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 executed by ...

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Taking the country by surprise, forensic scientists on Wednesday exhumed what are believed to be the bodies of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena to solve the mystery of where they ...

The government set up to run revolution-torn Romania said Monday it had executed ousted President Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife after secretly trying the two for committing ”particularly grave crimes ...

When Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, were executed by firing squad on Christmas Day 1989, the event was documented with a handheld video camera. The footage is posted on ...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanians nostalgic for the communist era gathered Thursday at the grave of former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, who were tried and executed on Christmas Day ...

On Sunday, Dec. 17, President Nicolae Ceausescu summoned top Communist Party officials across the country and, on closed-circuit TV, issued orders to kill. The night before, demonstrators had taken to ...

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 -- A judge in Romania has infuriated the son of a victim of Nicolae Ceausescu's regime by ruling that the communist dictator's feared secret police did not "systematically exterminate" ...

Four former communist officials in Romania, including the head of the hated secret police and the then interior minister, will go on trial over the 1985 death of a dissident, prosecutors said Monday.