While Nicolae Ceausescu starved the people and let them freeze through hard winters, he ordered 700 architects to erect a so-called People's Palace with reception rooms the size of soccer fields ...

The fall of the Iron Curtain manifested itself violently 20 years ago in Romania, with the execution of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife. Two decades after, some of the key players in the ...

The graves of Romania's former communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were dug up on Wednesday, some 20 years after their deaths, to check if they were truly buried there, their ...

Nicolae Ceausescu, who was executed with his wife on Christmas day of 1989, was a maverick and despotic Rumanian Communist leader who pursued an independent course abroad and demanded slavish ...