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# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:59:12.679Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Scornicești in 1918, Ceaușescu joined the Romanian Communist Party as a teenager and was jailed repeatedly for activism before the war ended. He climbed the party ladder under Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and took over as general secretary in 1965. Early on he loosened press restrictions and condemned the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia — a speech that briefly made him popular — but the opening snapped shut. His regime became one of the most repressive in the Eastern Bloc: the Securitate enforced mass surveillance and brutal crackdowns, population-growth policies flooded state orphanages, economic mismanagement piled up foreign debt, and austerity to repay it gutted daily life while his cult of personality soared. By late 1989 unrest boiled over; he ordered troops to fire on demonstrators in Timișoara on 17 December, then fled Bucharest by helicopter as the revolution reached the capital. The military turned, captured him and his wife Elena, and a show trial convicted them both of economic sabotage and genocide. They were shot on 25 December 1989.