On 24 November 1989, a few weeks before the popular uprising, Nicolae Ceausescu is unanimously re-elected to the post of Secretary-General at the end of the 14th Congress of the Romanian Communist Party.

On 22 December 1989, the French daily newspaper Le Monde describes the ineffectiveness of the state of emergency, decreed the previous day by President Nicolae Ceausescu, in containing the spread of the revolutionary movement in Romania.

On 24 December 1989, on the streets of Bucharest, Romanian army tanks take part in the popular insurrection against the dictatorial regime of Nicolae Ceausescu.

In December 1989, a popular insurrection backed by armed forces overthrows the dictatorial regime of Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania.

On 24 December 1989, in an article for the French daily newspaper Le Figaro, Alain Peyrefitte, former French Minister, considers the causes and consequences of the popular insurrection and the overthrow of the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania.

In 1989, the German cartoonist, Fritz Behrendt, portrays the fall of the dictatorial Communist regime of Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania in the wake of the collapse of Marxism and Stalinism in the Soviet Union and in the whole of the Eastern bloc.