Nicolae Ceaușescu
Early life
!Ceaușescu, at age 15, detained at [Doftana prison, 1933](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/001.NicolaeCeausesculavarstade15aniin1933.jpg/250px-001.NicolaeCeausesculavarstade15aniin1933.jpg)
Early life
He became an apprentice shoemaker, working in the workshop of Alexandru Săndulescu, a shoemaker who was an active member in the then-illegal Communist Party. Ceaușescu was soon involved in the Communist Party activities (becoming a member in early 1932), but as a teenager he was given only small tasks. He was first arrested in 1933, at the age of 15, for street fighting during a strike and again, in 1934, first for collecting signatures on a petition protesting against the trial of railway workers and twice more for other similar activities. By the mid-1930s, he had been in missions in Bucharest, Craiova, Câmpulung and Râmnicu Vâlcea, being arrested several times.
Early life
!Ceaușescu and other Communists at a public meeting in [Colentina, welcoming the Red Army as it entered Bucharest on 30 August 1944](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/1944soviet1.png/250px-1944soviet1.png)
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