What is Nicolae Ceaușescu?
{{Infobox President | name = Nicolae Ceauşescu | image = Nicolae Ceaușescu.jpg | nationality = [[Romanians|Romanian]] | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1918|01|26}} | birth_place = [[Scorniceşti]], [[Olt County|Olt]], [[Romania]] | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1989|12|25|1918|01|26}} | death_place = [[Târgovişte]], [[Dâmboviţa County|Dâmboviţa]], Romania | spouse = [[Elena Ceaușescu]] | children = [[Valentin Ceauşescu]], [[Zoia Ceauşescu]], [[Nicu Ceauşescu]] | order = General Secretary of the [[Romanian Communist Party]] | term_start = 22 March 1965 | term_end = 22 December 1989 | predecessor = [[Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej]] | successor = ''Party abolished'' | party = [[Communist Party of Romania]] | vicepresident = | order2 = 7th [[President of Romania]] | term_start2 = 9 December 1967 | term_end2 = 22 December 1989 | predecessor2 = [[Chivu Stoica]] | successor2 = [[Ion Iliescu]] | caption = | signature = Nicolae Ceaușescu Signature 2.svg }} '''Nicolae Ceauşescu''' ({{pronounced|ni.koˈla.e tʃa.uˈʃes.ku}}; 26 January 1918 – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian communist dictator from 1965 until 1989. After the [[Romanian Revolution of 1989]] he was deposed, tried and publicly [[executed]] by a [[firing squad]] along with his wife [[Elena Ceaușescu]]. He had been the only Communist dictator of [[Eastern Europe]] who had been charged for [[crimes against humanity]] and [[genocide]] during the [[revolution]]s of 1989. As of 2024, his execution was the last one on Romanian soil.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The abolition of capital punishment in Europe|url=http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/europe.html|access-date=2021-01-21|website=www.capitalpunishmentuk.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-G3qDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA182|title=Revolution and Change in Central and