Nicolae Ceaușescu

1918 – 1989

Built an extreme personal dictatorship whose austerity, surveillance, and violent fall epitomized late communist state failure.

• 1918–1989

  Built an extreme personal dictatorship whose austerity, surveillance, and violent fall epitomized late communist state failure

  Built an extreme personal dictatorship whose austerity, surveillance, and violent fall epitomized late communist state failure.