Zoe ceausescu biography

Ceausescu’s daughter, the eternal collateral victim 02/06/2012

Zoia Ceausescu, the daughter of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu, was subjected to pressure her entire life. From the outset, her destiny was in the hands of her parents, who wanted to control her and “arrange” her life. Even her name was politically motivated. Although he would later become an anti-Russian patriot, Nicolae Ceausescu named her Zoia in honour of the Soviet heroine Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, a partisan executed by the Germans. Born on 1st March 1949, Zoia entered adolescence just as her father was fighting to gain control over the Romanian Communist Party and the country.
Tensions between mother and daughter
As Nicolae Ceausescu was already a megalomaniac by then, and Elena gave herself carte blanche, one of the couple’s first victims was their very own daughter. Just like their parents, in the presidential couple’s vision, their children had to be “geniuses”, “fighters”, “heroes amongst heroes” and “great thinkers”. Yet Zoia Ceausescu was as normal as possible. While Nicu Ceausescu and Valentin were allowed to get away with much more, probably because, “Well, boys will be boys”, Zoia’s life was strictly controlled and the daughter of the General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party was practically locked away in a golden cage. Of course, she enjoyed material advantages that would have been beyond the wildest dreams of Romanians at that time. At the beginning of the 70s, she drove about in a white, two-seater cabriolet Mercedes, a present from the Iranian Shahanshah Reza Pahlavi. On the other side of the coin, however, her personal life was monitored, and she was forbidden from doing a whole host of things. Her romantic relationships ended badly: the Securitate “hacked into her entourage”. It was rumoured that Petre

Romanian physicist and politician (1951–1996)

Nicu Ceaușescu (Romanian pronunciation:[ˈnikutʃe̯a.uˈʃesku]; 1 September 1951 – 26 September 1996) was a Romanian physicist and communist politician who was the youngest child of Romanian leaders Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu. He was a close associate of his father's political regime and considered the President's heir presumptive.

Life during communism

According to Ion Mihai Pacepa (who defected to the United States in 1978), Ceaușescu wanted Nicu to become his Foreign Minister and for that, he instructed two high-ranked Party members, Ștefan Andrei and Cornel Pacoste (whom he considered brilliant communist intellectuals) to take care of Nicu's education; Pacepa further claimed that, unlike his older siblings, he disliked school and was allegedly derided by them for never being seen reading a book.

He graduated from Liceul no. 24 (now named Jean Monnet High School) and then studied physics at the University of Bucharest. He was involved in Uniunea Tineretului Comunist while a student, becoming its First Secretary and then Minister of Youth Issues, being elected to the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party in 1982.

As an apprentice in politics, he was mentored by Ștefan Andrei, Ion Traian Ștefănescu and Cornel Pacoste. Toward the end of the 1980s, he was made a member of the Executive Committee of the Romanian Communist Party and in 1987 the leader for Sibiu County, being prepared by his parents to be his father's successor.

Post-communist life and legacy

Since high school, Nicu was reputed to be a heavy drinker. Pacepa alleged that Nicu scandalized Bucharest with his rapes and car accidents. He claimed that his father heard about Nicu's drinking problem, but his solution was to work harder. He also allegedly lost large sums of money gambling around th

182. Report Prepared in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State1

CEAUSESCU’S LEADERSHIP POSITION

Summary

Romanian President and party boss Nicolae Ceausescu has concentrated more power in his own hands than has any other Warsaw Pact leader; his control of the party and state apparatus is seemingly unassailable. There have been indications, however, of a steady erosion in the extent of support he enjoys both within the party and among the population at large.

Ceausescu’s handling of the aftermath of the earthquake which struck Romania in March—he completely dominated the relief and reconstruction activities—highlighted and increased the gap between him and the rest of the party leadership. Since then, his intensification of an already blatant personality cult and his failure to modify unpopular economic policies have further alienated a dissatisfied public. The June 13 riot at Bucharest’s “August 23” stadium and the coal miners’ strike in western Romania in early August reflect a considerable degree of popular frustration and anger.

Although no immediate challenge to Ceausescu’s leadership position is likely, his isolation probably will grow, further hampering effective policy formulation and implementation. Within the next few years the resulting pressures could pose serious problems for Romania’s political stability.

Ceausescu’s Leadership Style

Ceausescu remains Eastern Europe’s most unusual Communist leader, integrating nationalism and Marxism in a uniquely Romanian blend. His domestic policies in recent years (he has ruled Romania for 12) increasingly have departed in significant ways from prevailing Soviet and East European norms. These deviations, while less publicized than his foreign policy initiatives, may be of greater importance in the long run for Romania’s stability and policy orientation.

Broadly speaking, the new internal political actions introduced by Ceausescu fall

Romanian mathematician (1949–2006)

Zoia Ceaușescu (Romanian pronunciation:[ˈzojatʃe̯a.uˈʃesku]; 28 February 1949 – 20 November 2006) was a Romanian mathematician, the daughter of Communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena. She was also known as Tovarășa Zoia (comrade Zoia).

Biography

Zoia Ceaușescu studied at High School nr. 24 (now Jean Monnet High School [ro]) in Bucharest and graduated in 1966. She then continued her studies at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Bucharest. She received her Ph.D. in 1977 with thesis On Intertwining Dilations written under the direction of Ciprian Foias. Ceaușescu worked as a researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest starting in 1974. Her field of specialization was functional analysis. Allegedly, her parents were unhappy with their daughter's choice of doing research in mathematics, so the Institute was disbanded in 1975. She moved on to work for Institutul pentru Creație Științifică și Tehnică (INCREST, Institute for Scientific and Technical Creativity), where she eventually started and headed a new department of mathematics. In 1976, Ceaușescu received the Simion Stoilow Prize for her outstanding contributions to the mathematical sciences.

She was married in 1980 to Mircea Oprean, an engineer and professor at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest.

During the Romanian Revolution, on 24 December 1989, she was arrested for "undermining the Romanian economy", and released eight months later, on 18 August 1990. After she was freed, she tried unsuccessfully to return to her former job at INCREST, then gave up and retired. After the revolution, some newspapers reported that she had lived a wild life, having numerous lovers and often being drunk.

After her parents were executed, the new government confiscated the house where she and her husband