France 24: Romania marks 30 years since revolt against Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu
Romanians are remembering those who died during the nine-day revolt against Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu some 30 years after the uprising and asking questions about the legacy of the revolution.
Born in 1918, Ceausescu become president of Romania in 1974 and built up an intense cult of personality, which ended with his overthrow in the anti-communist revolution of December 1989.
On December 21, 1989, Ceausescu gave a televised speech in Bucharest that ended when some in the crowd repeatedly interrupted him. The dictator fled the stage and people flooded the streets, confronted by soldiers and tanks.
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As I remember, in all the furious activity that took place around the revolution, the Parliament had a bill proposed to eliminate capital punishment after all the executions that had taken place under the communist dictatorship. Passage of the bill was stalled for some contrived reason, and it was finally passed once word was received that the Ceausescus were shot. Nice touch.
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