Ceausescu’s Balcony

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This is the building of former Central Comitee (Romanian: Comitetul Central) . You can see right up the flags the famous balcony where dictator Ceausescu held his last speech in December 1989. From the roof of the building he and some of his men escaped on the 22nd of December with the help of a helicopter.

Nowadays the place is called Revolution Square (Romanian: Piata Revolutiei) and the building belongs to Romanian  Ministry of the Interior.