After the fall of the regime in December 1989, Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu were arrested by the army and revolutionary forces ...

The pic has no dramatic thrust, and a highly charged yet unenthusiastic home reception is the most that can be expected from theatrical. Journalist Grigore Cartianu adapted his own investigative books ...

When ICE agents can shoot citizens in the streets, the distance between Ceaușescu's secret police and our reality has ...

BUCHAREST, Romania – It is furniture fit for a dictator and now it's up for sale. Twenty-five years ago, the Communist Party politburo ordered a bespoke set of rosewood, walnut and cherry wood ...

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 ...

BUCHAREST, Romania — The last time Alexandru Socol saw Nicolae Ceausescu was in 1989, when the communist dictator visited Mr. Socol’s factory to inspect the components it produced for hydroelectric ...

'A mission of honor': key players recall Romania's bloody revolution. Oct. 21, 2009 — -- The camera slowly pans across the faces of the executed, across the waxy face of the woman, surrounded by ...

Known to be the leader of one of the most brutal and repressive Communist regimes, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was far from being an actual socialist when it came to his cars. A Romanian ...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A devoted aide of ex-Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu who was sent to quell protests that sparked the 1989 revolution has died. He was 87. Emil Bobu died from a heart attack ...

The key to “The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu” is the word “autobiography.” Andrei Ujica’s extraordinarily powerful montage of newsreel footage is not a record of the Romanian dictator’s ...