Advertisement25 Years After Death, A Dictator Still Casts A Shadow In RomaniaDecember 24, 2014Soraya Sarhaddi NelsonfacebookEmailRomanian President Nicolae Ceausescu speaks forcefully to the Romanian Communist Party in Bucharest in November 1989. His wife, Elena, sits next to him (left). The following month, Ceausescu was overthrown and he and his wife were executed on Christmas Day. (Sygma/Corbis)