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Nicolae
Ceausescu during his TV trial, hours
before
his execution.
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Nicolae
Ceausescu was Communist dictator of Rumania from 1965-1989. Days
after his violent overthrow, he and wife Elena were executed on Christmas
Day, 1989.
Since
Ceausescu's rule encompassed Transylvania, protesters often portrayed him
as a vampire. One such caricature from The London Times is reprinted
in The
Spirit of Hungary, by Stephen Sisa, 3rd ed, p. 197.
Whether
or not Ceausescu was a real life vampire, he is one in Vampire
Nation.
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Nicholas
Dima's Journey
To Freedom offers this curious report on page 352:
"Those who know
[Ceausescu] personally insist that he cannot stand any Christian crosses
or religious blessings of any kind. The incident in Venezuela, when
he requested that the crucifix be removed from his room, was no accident.
Nor was it a coincidence that, at a luncheon given in his honor by a group
of New Orleans businessmen, he left the room because a pastor blessed the
food. In public view he even kicked and bitterly admonished Vasile
Pungan, his chief advisor, for not having informed him."
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regarded Vlad Tepes "Dracula" (1431-1476) as a national hero. He
even commemorated Dracula on a postage stamp in 1976, on the 500th anniversary
of Dracula's death. (Reproduced from In
Search of Dracula, by McNally & Florescu, Houghton Mifflin, 1994,
page 5.)
In
his Foreword to Kiss The Hand You Cannot Bite: The Rise and Fall of the Ceausescus, Ryszard
Kapuscinski describes the book as "a shocking account, full of revelations
and scandals about the communist Dracula"
For
more info, see Caligula
and Ceausescu from History House.
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