The propaganda machine presented Ceausescu as the main architect of both domestic and foreign policies, a visionary, and guarantor of a Romanian path to socialism. Ceausescu's cult of personality ...

Ceausescu returned from Iran as western media ... Usually they have been used to instil fear or for propaganda purposes, but the filming of the Ceausescus’ execution was – probably ...

The counter-propaganda of those currently in power is very similar to that of Ceausescu. During his last few days, the tyrant declared that “foreign agencies” are fomenting and guiding the ...

Yet in many respects Ceausescu turns out to be as much the author of this brilliant documentary as the director, Andrei Ujica, who waded through more than 1,000 hours of filmed state propaganda ...

As Romanians head to the polls in a pivotal presidential election, the country's struggle to come to terms with its communist past is taking on new urgency .

We want to bridge divides to reach everyone. The mystery of where former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were buried has moved closer to resolution after forensic scientists ...

But the situation was much worse when British schoolteacher Monica McDaid saw it for the first time in 1990 - just a few months after Ceausescu's downfall. "What I saw was beyond belief," she said.

BUCHAREST, Romania — For Romania’s fast-disappearing Jewish minority, the overthrow of Nicolae Ceausescu represents something of a mixed blessing. In Ceausescu’s 24 years in power ...

Ceausescu was also known for the ruthless way in which he stifled dissent. His Securitate secret police were believed to have 700,000 informers in the Balkan nation of 22 million.

The presidential plane of late Romanian communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu is going under the hammer. The Rombac 1-11, which was used for the dictator’s official flights between 1986 and 1989 ...