Nicu ceausescu et nadia comaneci biography
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Everything the Romanian secret police knew about Nadia Comaneci
When the iconic gymnast Nadia Comaneci clandestinely left Romania in November 1989, Stejarel Olaru was a 17-year-old teenager who was already planning his own escape from the regime that Nicolae Ceausescu had led since the 1970s. However, he had little time to execute his plan, because just a month after the athlete’s escape the fall of the communist dictatorship was imminent. The Christmas Revolution — originating from the dictator’s order to shoot at the civilian population demonstrating in the city of Timisoara — broke out and on månad 25, Ceausescu and his wife Elena were shot.
Now a historian, political scientist, and writer, Olaru studied the history of his country’s intelligence services in depth, especially the Securitate (the secret police during the communist regime). In 2020 he wrote Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police: A Cold War Escape, published by Bloomsbury. The book, published earlier this yea
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Nadia Comaneci Defects to Hungary : May Wind Up in United States
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Nadia Comaneci, who charmed the world with her pixie face and flashy style at the 1976 Olympics, fled to Hungary from her native Romania in a pre-dawn dash to freedom, the state-run MTI news agency said today.
Comaneci, 28, who at age 14 scored the first perfect “10” in Olympic history in gymnastics, reportedly told border guards that her escape had been organized “in advance under the guidance of a Romanian man,” who was not further identified.
MTI said she told the guards she had left behind a “neatly furnished flat, a car and financial säkerhet for the sake of freedom.”
Her exact whereabouts were not immediately known.
Bela Karolyi, her coach 13 years ago in Montreal and a 1981 defector to the United States, urged her to make her way to amerika, “the country with the greatest respect for Nadia and at the same time a country still with the greatest opportunity.”
Her Olympic achieve
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Ceausescu son reportedly beat Comaneci
Champion gymnast Nadia Comaneci was repeatedly beaten during her five-year relationship with the son of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, her mother said Sunday. "I would like to hang him by his tongue and watch him die," said Alexandrina Comaneci, whose daughter won three gold medals and scored a perfect "10" at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal.
Mrs. Comaneci revealed details of the relationship between her daughter and Nicu Ceausescu in an interview.
Beaten and stabbed by his revolutionary captors, Nicu, 39, is awaiting trial on genocide charges and is considered fortunate to have escaped his parents' fate _ execution by firing squad.
Mrs. Comaneci said Nicu dominated her daughter "body and soul" over a five-year period that culminated with Nadia's much-publicized escape from Romania to the United States weeks before the revolution.
She said Nicu first became obsessed with Nadia, now 28, when she was the country's leading sports per