When Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, were executed by firing squad on Christmas Day 1989, the event was documented with a handheld video camera. The footage is posted on ...

Docu begins and ends with death, bookended by the well-known interrogation of Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, just before their executions in December 1989. From this beginning, with the two ...

Ceausescu ran a ruthless police state that was ... they probably would not have killed him," Andrei said of his father's death. In the indictment against Parvulescu and Hodis, prosecutors in ...

He adds: Given that Ceausescu's regime routinely killed Romanians, "there was no other sentence possible for him than death." But when police in Targoviste brought the Ceausescus to then-Col.

Ceausescu began his leadership three days after the death of previous leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej in 1965, with a promise to dedicate his life to his people’s happiness and “elevate the ...

As Carlan recounts today, "Ceausescu looked at me, broke out in tears and shouted: 'Death to the traitors! History will avenge us.' Then he sang the 'Internationale'. He and his wife were pushed ...

the film “autobiography” begins with the funeral of Ceausescu’s predecessor, Gheorghe Georghiu-Dej, and footage of the tremendous public outpouring of grief that accompanied his death.

The death of General Nicolae Plesita ... Acting on orders from his boss, dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Plesita hired infamous Venezuelan-born terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, alias Carlos the ...

Docu begins and ends with death, bookended by the well-known interrogation of Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, just before their executions in December 1989. From this beginning, with the two ...

He adds: Given that Ceausescu's regime routinely killed Romanians, "there was no other sentence possible for him than death." Sponsor Message But when police in Targoviste brought the Ceausescus ...

shows that triumphs of movies like “The Death of Mr. Lazarescu” were not anomalies. Communist-era portraits of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, on view in an ...