Nicolae Ceau?escu

For other people named Ceausescu or Ceau?escu, see Ceausescu (disambiguation).

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Nicolae Ceau?escu (IPA ), or approximately nee-koh-LAH-yay chah-oo-SHESS-koo) (January 26, 1918 - December 25,1989) was the leader of Communist Romania from 1965 until shortly before his execution on December 25, 1989.

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Born in the Scornice?ti village of Olt county, Ceau?escu moved to Bucharest at the age of 11 to become a shoemaker's apprentice.

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He joined the then-illegal Communist Party of Romania in early 1932 and was first arrested in 1933 for agitating during a strike. He was arrested again in 1934 first for collecting signatures on a petition protesting the trial of railway workers and twice more for other similar activities. These arrests earned him the description "dangerous communist agitator" and "active distributor of communist and anti-fascist propaganda" on his police record. He then went underground but was captured and imprisoned in 1936 for two years at Doftana Prison for anti-fascist activities.

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