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Ceauşescu Nicolae . 1918--89, Romanian statesman; chairman of the state council (1967--89) and president of Romania (1974--89): deposed and executed How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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All poems are sublimely translated into English; some are from the years of the tyrannical regime of Nicolae Ceausescu, others are during the cultural proliferation that followed. One former Roosevelt Island resident tells me the place reminds her of living in Romania as a child: "During the Ceausescu regime, they demolished certain cultural and religious buildings, and they were building a huge number of buildings that were all modernist--no uniqueness, just very sterile--to house the workers in the big factories. Under Nicolae Ceausescu we feared that the cathedral would be torn down or covered up, which was the policy towards churches at that time. |
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