In 1989 Romania’s communist regime led by Nicolae Ceaușescu was overthrown, marking the end of communist rule and leading to free elections in 1990. Ceaușescu had ruled Romania since 1965; after an early period of relative liberalization, which included a somewhat independent foreign policy, he followed a harder line from the 1970s onward.
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