Party General Secretary Nicolae Ceaușescu, and his wife, Elena Ceaușescu. The main charge was genocide. Romanian state television announced that Nicolae Ceaușescu...

Nicolae Ceaușescu (/tʃaʊˈʃɛskuː/ chow-SHESK-oo, Romanian: [nikoˈla.e tʃe̯a.uˈʃesku] , 26 January [O.S. 13 January] 1918 – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian...

Nicolae Rădescu (Romanian pronunciation: [nikoˈla.e rəˈdesku]; 30 March 1874 – 16 May 1953) was a Romanian army officer and political figure. He was the...

Nicolae Samsonovici (August 7, 1877–September 16, 1950) was a Romanian general. In the 1930s, he served as Chief of the General Staff and as Defense Minister...

officials. Colonel Dumitru Burlan was the chief of bodyguards of President Nicolae Ceaușescu, and served once as his stand-in (double), but was not able to...

General Secretary Alexandru Bârlădeanu Emil Bobu Emil Bodnăraș Silviu Brucan Elena Ceaușescu, wife of Nicolae Ceaușescu Nicolae Ceaușescu, General Secretary...

defection, Pacepa simultaneously had the rank of advisor to President Nicolae Ceaușescu, acting chief of his foreign intelligence service, and a parliamentary...

Literature. Prominent Romanian painters include: Nicolae Grigorescu, Ștefan Luchian, Ion Andreescu Nicolae Tonitza, and Theodor Aman. Notable Romanian classical...

He died of lung cancer in March 1965. His once protégé Nicolae Ceaușescu succeeded him as General Secretary. Gheorghiu-Dej was the son of a poor worker...

but then stagnated in the 1980s. In the 1960s and 1970s, Nicolae Ceaușescu became General Secretary of the Communist Party (1965), Chairman of the State...