Nicolae Ceaușescu: Difference between revisions

Line 6:

His rule was marked in the first decade by an open policy towards Western Europe and the United States, which deviated from that of the other [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact Warsaw Pact] states during the [[Cold War]]. He continued a trend first established by his predecessor, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gheorghe_Gheorghiu-Dej Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej], who had tactfully coaxed the Soviet Union into withdrawing its troops from Romania in 1958.

Ceaușescu's second decade was characterized by an increasingly brutal and repressive regime—by some accounts, the most [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalinism Stalinist] regime in the Soviet bloc. It was also marked by a ubiquitous [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality personality cult], nationalism and a deterioration in foreign relations with the Soviet Union. Ceaușescu's government was overthrown in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_Revolution_of_1989 December 1989 revolution], and he and his wife were executed following a televised and hastily organised two-hour court session.

Ceaușescu's second decade was characterized by an increasingly brutal and repressive regime—by some accounts, the most [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalinism Stalinist] regime in the Soviet bloc. It was also marked by a ubiquitous [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality personality cult], nationalism and a deterioration in foreign relations with the Soviet Union. Ceaușescu's government was overthrown in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_Revolution_of_1989 December 1989 revolution], and he and his wife were executed following a televised and hastily organised two-hour court session. However although he was aggressive, short tempered and egotistic (all his photos show him in his early 40s and his actual height which was 1.65 metres tall never emphasised on screen and also shown to be a confident speaker) he was also one of few people to stand up to the Soviet Union.

==Early life==

Ceaușescu was born in the village of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scornice%C5%9Fti Scorniceşti], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olt_County Olt County], on 26 January 1918 being one of the ten children of a poor peasant family (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceau%C8%99escu_family Ceaușescu family]). His father, Andruță Ceaușescu owned 3 hectares of agricultural land, a few sheep and he also supplemented his large family's income through tailoring<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Gruia42_4-0">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceausescu#cite_note-Gruia42-4 .]</sup> Nicolae studied at the village school and, at the age of 11, he moved to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucharest Bucharest], initially living with his sister, Niculina Rusescu, and then becoming an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apprentice apprentice] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoemaker shoemaker].

@@ Line 6: / Line 6: @@
 His rule was marked in the first decade by an open policy towards Western Europe and the United States, which deviated from that of the other [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact Warsaw Pact] states during the [[Cold War]]. He continued a trend first established by his predecessor, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gheorghe_Gheorghiu-Dej Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej], who had tactfully coaxed the Soviet Union into withdrawing its troops from Romania in 1958.
-Ceaușescu's second decade was characterized by an increasingly brutal and repressive regime—by some accounts, the most [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalinism Stalinist] regime in the Soviet bloc. It was also marked by a ubiquitous [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality personality cult], nationalism and a deterioration in foreign relations with the Soviet Union. Ceaușescu's government was overthrown in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_Revolution_of_1989 December 1989 revolution], and he and his wife were executed following a televised and hastily organised two-hour court session.
+Ceaușescu's second decade was characterized by an increasingly brutal and repressive regime—by some accounts, the most [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalinism Stalinist] regime in the Soviet bloc. It was also marked by a ubiquitous [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality personality cult], nationalism and a deterioration in foreign relations with the Soviet Union. Ceaușescu's government was overthrown in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_Revolution_of_1989 December 1989 revolution], and he and his wife were executed following a televised and hastily organised two-hour court session. However although he was aggressive, short tempered and egotistic (all his photos show him in his early 40s and his actual height which was 1.65 metres tall never emphasised on screen and also shown to be a confident speaker) he was also one of few people to stand up to the Soviet Union.
 ==Early life==
 Ceaușescu was born in the village of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scornice%C5%9Fti Scorniceşti], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olt_County Olt County], on 26 January 1918 being one of the ten children of a poor peasant family (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceau%C8%99escu_family Ceaușescu family]). His father, Andruță Ceaușescu owned 3 hectares of agricultural land, a few sheep and he also supplemented his large family's income through tailoring<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Gruia42_4-0">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceausescu#cite_note-Gruia42-4 .]</sup> Nicolae studied at the village school and, at the age of 11, he moved to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucharest Bucharest], initially living with his sister, Niculina Rusescu, and then becoming an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apprentice apprentice] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoemaker shoemaker].