Until 22 December 1989, Bucharest’s stolid Central Committee building had been an impenetrable seat of communist power for decades. Then, on that day, hundreds of ordinary Romanians armed only with ...

Teodor Maries had never seen anything like it: Romanian riot police were locking down central Bucharest, a speech by communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu had just been cut short by jeers and now a ...

I was 4 years old when I watched the execution of Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife by firing squad live on national television on Christmas day, 1989. The former Romanian dictator had been deposed amid ...

30 years after the fall of the Romanian dictator Ceausescu in 1989, we get a reconstruction of one of the most violent events during the fall of the communist regimes. The investigation exposes the ...

As a three-term president, he guided the country toward democracy, but he was called an authoritarian at heart and accused of brutality during the revolt that put him in power. By Dan Bilefsky and ...

BRASOV, Romania -- On Romanian Heroes' Day, Ileana Negru, a 66-year-old woman whose son Florin was just 12 when he was killed in the 1989 revolution, went to a mountain road outside the central city ...

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