Marin Ceaușescu (2 February 1916 – 28 December 1989) was a

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n economist and diplomat, the older brother of Communist Romania's

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Nicolae Ceaușescu Nicolae Ceaușescu ( , ; – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian communist politician and dictator. He was the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and the second and last Communist leader of Romania. He ...

. He was born in 1916 in

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, the son of Andruță and Lixandra (née Militaru) Ceaușescu. After completing 4 years of school, he decided not to pursue his studies, but to help instead his parents with the farm work. In 1935 he joined the Romanian Communist Party. He later graduated from the Academy of Economic Studies in

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. Starting in 1974, Ceaușescu headed the Romanian Economic Agency in

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. He was believed to have been the conduit through whom Nicolae transferred millions of

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"Rumania Unfinished Revolution"
in ''

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'', January 8, 1990 He was found

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in the basement of the Romanian Embassy in Vienna, three days after his brother was executed in the

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of December 1989. It was ruled a suicide by police. Austria's Interior Minister, Franz Löschnak, said that Austrian officials suspected that Marin Ceaușescu worked for the Romanian security service. "Upheaval in the East, Brother of Ceausescu Was Suspected as Spy"
in ''

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'', January 1, 1990 He left two daughters, Mihaela (m. Moraru) and Gabriela.

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* Marian Ghițeanu
"Marin Ceaușescu a fost împins spre sinucidere" ("Marin Ceaușescu Was Goaded into Suicide")
in ''

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