Architect Gheorghe Leahu who designed Ceausescu’s giant palace and kept secret diary about hardships suffered under communism dies at 89

Romanian architect Gheorghe Leahu who designed Nicolae Ceausescu’s giant palace and his showpiece Unirea department store and also chronicled hardships of the communist regime at the same time, has died. He was 89. Stalinist wedding cake He was one of many architects who worked on Ceausescu’s giant House of the People which has been described … Continuă lectura Architect Gheorghe Leahu who designed Ceausescu’s giant palace and kept secret diary about hardships suffered under communism dies at 89