[The_Mortician]

Originally Posted by Suicide Boy

Additional info from Wikipedia:

*Guy was basically a corrupt, cowardly Communist dictator in Romania up until December 1989, when a revolution and coup took place, blah de blah.*

Ceauşescu and his wife Elena fled the capital by helicopter with Emil Bobu and Manea Mănescu and headed for Ceauşescu's Snagov residence, from where they fled again, this time for Târgovişte. The presidential couple kept moving through the countryside. Near Târgovişte, they abandoned the helicopter, having been ordered to land by the army, which by that time had restricted flight in Romania's air space. The Ceauşescus were finally held in a police car for several hours, while the policemen listened to the radio. Police eventually turned over the presidential couple to the army. On December 25, the two were condemned to death by a military court on charges ranging from illegal gathering of wealth to genocide, and were executed in Târgovişte. Before they were shot dead, Ceauşescu sang part of "The Internationale" and proclaimed that history would judge him well. His wife was screaming at everyone to go to hell.

The Ceauşescus were executed by a firing squad lead by Captain Ionel Boeru and two other soldiers who shot them with AK-47 assault rifles. After the shooting had stopped, the bodies were covered with canvas. The hasty trial and execution were videotaped. The footage was promptly released in France and other western countries. Several days later, footage of their trial and pictures of their corpses (but not of the execution itself) were released on television for the Romanian public.

The Ceauşescu couple's graves are located in Ghencea cemetery in Bucharest. Nicolae and Elena are buried on opposite sides of a path. The graves themselves are unassuming, but they tend to be covered in flowers and symbols of their regime. Some allege that the graves do not, in reality, contain the assassinated couple's bodies. As of April 2007, their son Valentin has lost a lawsuit asking for investigation on this matter. The elder son Nicu Ceauşescu, deceased in 1996, is buried close by in the same cemetery but has a more substantial grave. According to Jurnalul Naţional, requests were made by their daughter and supporters of their political views to move them to mausoleums or churches built for the purpose of housing their remains, but such requests were denied by the Romanian state.

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