Former Romanian President Ion Iliescu Dies at 95: The Neo-Communist Who Chained Romania to Its Past
Former Romanian President Ion Iliescu dies at 95 in a Bucharest hospital. To millions, he was the engineer-turned-apparatchik who stepped from the shadows on 22 December 1989, after the so-called Revolution, promised democracy, then unleashed miners, riot police and recycled party elites to keep real change at bay. So many...
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