Elena Ceaușescu - Wikipedia
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.
Nicolae Ceaușescu - Wikipedia
He was overthrown and executed in the Romanian Revolution in December 1989 along with his wife Elena Ceaușescu, as part of a series of anti-communist uprisings in Eastern Europe that year. Born in 1918 in Scornicești, Ceaușescu was a member of the Romanian Communist youth movement. He was arrested in 1939 and sentenced for "conspiracy ...
Trial and execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu - Wikipedia
Nicolae Ceaușescu (left), President of the Socialist Republic of Romania from 1974, also General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party since 1965, and his wife Elena Ceaușescu (right), were executed following trial on 25 December 1989.
Executing a dictator: Open wounds of Romania's Christmas revolution - BBC
The following day the dictator and his wife, Elena, fled Bucharest's Central Committee building by helicopter as crowds stormed party headquarters. The couple were captured 50km (30 miles) away...
Elena Ceausescu, Wife of Romanian Dictator - ThoughtCo
2019年2月4日 · Elena met Nicolai Ceausescu in 1939 and married him in 1946. He was a staff member with the army at the time. She worked as a secretary in a government office as her husband rose to power. Nicolai Ceausescu became first secretary of the party in March 1965 and president of the State Council (head of state) in 1967.
Elena Ceauşescu | wife of Nicolae Ceauşescu | Britannica
In 1939 he married Elena Petrescu, a Communist activist. While in prison, Ceaușescu became a protégé of his cell mate, the Communist leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who would become the undisputed Communist leader of Romania beginning in 1952.
Nicolae Ceausescu | Biography, Death, & Facts | Britannica
2024年12月21日 · Nicolae Ceausescu (1918–89) was a Communist official who was leader of Romania from 1965 until he was overthrown and killed during a revolution in 1989. He instituted an extensive personality cult while in power and appointed his wife, Elena, and many members of his extended family to high posts in the government and party.
Nicolae Ceausescu - Death, Romania & Wife - Biography
2014年4月2日 · Presiding with his wife Elena, whom he tapped as deputy prime minister, Ceausescu turned his back on Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and his calls for broad economic reform, and instead...
25 Years After Death, A Dictator Still Casts A Shadow In Romania - NPR
2014年12月24日 · Twenty-five years ago, the Communist leaders of Eastern Europe were falling like dominoes. And on Christmas Day in 1989, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, were...
BBC ON THIS DAY | 25 | 1989: Romania's 'first couple' executed
Deposed Romanian president Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena have been shot by a firing squad after a secret military tribunal found them both guilty of crimes against the state. They...