How to Pronounce Ilie Ceaușescu
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Jun 08, 1926 Scornicești, Olt County, Romania Died on 01 Oct 2002 (aged 76)
Romanian general and politician
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About Ilie Ceauescu
- Ilie Ceau?escu (8 June 1926 – 1 October 2002) was a Romanian army general and communist politician who was Deputy Defence Minister of Communist Romania during the rule of his older brother, Nicolae Ceau?escu. Ilie's military and political career was helped by Nicolae; between 1980 and 1989, he was a member of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party, and, in 1982-1989, he was Deputy Minister of Defense. Ilie Ceau?escu was also a historian, and he influenced Nicolae in establishing Protochronism as Romania's official historiography and an important part of the national propaganda system.
- For instance, he claimed that the Romanian people have been always the same since time immemorial, being very little influenced by other people (Romans, Slavs, Mongols) etc.: "It is well known that the Romanian people remained always the same, consolidated, unitary and homogeneous in the hearth it had always occupied." After the Romanian Revolution and the execution of Nicolae Ceau?escu, he retired from public life, and died 13 years later at the age of 76.
- At the time, it was revealed that Ilie Ceau?escu was involved in a series of transactions between the United States and Romania, which consisted of selling Soviet military technology.
- The deal was worth $40 million, part of which was allegedly deposited in Swiss bank accounts.
