In Romania, the Department for State Security (Departamentul Securității Statului) is most vividly associated with the terrors and excesses of the Ceauşescu dictatorship. The Securitate was founded on August 30th, 1948 with help from the Soviet NKVD, the precursor to the Soviet’s infamous KGB. Romania’s State Security had a heavy presence in civil society, with some […]
Read MoreBorn 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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