The events of December 1989 brought the hope of a real collapse of communism and a return to the political system before 1947. The prohibition of King Michael's return to the country and the political reality of the 90’s brought Ștefan Davidescu to the conclusion that the communist system has disappeared only partially from the Romanian society and its effects are still present.

In 2002 and 2003, he wrote and published two volumes of memoirs in which he details his journey through investigations, his trial and, inevitably, the violent action that took place in Pitești prison. Recalling those terrible experiences consumed him, speeding up his death. Ștefan Davidescu died in 2003 at the age of 76.

Before the Ceaușescu couple fled:
126 dead and 1107 wounded

After the Ceaușescu couple fled:
978 dead and 2214 wounded

On the 25th of December, Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu were sentenced to death by an Extraordinary Military Tribunal. After a brief improvised trial, they were executed in Târgoviște. Power was taken over by the National Salvation Front Council, led by Ion Iliescu, a notable former communist party official.

The events of December 1989 are still highly controversial in Romanian society, being seen as either a revolution, a coup d'état, or a hybrid of the two. While the rest of Eastern European countries saw a peaceful collapse of communism, Romania was the only case where the 1989 regime change was bathed in blood.