Elena Ceausescu

Elena Ceaușescu was a Romanian communist politician, the wife of Nicolae Ceaușescu, General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party and leader of the Socialist Republic of Romania. She served as First Deputy Prime Minister of Romania and was a member of the Romanian Communist Party. Following the Romanian Revolution, she was executed alongside her husband on December 25, 1989. Elena was born into a peasant family and moved to Bucharest where she worked in a textile factory before becoming active in the Communist Party. She married Nicolae Ceaușescu in 1946 and rose to significant power within the Romanian government, often accompanying her husband on state visits and assuming a prominent role in national politics. Her policies and influence contributed to the strict regime that led to the eventual revolution and her execution.