For 10 points, name this dictator who led Romania from 1967 to 1989.
This leader sent disabled or homeless children to children's homes in places like Cighic and Siret. As a result of this leader's Decree 770, women who gave birth to ten or more children were declared "heroine mothers." In this leader's final speech, a crowd taunted him by chanting "Timisoara," in reference to a recent uprising. This man urged for an intensification of socialist ideology in a 1971 speech that was named the (*) July Theses. This man succeeded Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej as the head of his country's Communist Party, and he employed the Securitate secret police. This man and his wife Elena were executed on live TV on Christmas Day 1989 after attempting to flee the country. For 10 points, name this dictator who led Romania from 1967 to 1989.
This leader sent disabled or homeless children to children's homes in places like Cighic and Siret.
Nicolae Ceausescu 