Calling himself "Conducator" and carrying a sceptre, he maintained control with a secret police force, the Securitate.
While making his living as a shoemaker's apprentice and thief, he was caught stealing a suitcase of Communist recruitment flyers and mistakenly imprisoned with political dissidents at Doftana. While in jail he shared a cell with Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, whom he later succeeded. Calling himself "Conducator" and carrying a sceptre, he maintained control with a secret police force, the Securitate. For 10 points, , name this dictator, executed along with his wife Elena Petrescu in 1989, the long time Communist leader of Romania.
While making his living as a shoemaker's apprentice and thief, he was caught stealing a suitcase of Communist recruitment flyers and mistakenly imprisoned with political dissidents at Doftana.
Nicolae {Ceausescu}