A Romanian soldier guarding a passageway in the underground tunnel used by notorious Romanian secret police, or , in the House of the People days after the December 1989 uprising, which marked the end of dictator <PERSON>'s rule. In a brief but violent revolution that spread from Timisoara to Bucharest, during which more than 1,200 people died, <PERSON> and his regime were overthrown and the dictator and his wife <PERSON> summarily executed by firing squad.