Following the devastating 7.4-magnitude earthquake on March 4, 1977, that claimed the lives of 1,500 people, Ceausescu decided to transform Bucharest's ruins into a monumental socialist triumph.

This was the seed of an uprising. The city’s population joined the small protest, galvanising it into a full-blown anti-communist revolution. The demonstrators stormed the local headquarters of the ...

The remains of the Ceausescus were exhumed in response to requests from the couple's daughter, Zoia, who died of lung cancer in 2006, her husband, Mircea Oprean, and Ceausescu's son, Valentin.

Dir/scr: Sebastian Mihailescu. Romania. 2021. 100 mins. When one young amateur actor tells another, “You are Ceausescu to me,” the implication appears to be that we are all Ceausescu — at ...

Ceausescu was toppled Dec. 22, 1989, as Romanians, fed up with years of draconian rationing and communist rule, revolted. He tried to flee Bucharest by helicopter but his pilot switched sides.

The home of Romania's former communist ruling couple, Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu, has been opened to the public 27 years after they were executed.