Valentin ceausescu biography
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182. Report Prepared in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State1
Washington, August 18, 1977
CEAUSESCU’S LEADERSHIP POSITION
Summary
Romanian President and party boss Nicolae Ceausescu has concentrated more power in his own hands than has any other Warsaw Pact leader; his control of the party and state apparatus is seemingly unassailable. There have been indications, however, of a steady erosion in the extent of support he enjoys both within the party and among the population at large.
Ceausescu’s handling of the aftermath of the earthquake which struck Romania in March—he completely dominated the relief and reconstruction activities—highlighted and increased the gap between him and the rest of the party leadership. Since then, his intensification of an already blatant personality cult and his failure to modify unpopular economic policies have further alienated a dissatisfied public. The June 13 riot at Bucharest’s “August 23” stadium and the coa
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Valentin Ceaușescu
Romanian physicist (born 1947)
Valentin Ceaușescu (born 17 February 1947) is a Romanian physicist. He is the eldest and only surviving child of former communist President Nicolae Ceaușescu and Elena Ceaușescu.
Biography
[edit]Early life and education
[edit]Valentin Ceaușescu was born in Bucharest on 17 February 1947. His father, future President Nicolae Ceaușescu, was an active member of the Romanian Workers' Party, earning himself various political and military positions; he was the country's Minister of Agriculture at the time Valentin was born. His mother was Elena Ceaușescu (née Petrescu). He had two siblings: Zoia, born in 1949 and Nicu, born in 1951.
Unlike many other members of his family, including his younger brother, Nicu, Valentin was not involved in politics. After graduating in 1965 from the Dr. Petru Groza High School,[1] he enrolled in the Faculty of Physics of the University of Bucharest. In 1967, he decided to pursue fu
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