Nicolae Ceausescu ruled with an iron fist for 25 years until he was overthrown and executed on Christmas Day in 1989. A quarter-century after his... 25 Years After Death, A Dictator Still Casts A ...

'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 ...

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Romanian expatriate Andrei Ujica spent four years combing through the national film and television archives of his homeland to assemble this epic documentary, which uses official images of communist ...

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 -- 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.

BRASOV, Romania -- On Romanian Heroes' Day, Ileana Negru, a 66-year-old woman whose son Florin was just 12 when he was killed in the 1989 revolution, went to a mountain road outside the central city ...

Romanian expatriate Andrei Ujica spent four years combing through the national film and television archives of his homeland to assemble this epic documentary, which uses official images of communist ...

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 ...