Seattle Times

‘Nicolae Ceausescu’: Dictator’s reign, downfall

It’s impossible that “The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu” is the monument that the former Romanian dictator would have produced in his own honor. Among other things, it has an unhappy ending, at ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Interviewing Romania’s president, a quarter-century after Ceausescu’s fall

President Traian Basescu wants to reach out to Israel’s large population of Romanian-speaking immigrants. In December 1989, a childhood friend and neighbor from Haifa posed a riddle to me that she had ...
The Irish Times

Questions still to answer over aftermath of Ceausescu fall

Campaigners want an inquiry into the violence that followed the arrest of the communist dictator TWENTY YEARS ago, Teodor Maries was on holiday in Bucharest when revolution gripped the city. He was ...
The Daily Telegraph

Thirty years on: the brutal Christmas Day downfall of Ceausescu, Romania's communist dictator

Tim Stanley is a columnist and leader writer for The Telegraph. A Cambridge-educated historian and author, he often appears on BBC Radio 4’s The Moral Maze and co-hosts The Daily T podcast. Tim ...
The Baltimore Sun

‘The Rise and Fall of Ceausescu’ examines the Romanian’s brutality

If there was ever a life that confirmed Lord Acton’s statement “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” it was that of Nicolae Ceausescu. Actually, according to Edward Behr’s ...