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Death The trial and execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu were held on 25 December 1989 in Târgoviște , Romania . [ 1 ] The trial was conducted by an Extraordinary Military Tribunal, a drumhead court-martial created at the request of a newly formed group called the National Salvation Front .
The suspicious death of Vasile Milea, Ceaușescu's defence minister, later confirmed as a suicide (he had tried to incapacitate himself with a flesh wound but a bullet severed his artery), [63] was announced by the media. Immediately thereafter, Ceaușescu presided over the CPEx (Political Executive Committee) meeting and assumed the leadership ...
Elena Ceaușescu (Romanian pronunciation: [eˈlena tʃe̯a.uˈʃesku]; born Lenuța Petrescu; 7 January 1916 [2] – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian communist politician who was the wife of Nicolae Ceaușescu, General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party and leader of the Socialist Republic of Romania.
Upon learning of Milea's death, Ceaușescu appointed Victor Stănculescu minister of defence. He accepted after a brief hesitation. Stănculescu, however, ordered the troops back to their quarters without Ceaușescu's knowledge, and also persuaded Ceaușescu to leave by helicopter, thus making the dictator a fugitive.
Nicolae Ceaușescu (left), his parents (center) and his wife, Elena (right), in 1968. Nicolae Ceaușescu, who led Romania from 1965 to 1989, served as General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party.
The 1970 floods in Romania, brought on by river swelling caused by torrential rains, high winds and a heat wave that melted snow in the Carpathian Mountains, [1] were the worst in modern Romanian history in loss of life, and caused the most damage up to the 2006 floods: at least $500 million; [2] perhaps over $1 billion.
[citation needed] The bodies were exhumed for identification and confirmed to be of her parents in 2010, after her death. [10] Zoia was a chain smoker. [11] She died of lung cancer in 2006, at the age of 57, and her remains were incinerated at the Cenușa Crematorium . [3]
Decree 770 was a decree of the communist government of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, signed in 1967.It restricted abortion and contraception, and was intended to create a new and large Romanian population.