Thirty years ago, Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were executed by firing squad after a hasty one-hour show trial. The pair had fled from power in a helicopter after a popular ...

There were many arrests. On 20 December with Nicolae Ceausescu on a government visit to Iran, Elena Ceausescu despatched her prime minister Constantin Dascalescu to Timisoara to take control.

Astăzi a devenit muzeu. The mansion where Nicolae Ceausescu lived with his wife, Elena, during the 24 years he ruled Romania was shrouded in secrecy. It is now a museum. The Communist-era ...

For all their crimes, Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu were condemned to death and all their belongings are to be confiscated,” the announcement said. ”The sentence is legal and has already been ...

Elena largely remains calm while glowering ... While Andrei Ujica’s vastly superior “The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu” requires even more foreknowledge of his subject’s crimes ...

BUCHAREST, Romania - The mystery of where former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, were buried moved closer to resolution Wednesday after forensic scientists dug up their ...

The key to “The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu” is the word ... bookended by the well-known interrogation of Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, just before their executions in December ...