Name Ilie Ceausescu | ||
Died October 1, 2002, Bucharest, Romania Books A turning point in World War II, 23 August 1944 in Romania Parents Andruta Ceausescu, Alexandrina Ceausescu Siblings Nicolae Ceausescu, Marin Ceausescu Nieces Zoia Ceausescu, Gabriela, Mihaela Similar People Nicolae Ceausescu, Marin Ceausescu, Elena Ceausescu, Nicu Ceausescu, Valentin Ceausescu | ||
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Ilie Ceaușescu (8 June 1926 – 1 October 2002) was a Romanian army general and communist politician who served as Deputy Defence Minister of Communist Romania during the rule of his older brother, Nicolae Ceaușescu.
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Ilie's military and political career was helped by Nicolae; between 1980 and 1989, he was a member of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party, and, in 1982-1989, he was Deputy Minister of Defense.
Ilie Ceaușescu was also a historian, and he influenced Nicolae in establishing Protochronism as Romania's official historiography and an important part of the national propaganda system. For instance, he claimed that the Romanian people have been always the same since time immemorial, being very little influenced by other people (Romans, Slavs, Mongols) etc.:
"It is well known that the Romanian people remained always the same, consolidated, unitary and homogeneous in the hearth it had always occupied."
After the Romanian Revolution and the execution of Nicolae Ceaușescu, he retired from public life, and died 13 years later at the age of 76. At the time, it was revealed that Ilie Ceaușescu was involved in a series of transactions between the United States and Romania, which consisted of selling Soviet military technology. The deal was worth $40 million, part of which was allegedly deposited in Swiss bank accounts.
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