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Romanian dictator Ceaușescu built a huge parliament building in Bucharest, with a big balcony for addressing the people, but was overthrown and killed before completion. The 1st person to use this balcony was Michael Jackson.

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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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1. 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.

2. 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".

3. About World War II-era Chernivtsi mayor Traian Popovici, who managed to save 20,000 Chernivtsi Jews (one-third of Chernivtsi's prewar Jewish population) from the Holocaust by convincing Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu not to deport them.

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. King Michael of Romania, notable for helping launch a successful coup against pro-Nazi Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu back in 1944, is still alive today and is currently in his early 90s.

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

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