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Mistakenly believing that the crowd at his final speech was adoring him, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was witnessing mass protests forcing him and his wife to escape their palace by helicopter. 4 days later they were tried and executed.

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Nicolae Ceaușescu, the Stalinist dictator of Romania was captured and put on trial on Christmas morning after a few days, given ten minutes to prepare his defense with his counsel, convicted by the afternoon and executed at 4 PM the same day

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1. Exactly 25 years ago today, 25 December 1989, Nicolae Ceaușescu, the last dictator of Romania, together with his wife, was executed by firing squad after a two-hour trial.

2. In Bucharest in the 1980s under communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, engineers moved complete buildings hundreds of metres on metal tracks to preserve the Romanian capital’s architectural heritage.

3. Elena Ceausescu, wife of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and a self proclaimed world class chemist, was nicknamed "codoi", her alleged mispronounciation of CO2 ("doi" means two in Romanian). Adding to the humour, "codoi" is an actual word in Romanian, meaning "big tail".

4. The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania, is the third largest building by volume in the world. Built by dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, it required the demolition of thousands of historic buildings and the eviction of 40,000 residents. Today the palace is 70% empty.

5. Elena Ceausescu, wife of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, in 1989 became the last woman in Europe to be executed by judicial ruling.

6. Nicolae Ceauşescu, the Romanian dictator, was awarded the Gold Collar of the Olympic Order in 1984, the highest award of the IOC, for not joining the Soviet-led boycott of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Ceauşescu was eventually charged by a show trial with genocide and executed in 1989.

7. Romania's Soviet backed dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu banned the board game scrabble deeming it 'too intellectual.'

8. Romanian television conducted a poll to find out who Romanians consider the top 100 Best Romanians of all time. Fascist Dictator Ion Antonescu took 6th place and Communist Dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu took 11th.

9. Romanian dictator Nicolae Caușescu decided to get rid of the Romanian letter "â" and replace it with "î"

10. The decree for organizing the trial of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena was handwritten in a bathroom.