Nicolae Ceausescu

ABOUT NICOLAE CEAUSESCU

Communist Party leader and President of Romania during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. He and his wife were shot to death during the Romanian Revolution by anti-communist forces. He was the first president of Romania.

By the time he was twenty years old, he had been arrested on numerous occasions for his communist activities.

He issued a 1966 decree that criminalized abortion in Romania; this was his attempt to reverse the problem of population decline in his native country.

With his wife Elena, he raised three children: physicist Valentin Ceaușescu, mathematician Zoia Ceaușescu, and politician Nicu Ceaușescu.

He was born in the same year as Salvadoran political leader and fellow communist Cayetano Carpio .