Nicolae Pantea four times the Romanian Cup and once the Romanian championship. In the last two years of his career, Nicolae Pantea played for Petrolul Ploieşti in Divizia B, winning the promotion to Divizia A in 1977. After a short period, Pantea announced his retirement. Nicolae Pantea made his debut for Romania in May 1971, against Albania. In his last match for the national team, he scored his first and only goal for "The Tricolours", winning the fifth goal in the match against Finland. Nicolae Pantea Nicolae Pantea (born 12 February 1946 in Beliu, Arad County) is a Romanian former footballer and
Nicolae Ceaușescu's cult of personality Nicolae Ceaușescu's cult of personality During the Cold War, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu presided over the most pervasive cult of personality within the Eastern Bloc. Inspired by the personality cult surrounding Kim Il-sung in North Korea, it started with the 1971 July Theses which reversed the liberalization of the 1960s and imposed a strict nationalist ideology, established Stalinist totalitarianism and a return to socialist realism. Initially, the cult of personality was just focused on Ceaușescu himself. By the early 1980s, however, his wife, Elena Ceaușescu—one of the few wives of a Communist leader to become a power in her own