First viewed : 14 May 1991
Eighteen months after his death, BBC One broadcast this documentary about the Romanian Communist dictator . It concentrated on how he employed propaganda to create a personality cult and was for a long time, feted by the West for his stand against the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Britain was no exception to this with Ceaucescu getting a ride with the Queen in 1978. Former French President D'Estaing featured on the programme recounting how the Ceaucescus had stripped their hotel of its ornaments and fittings when they came to Paris. The programme also showed faked footage of Ceaucescu's supposed hunting prowess and of course concluded with a shooting party of a rather different nature.
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