Communists Want to Exhume Ceausescu
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Romanian Communists said they will seek approval to exhume the remains of Stalinist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu because they suspect that he might have been tortured before he was executed in 1989.
“We plan to ask authorities to allow us to exhume Ceausescu and his wife to bury them in a Christian way,” said Cristian Niculae of the Romanian Workers Party.
Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, were summarily tried by a hastily assembled military court, sentenced to death and executed by firing squad during Eastern Europe’s most violent anti-Communist revolt.
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