Nicu Ceauşescu
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Nicu Ceauşescu (IPA /ˈni.ku ʧau.ˈʃes.ku/ (September 1, 1951 – September 25, 1996) was the third child of Romanian leader Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu. He was a close associate of his father's political regime and considered the President's heir apparent. Those were the wishes of his domineering mother.
His older siblings were Valentin (adopted, b. 1948) and Zoia (b. 1950).
[edit] Life during the communist rule
Nicu Ceauşescu was appointed Romanian Communist Party leader for Sibiu County in 1987, two years before his father was executed. In fact the truth was Nicuşor's (as his mother affectionately called him) behavior had gotten so out of hand, that his mother Elena Ceauşescu, who is considered to be, and definitely was in the 1980s the mastermind behind Nicolae, sent him away from Bucharest and away from his group of friends there.
Despite mostly invented tales of outrageous behavior, people in Sibiu experienced an increase in quality of life after his appointment in 1987. More food was available as he restricted exports from the county, electricity and gas outages occurred less often. He was also considered a reasonable person and several people approached him with personal demands, some of which were granted. Also, he stopped the plan of "city urbanization" (demolishing the houses and building blocks of flats instead). Because of this he was appreciated in Sibiu.
[edit] Postcommunist life and legacy
He was arrested in 1994, for misuse of Romanian government funds under his father's regime. He died in 1996 in a Vienna hospital from cirrhosis.
