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Nicolae Ceausescu becomes Communist Party leader in Romania
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Austerity programme leads to food shortages and widespread power cuts.
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Army occupies power plants and crushes workers' demonstrations in Brasov.
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Start of Soviet Collapse
The U.S. and the Soviet Union signed the Geneva accords which stated that the Soviet Union had to back out of Afghanistan and Pakistan within the year. This showed Romania that the Soviet Union was failing. -
The Start of the Romanian Revolution
The Romanian Revolution started on December 16th, 1989 in a city named Timisaora. The Warsaw Pact countries broke up and the communistic government the country had relied on went away. The protestants broke out in rampage and thus the revolution began. -
Protests in the District Building
As the days went on more and more protests began to arise. There were protesters who entered the District Building and began to destroy things that were there and things that they knew were important. This was an effect of the citizens feeling lost and angry from the abandonment of communism. -
Secret police attacked
The secret police entered the city of Timisoara where they patrolled the streets trying to create order. They then recited all the laws and when they found citizens breaking laws they attacked them. -
Ceausescu ran away
Although Ceausescu had already been planning on traveling to Iran to meet with their leader and plan things, once the protests began he didn't think twice about leaving and got away in order to escape the trouble. -
The attempt to go back to normal
After the protests had began, Ceausescu's political team tried to get things back to normal. They attempted to have the workers of Timisoara to return to their jobs and to their work, but they failed. -
Ceausescu comes back to Romania
Finally Ceausescu returned to Romania only to find a very unorganized, disfunctional nation. He then made a speech on TV talking about how the protests were very bad, and got in the way of peace. -
Attack on Ceausescu
Many of the protesters were mad about everything that Ceausescu had said about them and so they decided to do something about it. They broke into his office and destroyed everything, but Ceausescu got away in his helicopter which was on the roof. -
Killing of Ceausescu
Ceausescu and his wife were captured and found guilty. Then only a few minutes after they were found guilty they were taken away and tied up. They were then killed by firing squad which left Romania a free nation.
