Consider this heartwarming Christmas story, just in time for the season. It was back in the bad old days, the 1980s, and Nicolae Ceausescu was dictator of Romania. He had been in that exalted post for ...

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 ...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - A Romanian auction house is selling memorabilia belonging to former Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu to mark what would have been his 100th birthday. The "Golden Era" ...

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 ...

In the shadow of the Cold War, Nicolae Ceaușescu rose to power in Romania. His brand of national-communism would set the ...

BUCHAREST, Romania – 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 ...

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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 ...

Cristian Gavrila, collectibles consignment manager at Artmark auction house, shows an engraving of Romanian Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu's name on a Holland & Holland hunting rifle before an ...

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 ...