An expose entitled Red Horizons was written by one of his defecting intelligence officers, Ion Pacepa, contributing to the discontent that led to his downfall. High-ranking members of his party eventually denounced him in the "Letter of the Six," and a growing revolution in Timisoara spread throughout his country, partly inspired by concern over the mysterious death of his defense minister Vasile Milea, who may have been murdered by the Securitate. His policy, described under the term "systematization," was characterized by forced shortages and over-exportation as part of an austerity program to pay off foreign debt. 
An expose entitled Red Horizons was written by one of his defecting intelligence officers, Ion Pacepa, contributing to the discontent that led to his downfall. High-ranking members of his party eventually denounced him in the "Letter of the Six," and a growing revolution in Timisoara spread throughout his country, partly inspired by concern over the mysterious death of his defense minister Vasile Milea, who may have been murdered by the Securitate. His policy, described under the term "systematization," was characterized by forced shortages and over-exportation as part of an austerity program to pay off foreign debt. Coming into power after the death of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and being succeeded by Ion Iliescu, this is, FTP, what man who was executed with his wife Elena in 1989, a communist dictator of Romania?
An expose entitled Red Horizons was written by one of his defecting intelligence officers, Ion Pacepa, contributing to the discontent that led to his downfall.
Nicolae {Ceausescu}