Ceaușescu House
Communist dictator's lavish private villa with gold bathroom fittings and a mosaic indoor pool.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Ceaușescu House in Bucharest follows the private home of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu and their three children, from nineteen sixty-five to the winter of nineteen eighty-nine. It turns on a simple question about the house that nobody seems able to answer the same way twice. Gold bathroom taps, a pool tiled with the universe and a daughter's Marie Antoinette bedroom sit against the shortages Romanians lived with in the nineteen-eighties.
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