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Romania’s rocky road from the Ceaușescu dictatorship to fragile democracy</a>

Romania’s rocky road from the Ceaușescu dictatorship to fragile democracy

Romania's communist system developed into the bloodiest system in Europe after World War II. Ceaușescu ruled the country with state terror. As a result, a civil society could not properly develop in Romania in this period. Ceaușescu's foreign policy showed some distance from the Soviet Union in order to get economic aid from Western countries, but his erratic economic policy drove Romania into a long-lasting crisis.