Eastern Bloc abolished provisions guaranteeing the ruling Communist party its leading role. President Gustáv Husák appointed the first largely non-Communist government in Czechoslovakia since 1948, and resigned, in what was called the Velvet Revolution. Romania had rejected de-Stalinization. Following growing public protests, dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu ordered a mass rally in his support outside Communist Party headquarters in Bucharest. But mass protests against Ceauşescu proceeded. The Romanian military sided with protesters and turned on Ceauşescu. They executed him after a brief trial three days later. Even before the Bloc's last years, all of the countries in the Warsaw Pact did not always act
Nicolae Dudău Nicolae Dudău Nicolae Dudau (born December 19, 1945) is a Moldovan politician and was the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Moldova. He was born on December 19, 1945 in Grinauti, Ocnița District, in the Moldovan SSR. From 1988 to 1990 he was the Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the Moldovan SSR. From 1990 to 1991 he was the First Secretary of the Chisinau City Committee of the Communist Party of Moldova. In 1994 he became the Ambassador of Moldova to Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. In 1997, Daudu was appointed the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs