Censorship in Communist Romania Censorship in Communist Romania Censorship in Communist Romania is the censorship in the Socialist Republic of Romania, in two stages: the first Communist president Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej period (1947-1965) and the second and the last Communist president Nicolae Ceauşescu period (1965-1989). The Romanian Communist Party (PCR) was not even popular back then, and thus, the Romanian society was not highly censored under the democracy before the World War II period. Up until the beginning of World War ΙΙ, Romania had a tendency to become closer to Western European countries; Romania tried to establish a free market economy, people had an access
Nicolae Militaru The following day over a thousand soldiers and officers assembled in Bucharest, and Militaru was dismissed on February 16, replaced by General Victor Stănculescu. He ran in the 1996 presidential election, winning 0.22% of the vote. He died of cancer the next month on December 27, 1996. Nicolae Militaru Nicolae Militaru (November 10, 1925 – December 27, 1996) was a Romanian general who served as Defense Minister between December 1989 and February 1990. A graduate of the M. V. Frunze Military Academy in Moscow, he commanded the Romanian Land Forces' 2nd Army from 1969 to 1978. That year, under suspicion