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Nicolae giving his last speech

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Nicolae Ceaușescu was a Romanian Communist politician who served as the General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party. He became the leader of Romania in 1965 and ruled over the country for more than two decades before he was overthrown and killed in a revolution.

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He was born January 26th, 1918. He was 3/10 children Nicolae grew up poor, receiving only an elementary school education. By age 11, he was employed in one of the many factories that dotted the Bucharest landscape., Nicolae joined Romania's worker movement in 1932. He grew increasingly brutal over the years causing great distress to the citizenry who longed for freedom and peace.

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In 1944, with the Axis powers starting to lose ground, followed by the Soviet invasion of Romania, Ceausescu escaped from prison. Within a year, Romania fell under Communist rule and Nicolae started to gain power.

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Romania's standard of living failed. Nicolae power started to weaken. December of 1989, army pushed Nicolae from power and into the courtroom. On December 25, Nicolae and his wife Elena were charged with genocide and other crimes. Shortly after their conviction, the Nicolae was led outside and executed by a firing squad.

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Nicolae and Elena were marched outside straight after their sentences were handed down. As Nicolae sang The Internationale, Elena swore at the assembled firing squad, the soldiers opened fire, peppering the them with bullets from their automatic weapons. They fell to the ground and died.

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I picked this topic because he was one of our vocab words and we talked and read about him a little bit and class and I was intrested in learning more about him. I really had no opinion about him before I started researching him. I learned that he didnt have a very good childhood and that he had a bad death. This changed my understanding because now I know that people didnt like him.

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Nicolae and Elena together.

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Nicolae and Elena being assasinated

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A&E Television Networks-https://www.biography.com/political-figure/nicolae-ceausescu "Nicolae Ceausescu"
History- "The Fall of Nicolae Ceausescu" https://www.history.co.uk/article/the-fall-of-nicolae-ceausescu-romanias-last-communist-leader
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"Nicolae Ceausescu Biography"

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