The world's second largest building, and monument to the folly of Romania's communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, could be turned into a shopping mall under new proposals. Ceausescu's Peoples ...

Initially, the building was derided as a folly, an embarrassment of riches in one of Europe's poorest capitals. The cost of completing it was said to be Ceausescu's revenge. Now that the palace is ...

For this is the house that Ceausescu built, the Romanian communist dictator better known as the Butcher of Bucharest, who ruled the country with an iron fist for nearly 25 years until 1989.

BUCHAREST, Romania – Romanians nostalgic for the communist era have gathered at the grave of former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, who were tried and executed on Christmas Day twenty ...

Amid the international censure of Nicolae Ceausescu, and the rush to recognize the revolutionaries who deposed and executed him, it seems hard to recall that Ceausescu, like Gen. Manuel Antonio ...

BUCHAREST -- It's been nearly half a century since Romanian communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu decided to build the House of the Republic in the heart of Bucharest. It was to be Europe's largest ...

The opulent former residence of Romania's former leader Nicolae Ceausescu is to open its doors to visitors. It's been a quarter of a century since deposed Romanian president Ceausescu and his wife ...

The narrator of Patrick McGuinness's first novel, "The Last Hundred Days," arrives in Bucharest during the final months of Nicolae Ceausescu's Romania with a strange sense of optimism. This is ...

Life in Ceausescu's Romania was lived in the shadow of his feared secret police force - the Securitate. Hear one child's story. Show more During the communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu ...