Victor Stănculescu
- Birth Date:
- 10.05.1928
- Death date:
- 19.06.2016
- Length of life:
- 88
- Days since birth:
- 35054
- Years since birth:
- 95
- Days since death:
- 2872
- Years since death:
- 7
- Person's maiden name:
- Victor Atanasie Stănculescu
- Categories:
- Communist, Communist Party worker, General, Military person, Minister, Repression organizer, supporter
- Nationality:
- romanian
- Cemetery:
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Victor Atanasie Stănculescu (10 May 1928 – 19 June 2016) was a Romanian general during the Communist era.
He played a central role in the overthrow of the dictatorship by refusing to carry out the orders of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu during the Romanian Revolution of 1989. His inaction allowed the citizens demonstrating in Bucharest against the government to seize control. In addition, as a defense minister on 25 December 1989, Stanculescu organized the trial and execution of Nicolae Ceauşescu and Elena Ceauşescu.
In 2008, Stănculescu and another general, former Interior Minister Mihai Chițac, were convicted of aggravated manslaughter by the Supreme Court for the shooting deaths of pro-democracy protesters in Timişoara, during the Romanian Revolution of 1989. Sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment, he was freed in 2014.
He died in 2016 at age 88.
Source: wikipedia.org
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