Ilie Ceauşescu was a Romania

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n army general and communist

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 politician who served as Deputy Defence Minister of Communist Romania

Communist Romania

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 during the rule of his older brother, Nicolae Ceauşescu

Nicolae Ceausescu

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.

Ilie's military and political career was helped by Nicolae; between 1980 and 1989, he was a member of the Central Committee

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 of the Romanian Communist Party

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, and, in 1982-1989, he was Deputy Minister of Defense.

Ilie Ceauşescu was also a historian, and he influenced Nicolae in establishing Protochronism

Protochronism

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 as Romania's official historiography

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 and an important part of the national propaganda

Propaganda

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 system. For instance, he claimed that the Romanian people

Romanians

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 have been always the same since time immemorial, being very little influenced by other people (Romans

Ancient Rome

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, Slavs, Mongols

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) etc.:

"It is well known that the Romanian people remained always the same, consolidated, unitary and homogeneous in the hearth it had always occupied."

After the 1989 Romanian Revolution and the execution of Nicolae Ceauşescu, he retired from public life, and died 13 years later at the age of 76. At the time, it was revealed that Ilie Ceauşescu was involved in a series of transactions between the United States

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 and Romania, which consisted of selling Soviet

Soviet Union

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 military technology. The deal was worth $40 million, part of which was deposited in Swiss

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 bank accounts

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English

• The entire people's war for the homeland's defence with the Romanians: From times of yore to present days, Military Publishing House, Bucharest, 1980
• Transylvania, an ancient Romanian land, Military Publishing House, Bucharest, 1983
• 23 August 1944: 200 days spared from World War II, Editura Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică, 1984
• From the Dacian state to socialist Romania: 2,000 years of statehood, Military Publishing House, Bucharest, 1985
• A Turning Point in World War II, East European Monographs, Boulder
  Boulder, Colorado
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  , 1985 ISBN 0880330848
• Independence - a fundamental aim of the Romanian people: Traditions, present features, prospects Military Publishing House, Bucharest, 1987
• Romanian Military Doctrine, East European Monographs, Boulder, 1988 ISBN 0880331356

Romanian

• Transilvania: Străvechi pamînt românesc, Ed. Militară, Bucharest, 1984 (with Florin Constantiniu and Mihail E. Ionescu)
• Mobilitate socială, Ed. Academiei, Bucharest, 1973