Targoviste Garrison Museum. Where Ceausescu's trial took place. Romania 2015
This video shows inside the building where Nicolae Ceausescu & Elena were sentenced to death and the backyard where they were executed.
On 22 December, during the Romanian Revolution, Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu left the Central Committee by helicopter toward Snagov, from which they left soon after towards Pitești. The helicopter pilot claimed to be in danger of anti-aircraft fire, so he landed on the Bucharest - Târgoviște road, near Găești. They stopped a car driven by a certain Dr. Nicolae Decă, who took them to Văcăreşti, after which he informed the local authorities that the Ceaușescus were going toward Târgoviște. The Ceaușescus took another car and told its driver, Nicolae Petrisor, to drive them to Târgoviște. During the trip, the Ceaușescus heard news of the revolution on the car radio (by then the revolutionaries had taken control of the state media), causing Ceaușescu to angrily denounce the revolution as a coup d'etat. Petrisor took the couple to an agricultural center near Târgoviște, where the Ceaușescus were locked in an office and were later arrested by soldiers from a local army garrison.
Târgoviște in Romania: a museum of Ceaușescu causes critics and outrage
In Romanian memory, the souvenir of Nicolae Ceaușescu is still strong. Either to praise his legacy, or to criticize it. In Târgoviște, the city where the dictator was sentenced and executed, the project of a museum sparks outrage.
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Museum opens at site of former Communist leader's trial and execution
More than 20 years after Romania's Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife were convicted of genocide and executed, the country has opened a museum about the last two days of the couple's lives during the country's pro-democracy uprising.
The museum is located in Targoviste, 80 kilometres (50 miles) northwest of Bucharest, in the military building where the trial and executions took place.
Museum visitors will be able to see metal plates that he and his wife ate on, the beds where they slept and a tiny improvised courtroom where they faced a hastily conducted trial before a special military tribunal.
The place where they were fatally shot on Christmas Day, 1989, also is showcased.
The former commander of the garrison located in the building took journalists on a tour of the museum on Tuesday.
General Andrei Kemenci said Ceausescu was dissatisfied that he was only given black bread and sweets to eat there and added the leader asked for a change of clothes and to borrow money to spend at a military canteen.
The Romanian revolution was sparked on 16 December 1989 when authorities tried to forcibly move an ethnic Hungarian pastor, Laszlo Toekes, from his home in Timisoara to a remote rural parish.
Residents of the city flocked to his defence, leading to rapidly escalating confrontations with police.
The next day, police, army and secret service units began firing at protesters, the start of six days of fighting that subsequently spilled over to Bucharest and led to the toppling of Ceausescu and the communist government.
Some 11-hundred people were killed during the revolt that ended his rule.
On 22 December, after ruling Romania with an iron fist for nearly 25 years, Ceausescu and his wife fled Bucharest in a helicopter after they were booed by a crowd and hours after their defence minister apparently committed suicide.
Abandoned by the helicopter pilot and most of the leader's aides, the couple then hitchhiked and ended up in Targoviste, where they were arrested by police.
On 24 December, provisional leaders who took over after the Ceausescus fled decided the couple would stand trial the next day.
The trial lasted just two hours during which the defendants said they did not recognise the legitimacy of the court and called former aides attending the trial traitors.
Both were convicted and immediately executed in the building's courtyard.
The museum will open to the public later this month, with tickets costing seven lei (2.10 US dollars).
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Nicolae Ceaușescu 26 January 1918 – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian politician. He was general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and as such was the country's second and last Communist leader. He was also the country's head of state of the Socialist Republic of Romania from 1967 up to his trial and execution on 25 December 1989.
A member of the Romanian Communist youth movement, Ceaușescu rose up through the ranks of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej's Socialist government and, upon the death of Gheorghiu-Dej in 1965, he succeeded to the leadership of Romania’s Communist Party as General Secretary.
After a brief period of relatively moderate rule, Ceaușescu became increasingly brutal and repressive. By some accounts, his rule was the most rigidly Stalinist in the Soviet bloc. He maintained controls over speech and the media that were very strict even by Soviet-bloc standards, and internal dissent was not tolerated. His secret police, the Securitate, was one of the most ubiquitous and brutal secret police forces in the world. In 1982, with the goal of paying off Romania's large foreign debt, Ceaușescu ordered the export of much of the country’s agricultural and industrial production. The resulting extreme shortages of food, fuel, energy, medicines, and other basic necessities drastically lowered living standards and intensified unrest. Ceaușescu's rule was also marked by extensive cult of personality, nationalism, a continuing deterioration in foreign relations even with the Soviet Union, and nepotism.
