The History of Romania in One Object / Ceaușescu's Personality Cult in Paintings

With the strident personality cult that accompanied Nicolae Ceaușescu’s grip to power, our history saga arrives at one of its most dramatic milestones: the last decades of the communist dictatorship, when the descent into economic malaise, moral decay and diplomatic isolation was masked by a grotesque glorification of the country’s supreme leaders, Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu, who in a matter of days in December 1989 would trade this engineered adulation for the bullets of a firing squad. 

Video presentation and text by historian Cornel Ilie, Deputy Director of the National History Museum of Romania.

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Historian Cornel Ilie is currently Deputy Director of The National History Museum of Romania in Bucharest. Dr. Ilie published several books among which Între Bellu și Montparnasse. Români celebri în fața morții / Between Bellu and Montparnasse.…