [16] and a firing squad provided by paratroop regiment personnel Captain Ionel Boeru, Sergeant-Major Georghin ...