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Auction reveals Ceausescu’s personal age of plenty

Thu, Feb 09 2012 15:51 CET

byThe Budapest Times

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Auction reveals Ceausescu’s personal age of plenty

A picture of Romania's late Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu at his grave in a Bucharest cemetery, January 26 2011, which would have been his 93rd birthday. Year after year nostalgic Communists gather to mourn Ceausescu, who was executed on Christmas Day together with his wife Elena in 1989, following a popular uprising.

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Iranian silver-plated pigeons, African leopard skins and a Chinese bronze yak were among the 70 items sold in an auction of gifts presented to Romania’s former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena, held in Bucharest last week.
 
With an original price tag of 300 euro, the bronze yak presented by China’s Chairman Mao in the 1970s stole the show, being finally sold for 12 000 euro. More jewellery, medals and photographs were sold but not all items proved popular among bidders.
 
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