Gheorghiu-Dej

[gyawr-gyoo-dezh]

noun

1. Gheorghe 1901–65, Romanian statesman: premier 1952–55; president of the state council 1961–65.

Example Sentences

Both Gheorghiu-Dej and Ceausescu inherited a proto-royal state in which patronage networks extended deep into the Romanian countryside.

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Romania had only two Communist leaders: Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and the infamous Nicolae Ceausescu.

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Up to 2 million people are believed to have been killed, imprisoned, deported or relocated in Romania between 1945 and 1989 under the dictatorships of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and Nicolae Ceausescu, one of Eastern Europe's most repressive.

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Romania still bears the scars of Ceausescu's repressive rule and his predecessor Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej.

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And the small man helping carry out the Gheorghiu-Dej coffin?

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