The next day, Ceausescu fled the capital. He was subsequently captured and executed three days later, on Christmas Day, in Targoviste. About 1,200 people died and around 4,000 were seriously ...

Veteran journalist and author Edward Behr spent a year investigating the rise and fall of Nicolae Ceausescu Executed on Christmas Day 1989 Ceausescu was once a hero to his own people and in the ...