ROMANIA COMMUNISM COLLAPSE ANNIVERSARY
In this picture taken on Dec. 15, 2009, men sit at tables in a village bar bearing the picture of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu on the wall along with other communist era symbols in Scornicesti, southern Romania, the birth place of Ceausescu. This week Romanians commemorate 20 years since communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu fled Bucharest during a popular uprising on Dec. 22, 1989, after ruling Romania for 25 years. Ceausescu was executed together with his wife Elena on Dec. 25, 1989.More than a thousand people are reported to have lost their lives during the Romanian revolution.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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