Two weeks before Nicolae Ceausescu was toppled from power, Soviet leader Mikail Gorbachev unsuccessfully appealed to Communist strongman to carry out reforms. Hardline leader Other regimes had collapsed and Romania’s Ceausescu was the last hardline leader left standing in the Communist bloc as 1989 came to an end. Mikail Gorbachev was unimpressed by the rigid … Continuă lectura Ceausescu, Gorbachev and the anti-atomic bunker that blocked the Romanian leader’s escape in 1989