Nicolae Ceaușescu the country in the three days since the Ceaușescus fled Bucharest. Similarly, Victor Stănculescu, who had been defense minister before going over to the revolution, said in 2009 that the alternative would have been seeing the Ceaușescus lynched on the streets of Bucharest. The Ceaușescus were the last people to be executed in Romania before the abolition of capital punishment on 7 January 1990. Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu were originally buried in simple graves at Ghencea Cemetery in Bucharest, on opposite sides of a path; their graves were often decorated with flowers and symbols of communist rule. In April 2007,
Once Upon a Christmas Song Once Upon a Christmas Song "Once Upon a Christmas Song" was the second single by fictional character Geraldine McQueen from "Britain's Got the Pop Factor...", a mock talent contest/comedy by British comedian Peter Kay who also plays Geraldine. The CD was released on 15 December 2008, with the download available a day earlier. It was a charity single with proceeds going to the NSPCC. The song was co-written by Peter Kay and Gary Barlow. In 2016, an instrumental version of the song served as the theme tune to BBC One's compilation series "Peter Kay's Comedy Shuffle". The video for "Once