Nicolae Ceausescu

NICOLAE CEAUSESCU d1989. Romanian communist politician and dictator. He was the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989 and the second and last Communist leader of Romania. He was also the country's head of state from 1967 (serving as President of the State Council) and from 1974 concurrently as President of the Republic, until his overthrow and execution aged 71 on December 25th 1989 in the Romanian Revolution as part of the series of anti-communist uprisings in Eastern Europe that year