Yeah, I recall that. And at one point I spoke with a military officer from Romania who was embarrassed about it.
They might be embarrassed now, but back then, the people were tired of starvation and living under the thumb of a couple of people who were madder than hatters.
There are still hard-line commie loyalists today who were making up conspiracy theory stories that they (the Ceausescus) were not shot, that they had fled the country somehow and were still living. Let’s put aside the fact that they’d be in their 90’s now, let’s just deal with the conspiracy theories.
The issue got so bad that the authorities in Romania exhumed the bodies, took DNA samples and tested them against the only known living son:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/03/AR2010110301858.html
Thugs and tyrants should receive this sort of end. It is the only thing that gets through their thick skulls. It would be better yet if their bodies were torn apart and hung from lamposts, but hey, we can’t have everything.
When “international law” prevails and these sorts of thugs get to die in their beds at a ripe old age (as did Pol Pot, responsible for over a million executions and deaths in Cambodia), it sends a very wrong message to these types of people.