During his leadership, it was discovered that the shootings of anti-government protesters and anarchists by military forces in Timișoara on 17 December 1989 were personally ordered by him; the discovery caused raging massive civil unrest and violence, and Romania's major cities were overtaken by riots. The demonstrations spread to Bucharest and became known as the Romanian Revolution, which was the only violent removal of a Communist government in the course of the revolutions of 1989. Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena, fled the capital in a helicopter, but were captured by the armed forces. On 25 December, they were hastily tried and convicted by a special military tribunal on charges of genocide and sabotage of the Romanian economy in a roughly one-hour-long show trial. Ceaușescu and his wife were then immediately executed by a firing squad
The Palace of the Parliament (Romanian: Palatul Parlamentului) is the seat of the Parliament of Romania. Located on Dealul Arsenalului in central Bucharest (Sector 5), it is the largest administrative building in the world with a height of 84 m, an area of 365,000 m2 and having a volume of 2,550,000 m3. In terms of weight, the Palace of the Parliament is the heaviest building in the world, weighing in at around 4,098,500,000 kg.
A colossal parliament building known for its ornate interior composed of 23 sections, it houses the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, three museums and an international conference center. The National Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Communist Totalitarianism (established in 2015) and the Museum of the Palace are hosted inside the Palace. Though named the House of the Republic (Romanian: Casa Republicii), after the Romanian Revolution in 1989 it became widely known as the People's House (Romanian: Casa Poporului). Due to its impressive endowments, conferences, symposiums and other events are organised by state institutions and international bodies, but even so about 70% of the building is empty.
In 1990, Australian business magnate Rupert Murdoch wanted to buy the building for US$1 billion, but his bid was rejected. As of 2008, the Palace of the Parliament is valued at €3 billion ($3.4 billion), making it the most expensive administrative building in the world. The cost of heating and electric lighting alone exceeds $6 million per year, as much as a medium-sized city.
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The grave of Nicolae & Elena Ceausescu.
A brief look at the joint grave of former Communist leader Nicolae & Elena Ceausescu Ghencea Cemetery, Bucharest, Romania.
The information I had (from a travel guide published in 2016) said that Nicolae & Elena were buried in separate places but in fact they were brought together into a single grave in December 2010.
Nicolae Ceausescu was the last Communist leader of Romania from 1965 to 1989. Nicolae & his wife Elena Ceausescu were executed on 25th December 1989 following a brief trial in Târgoviște, Romania
(about 50miles/80km NE from Bucharest). They were charged with genocide and the sabotage of the Romanian economy and found guilty in an hour.
To visit: Ghencea Cemetery is a few miles SE from the centre of Bucharest and can be reached by tram no 47. Walking in the main entrance, head straight to the small chapel in front of you (about 200m). Take the left path from the chapel (heading west) and
the grave is on the right side of the path, about 4 grave plots in from the chapel.
GPS of the grave red/orange in colour: 44°25'6.71N 26° 3'13.09E
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Romania: Mourners mark 28 years since execution of Ceausescu
Dozens of mourners gathered at the grave of Romania's last communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena Ceausescu, in Bucharest, Monday, to commemorate the 28th anniversary of the politician's execution.
Mourners listened to old Communist songs and speeches of the former leader on a USB player, and drank small cups of wine, as according to Romanian traditions.
On 22 December 1989, Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu attempted to flee Bucharest via helicopter from the Central Committee building of the Communist Party, following a 24 hours siege which ended two and a half decades of Ceausescu’s rule.
In power from 1965 to 1989, Ceausescu and his wife Elena were executed in the city of Targoviste on December 25, 1989, by firing squad. Eyewitnesses say that Ceausescu sang the Internationale seconds before he was killed.
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on Christmas Day in 1989, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, were executed by firing squad. The deaths of the despised couple ended a quarter-century of iron-fisted rule that translated into oppression and misery for most Romanians.
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0:00-1:54 sec on video (added full English translation on 28 Dec 2019): At 2000 hrs (SGT) on 22 Dec 1989, Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (formerly SBC, now known as Mediacorp) reported via its 8pm Chinese TV News bulletin that the State Chairman (President) of Romania - Nicolae Ceaușescu - had fled abroad, probably to China or Iran. This news report was later confirmed to be untrue. At no time during the Romanian Revolution did Nicolae & Elena Ceaușescu leave Romania.
