Romania's President Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, (right) talk with Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife, Raisa, in Bucharest, Romania, in this photo taken in May 1987. The Ceausescus were executed less than three years later.
Posted on 07/21/2010 12:24:34 PM PDT by Daffynition
Taking the country by surprise, forensic scientists on Wednesday exhumed what are believed to be the bodies of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena at the request of their children.
Ceausescu ruled Romania for 25 years with an iron fist before being ousted and executed during the 1989 anti-communist revolt in which more than 1,000 people were killed.
Some Romanians doubt that the Ceausescus were really buried in the Ghencea military cemetery in west Bucharest. There is also some nostalgia for the communist period and regrets that the couple was executed on Christmas Day, 1989.
The news of the exhumation, the latest development in a five-year court case, broke as most Romanians were asleep. Officials rapidly closed the cemetery as dozens of journalists began arriving at the gates. A few elderly people wandered around the sprawling cemetery but were kept away from the exhumations by guards.
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Romania's President Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, (right) talk with Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife, Raisa, in Bucharest, Romania, in this photo taken in May 1987. The Ceausescus were executed less than three years later.
The wife was something, she spat at the firing squad. I heard.
pump a couple more clips in ‘em and toss ‘em back in a hole.. murderous ruthless thugs.
Nostalgia by whom? Obama, NPR and the New York Times?
You got that right, especially NPR hoping wistfully for the return of their regime, I doubt Obama knows who they were. It would be amazing if Romania tried to rehabilitate those two, given the amount of misery they caused and the poverty they imposed on their people.
Exhume them and drive wooden stakes in their hearts. Bury them with holy water as well.
They miss the hunger, the shortages, the secret police, the forced childbearing, the isolation, the entire lack of personal freedom.
I think that, instead of bringing back the good old days, those who miss it should just move to Cuba, where the living is paradise.
I was going to say the exact same thing.
Ceausescu could have been a hero but instead went down the killing road. His commitment to Romanian independence was poisoned by paternalism and his belief in his own infallibility - hubris, that age-old companion to despots. Not content with ruining the country it is alleged that he also tried to rob it, establishing Swiss bank accounts to hide his stash. His most appalling legacy is the thousands of filthy, neglected children rescued from the orphanages and institutions Ceausescu claimed did not exist.
Ceausescu fleeing from his angry citizens in 89'
Under that evil man, everyone had a job, even though he starved them. Now Romania is broke an heavily in debt. Go figure.
Ceausescu should serve as a warning to ALL politicians. People will only be pushed so far.
I spent a couple weeks in Romania in 1991 and spoke to people about life before the '89 Revolution. This so-called "nostalgia" comes from people who were born after 1989, who have no clue of:
Ceausescu's attempts to ethnically cleanse the Hungarian enclaves of the western Banat region;
His disastrous "population increase" program to up the numbers of ethnic Romanians, the result of which was the deplorable conditions in orphanages; and
The Securitate, who would grab people away from their homes in the middle of the night simply because someone accused them of being anti-communist.
Ceausescu ranked right up there with Saddam and Hafez Assad when it came to human rights abuses. Those who pine for "the good old days" need a history lesson.
It’s the same in Russia with people who admire Stalin, they didn’t live during his rule, and know how terrorizing it was to know that at anytime there could be that knock on the door that led to a one-way trip to the Lubyanka.
Hang ‘em this time.
There are long videos up on Youtube of the trial and execution, as well as footage of them being put into coffins and buried. Not sure why anyone would doubt that.
Evil people, the world is a better place with them dead.
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