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Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej
Nicolae Ceauşescu
21st of September 1946 - Members of the Romanian government delegation that attended the Paris Peace Conference, seen in Predeal.
3rd of December 1950 - Gh.Gheorghiu Dej at Voting Section 426 in Bucharest (16 February sector, later Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej sector).
14th of March 1945 - F.N.D. Rally at a festival celebrating Northern Transylvania reuniting with democratic Romania. Images from Palace Square.
24th of June 1945 - Gh.Gheorghiu Dej speaking at the Plowman's Front Congress held on the A.N.E.F. Stadium in Bucharest (Petru Groza to the right)
1st of May 1953 - Petru Groza and Gheorghiu Dej in the central stand in Aviator Square, at the grand rally of the workers on the 1st of May.
Elena and Nicolae Ceauşescu on a 'work visit'
Elena and Nicolae Ceauşescu
August 1969
President Richard Nixon's visit to Romania
1978 - Nicolae Ceauşescu with President Jimmy Carter at the White House in Washington
1972 - Nicolae Ceauşescu receiving Fidel Castro in Bucharest
Despite being released in 1964, his return to society felt to him like imprisonment in a different kind of prison. He was constantly pursued, being repeatedly pressured, unsuccessfully, to become a collaborator of the political police.
He worked as a goods quality control officer until he retired, and he dedicated his spare time to sculpture, a craft he had learned in the first years of detention. The death of his wife, in 1984, left him without his main support to the pressures and intimidations he was subjected to by the Securitate.
Nicolae Purcărea writes his memoirs as a call of duty for the younger generation and dies in Brașov on December 25, 2015, at the age of 92.