24 Dec 1989: Ion Iliescu, head of the newly formed Council of the National Salvation Front (NSF), signed a decree establishing the Extraordinary Military Tribunal, a drumhead court-martial to try the Ceaușescus for genocide and other crimes.
25 Dec 1989: Hastily-convened court trial lasts for approximately two hours and delivers death sentences to Nicolae & Elena Ceaușescu. Although nominally the Ceaușescus had a right of appeal, their execution followed immediately, just outside the improvised courtroom, being carried out by three paratroopers with their service rifles.
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Background Information
The 1989 Romanian Revolution (Romanian: Revoluția Română) was a period of violent civil uprising occurring within the space of about 10 days from mid-to-late Dec 1989 and was a part of the Revolutions of 1989 that toppled Communist regimes in several Eastern European countries.
Early peaceful protests had occurred in the eastern city of Timișoara on 16 Dec 1989 on the part of the Hungarian ethnic minority in response to an attempt by the communist government to evict Hungarian Reformed Church Pastor László Tőkés, who had reportedly been preaching on human rights and liberty.
As rumours spread that hundreds, if not thousands, had been killed in the Timișoara uprising, protests soon spread throughout Romania, ultimately culminating in the show trial and execution of longtime Communist Party General Secretary Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena (also the Deputy Prime Minister), and the end of 42 years of Communist rule in Romania.
The country's ubiquitous secret police force, the Securitate, which was both one of the largest in the Eastern Bloc and for decades had been the main suppressor of popular dissent, frequently and violently quashing political disagreement, ultimately proved incapable of stopping the looming revolt.
Social and economic malaise had been present in Socialist Romania for quite some time, especially during the austerity years of the 1980s. The austerity measures were designed in part by the Ceaușescu regime to repay foreign debts.
By 1986, Romania had repaid half its external debt. By Jun 1989, the remaining external debt was fully repaid but this had come at a tremendous domestic socio-economic price. Nevertheless, the austerity policy continued even after all the debts had been repaid.
On 21 Dec 1989, shortly after a botched public speech by Ceaușescu in Bucharest (Romania's capital city) that was broadcast to millions of Romanians on state television, rank-and-file members of the military switched, almost unanimously, from supporting the dictator to backing the protesting population.
Riots, street violence and murders in several Romanian cities over the course of roughly a week led the Romanian leader to flee Bucharest on 22 Dec 1989 with his wife Elena.
Evading capture by hastily departing via helicopter effectively portrayed the couple as both fugitives and also acutely guilty of accused crimes.
Captured in Târgoviște, they were tried by a drumhead military tribunal on charges of genocide, damage to the national economy and abuse of power to execute military actions against the Romanian people.
They were convicted on all charges, sentenced to death, and immediately executed on Christmas Day 1989, and to this day, are the last people to be condemned to death and executed in Romania.
The Romanian Revolution involved the last removal of a Marxist-Leninist government in a Warsaw Pact member state during the events of 1989, and the only one that violently overthrew a country's government and executed its leader.
Clarification: The Socialist Republic of Romania (Romanian: Republica Socialistă România, RSR) refers to Romania under Marxist-Leninist one-party communist rule that existed officially from 1947 to 1989. Previously from 1947 to 1965, the state was known as the Romanian People's Republic (Republica Populară Romînă, RPR).
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Romania: Mourners mark 30th anniversary of Ceausescu's execution
|December 25, 2019 Published, A large group of mourners gathered at the grave of Romania's last communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena on Wednesday, in Bucharest, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of their executions. Mourners, including members of the Romanian Communist Party, lit candles by the grave side, listened to old songs from the socialist period, and even placed a wreath of flowers on the grave. In power from 1965 to 1989, Ceausescu and his wife Elena were executed in the city of Targoviste on December 25, 1989, by firing squad, after being convicted of genocide during a rapid, show trial. Ceausescu cultivated an extensive cult of personality during his decades in power, in which his wife Elena was also venerated, said to have been inspired by the personality cults of the Asian communist leaders Mao Zedong and Kim Il-sung whose countries he visited in 1971|
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Interesantă expoziție conținând exemplare rare ale ziarelor din vremea instaurării comunismului în România, publicații literare ale acelorași vremuri, precum și lucrări ale unor sciitori ce și-au pus pana în slujba comunismului, pot fi văzute la Muzeul Județean Teohari Antonescu. Aceeași instituție culturală va derula pe parcursul acestei săptămâni o serie de manifestări, dintre care amintim un simpozion de numismatică, vernisajul unei expoziții de hărți vechi, dar și un simpozion de arhitectură.
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