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Romania’s Social Democrats Poised to Retake Government
The Social Democrats ride a wave of populism sweeping Europe and the United States to an impressive electoral victory in Romania Romania prepares to elect a new government from Al Jazeera English Romania’s former ruling party, the Social Democrats, claimed an impressive electoral victory in the recent general election, returning the party to power after […]
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Communism in Romania: Nicolae Ceauşescu.
Born January 26, 1918 and raised in Scornicești, a large village in Olt County, Romania, Nicolae Ceauşescu became Romania’s second communist leader and one of Eastern Europe’s most virulently Stalinist dictators until his violent overthrow in 1989 in a popular revolution. The son of a peasant, Ceauşescu initially joined the illegal Communist Party of Romania in […]
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