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Elena Ceauşescu
wife of Nicolae Ceauşescu
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Romanian history
- In Nicolae Ceaușescu
In 1939 he married Elena Petrescu, a Communist activist. While in prison, Ceaușescu became a protégé of his cell mate, the Communist leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who would become the undisputed Communist leader of Romania beginning in 1952. Escaping prison in August 1944 shortly before the Soviet occupation of Romania,…
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