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 ...

Thirty years ago, Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were executed by firing squad after a hasty one-hour show trial. The pair had fled from power in a helicopter after a popular ...

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 ...

Romania built nine Rombac 1-11 airliners, and this one was used as the official presidential plane of Nicolae Ceausescu. It goes up on auction Thursday. You only have a few days to act, but if you’ve ...

'A mission of honor': key players recall Romania's bloody revolution. Oct. 21, 2009 — -- The camera slowly pans across the faces of the executed, across the waxy face of the woman, surrounded by ...

In this handout photo provided by Artmark auction house, a 119-seat "Rombac One-Eleven", one of nine such passenger jets built in Romania which was used by communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu for ...

Known to be the leader of one of the most brutal and repressive Communist regimes, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was far from being an actual socialist when it came to his cars. A Romanian ...

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 ...

If you’re in the market for a more special buy, this is as special as it gets. As it so happens, it’s also on the affordable side: one of the aircraft from dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s Presidential ...

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 ...