<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_Revolution" id="mwAWI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Romanian Revolution">Romanian Revolution</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism" id="mwAWM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Communism">Communist</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Romania" id="mwAWQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="President of Romania">President of Romania</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceaușescu" id="mwAWU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nicolae Ceaușescu">Nicolae Ceaușescu</a> is overthrown by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Iliescu" id="mwAWY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ion Iliescu">Ion Iliescu</a> after days of bloody confrontations. The deposed dictator and his wife Elena flee <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucharest" id="mwAWc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Bucharest">Bucharest</a> in a helicopter as protesters erupt in cheers.<sup about="#mwt178" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-32"}}' id="cite_ref-32" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_22#cite_note-32" id="mwAWg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 32;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAWk">[32]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-32"><cite about="#mwt175" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFJouffroy-Lucien_Radel1990">Jouffroy-Lucien Radel (1990). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=j3InAQAAMAAJ" id="mwCJQ" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwCJU">Reconstructing the Western Alliance: Europe &amp; the U.S.A.</i></a> Lakesider Publishing Company. p.<span id="mwCJY" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>74. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwCJc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwCJg" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-9625359-0-1" id="mwCJk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-9625359-0-1"><bdi id="mwCJo">978-0-9625359-0-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt175" class="Z3988" id="mwCJs" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Reconstructing+the+Western+Alliance%3A+Europe+%26+the+U.S.A.&amp;rft.pages=74&amp;rft.pub=Lakesider+Publishing+Company&amp;rft.date=1990&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-9625359-0-1&amp;rft.au=Jouffroy-Lucien+Radel&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dj3InAQAAMAAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+22"></span></span>