Nicolae Ceausescu LAST SPEECH
Nicolae Ceaușescu (
Romanian pronunciation: [nikoˈla.e t͡ʃe̯a.uˈʃesku];
26 January 1918 --
25 December 1989) was a Romanian Communist politician. He was
Secretary General of the
Romanian Communist Party from
1965 to 1989, and as such was the country's second and last Communist leader. He was also the country's head of state from
1967 to 1989.
His rule was marked in the first decade by an open policy towards
Western Europe and the
United States, which deviated from that of the other
Warsaw Pact states during the
Cold War. He continued a trend first established by his predecessor,
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who had tactfully coaxed the
Soviet Union into withdrawing its troops from
Romania in
1958.[1]
Ceaușescu's second decade was characterized by an increasingly brutal and repressive regime—by s
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