Mircea Răceanu, the last person sentenced to death in Communist Romania

Abstract

On the 31of January 1989, the diplomat Mircea Răceanu was arrested while he was getting to the US Embassy in Bucharest. He was accused for betrayal and sent it to death. We present an official paper that is the position of Nicolae Ceaușescu toward Mircea Răceanu’s case, during the meeting of Executive Political Committee of Central Committee of Romanian Communist Party.

Keywords

• Romanian diplomat Mircea Răceanu
• Death penalty in Communist Romania
• Opposition against Nicolae Ceaușescu
• Fall of communism in Romania
• „Conspiracy theory”