Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu.
Nicolae was one of the last iron rulers of the Stalinist Era (Roumania). He and his wife Elena were executed on Christmas Day in 1989. The fall of his regime was astonishingly fast. Just a few days earlier, he tried speaking to a massive crowd in Bucharest in an effort to quell the uprising against him with the usual Communist platitudes but eight minutes into his speech, the crowd turned against him and he had to seek shelter.
That whole period was quite a time to live through. The fall of the Berlin Wall, the disintegration of the Soviet Union and we even almost had the Communists overthrown in China. The legacy of Ronald Reagan was sealed with those events.
Funny factoid, I remember the year when the Caucescu were executed by the Romanian populace was also the year my brother married his Romanian fiancee, the marriage was a great moment of joy.
Her parents have fled the east block, these people have beeen durably vaccinated against communism, they are reliably anti-leftist and know better than no-one to decode the MSM propaganda.