Ceausescu

Mueller was sacked from her first job as a translator in the 1970s after refusing to work for Ceausescu's hated Securitate secret police.

The brutal Romanian dictator and his wife were executed by firing squad in 1989, after Ceausescu's government was overthrown.

Former Communist Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu, above, and his wife Elena were executed on December 25, 1989, in Bucharest.

But in the 1970s, as he rose to prominence in his field, he refused to declare allegiance to Nicolae Ceausescu, the Romanian dictator.

Worse, the church will not look into its communist-era past, when it was a loyal servant of Nicolae Ceausescu.

The grim daily life under Ceausescu's oppressive regime and the harsh treatment of Romanian Germans has featured strongly in her works.

Ceausescu is very angry because he is not hearing any jokes about him.

Schoolgirls in holiday dress swing into action during a tumultuous Peking welcome for Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu.

"We live in a normal apartment, just like every other citizen, " Elena Ceausescu told a military court during her closed trial.

Nixon learned that Ceausescu would welcome a presidential visit.

Ceausescu also forbade testing of the nation's blood supply for AIDS.

As a portrait of the Ceausescu era it is art as social history.

Why, went another Romanian communist joke, did Ceausescu hold a mass rally on the first of May?

Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, Mengistu, Ceausescu - it can't just be a coincidence.

Nicolae Ceausescu was dictator of Romania from 1974 to 1989.

Queen witch Bratara Buzea, 63, who was imprisoned in 1977 for witchcraft under Ceausescu's repressive regime, is furious about the new law.

Then it was Honecker and Ceausescu; tomorrow it might be Castro, Ahmadinejad or Mugabe;

Then it was Honecker and Ceausescu;