For 10 points, name this Warsaw Pact nation where Nikolae Ceauşescu ruled from Bucharest.
This nation's "systematization" policy demolished villages with "nonviable" population sizes below 1000 and leveled eight square miles of its capital. A1953 hiatus halted the work of its southeastern prison camps on what Ion Carja called the "Canal of Death," and it carried out mass deportations to its Baragan plain. After Decree 770 all but banned contraception and abortion here, abusive orphanages such as Cighid filled with babies. Its secret police force, the Securitate, was founded during the rise of Ghorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, whose erratic successor built the Palace of the People, inspired street protests in Timişoara, and accompanied his wife Elena to their televised execution on Christmas day 1989. For 10 points, name this Warsaw Pact nation where Nikolae Ceauşescu ruled from Bucharest.
This nation's "systematization" policy demolished villages with "nonviable" population sizes below 1000 and leveled eight square miles of its capital.
Romania [accept People's Republic of Romania; accept Socialist Republic of Romania]