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In the late 1980's, English newspapers were full of stories of how the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was laying waste the historic villages of Romania. There followed an international outcry against such brutal, architectural vandalism. Full Article at Deutsche Welle
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If you thought the blows of the sledgehammers that helped knock down the Berlin Wall 20 years ago were powerful, you should have seen the pats on the back European Union leaders gave themselves standing near the site. Full Article at New Europe News
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With the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall earlier this week, the news was filled with images of that epoch-ending night, and of the equally historic events that led up to and followed it. Full Article at Boston Globe
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Twenty years ago, the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the beginning of the end of Communism in Europe. Across Eastern Europe, the people came out in public revolt against the regimes - including the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania. Full Article at BBC News
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Bucharest -- Once the butt of jokes the world over, communist-era East European goods from sweets, to rustic washing machines and clunky cars are all the rage again. Full Article at Expatica
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Once the butt of jokes the world over, communist-era East European goods from sweets, to rustic washing machines and clunky cars are all the rage again. Full Article at Sydney Morning Herald
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Nicolae Ceausescu's "Palace of the People," now the Romanian parliament building, Bucharest Bucharest, Romania, in the rain Bucharest, Romania Old City, Bucharest, Romania Old City, Bucharest, Romania Transylvania, Romania Medieval clock tower,... Full Article at Michael J. Totten
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BUCHAREST (Reuters Life!) - Got 48 hours to explore Bucharest, with its rare mixture of western architectural ideas, eastern imagery and 20th century totalitarian megalomania? Full Article at ABC News
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Belgium's Queen Paola tastes local food during a visit to Cristian village in Romania, July 9, 2009. Full Article at Global Post
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At the forefront of a new wave of Romanian film-makers who survived the Ceausescu regime, Cristian Mungiu is now ready to present the funny side of a grim era, he tells DONALD CLARKE CRISTIAN MUNGIU doesn’t look much like the figurehead of a major... Full Article at Irish Times
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Ceausescu had money to burn on a monstrous palace in Bucharest Photo: GETTY Meanwhile his people had to subsist on meagre rations of basics such as sugar, flour and cooking oil, and at times just one piece of meat per person a month Photo: GETTY... Full Article at The Telegraph
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Three weeks ago, when the Nobel committee awarded its literature prize to Romanian writer Herta Muller, it lauded her courageous and unflinching fictional portraits of "daily life in a stagnated dictatorship" in communist Romania. Full Article at Los Angeles Times
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The fall of communism was as decisive a turning point in modern history as the French or Russian revolutions. Full Article at The Nation
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The camera slowly pans across the faces of the executed, across the waxy face of the woman, surrounded by a trail of blood in the dust of the barrack yard, and across the face of her husband, his eyes wide open in the moment of death. Full Article at ABC News
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"I listened to Radio Free Europe several times a day, and those who did not do so were idiots." So says Herta Müller, acclaimed author and winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. Full Article at Spero News
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The fall of the Iron Curtain manifested itself violently 20 years ago in Romania, with the execution of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife. Full Article at Spiegel Online
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Romanian-born author Herta Mueller, who won the 2009 Nobel Prize for literature, grew up under dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Full Article at Spero News
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BUCHAREST, Romania – Even his best friend betrayed him. Stelian Tanase found out when he asked to see the thick file that Romania’s communist-era secret police had kept on him. Full Article at Nashua Telegraph
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BUCHAREST, Romania -- Even his best friend betrayed him. Stelian Tanase found out when he asked to see the thick file that Romania's communist-era secret police had kept on him. Full Article at GoErie.com
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BUCHAREST, Romania - Even his best friend betrayed him. Stelian Tanase found out when he asked to see the thick file that Romania's communist-era secret police had kept on him. Full Article at Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor
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Actor Ethan Hawke, left, speaks to Palme d'Or winner Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, right, at the late Romanian communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's palace, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday night, Oct. 31, 2009.
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Actor Ethan Hawke speaks at the late Romanian communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's palace, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday night, Oct. 31, 2009.
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Actor Ethan Hawke, right, reacts as his mother Leslie Hawke, left, looks on at the late Romanian communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's palace, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday night, Oct. 31, 2009.
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Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller autographs a book after a news conference in Berlin October 8, 2009. Mueller, who charted the hardships and humiliations of Nicolae Ceausescu's brutal regime, won the 2009 Nobel literature prize for depicting the 'landscape of the dispossessed'.
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Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller attends a news conference in Berlin October 8, 2009. Mueller, who charted the hardships and humiliations of Nicolae Ceausescu's brutal regime, won the 2009 Nobel literature prize for depicting the 'landscape of the dispossessed'.
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Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller stands with flowers before a news conference in Berlin October 8, 2009. Mueller, who charted the hardships and humiliations of Nicolae Ceausescu's brutal regime, won the 2009 Nobel literature prize for depicting the 'landscape of the dispossessed'.
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Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller attends a news conference in Berlin October 8, 2009. Mueller, who charted the hardships and humiliations of Nicolae Ceausescu's brutal regime, won the 2009 Nobel literature prize for depicting the 'landscape of the dispossessed'.
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