After taking a first-half lead through Nicolae Dica, Romania then scored five goals in a 20-minute second-half spell.

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Nicolae said Blatter is out of touch with the realities of the game.

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The Romanian economy was plundered by the Soviet-style nomenklatura, and by the corrupt family of Romania's cruel, idiosyncratic dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu.

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Pacepa's memoir Red Horizons formed the basis for the indictment and conviction of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, who was executed in 1989.

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In 1940, in Romania, the pro-Nazi Iron Guard slaughtered more than 60 aides of the exiled king, including former Prime Minister Nicolae Jorga.

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In 1989, Romania's National Salvation Front named a new government headed by President Ion Iliescu, a day after announcing the execution of deposed dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.

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The situation, already tense, reached a critical point in late October, when Nicolae Romulus Mailat, a Romanian citizen, was charged with the murder in Rome of Giovanna Reggiani.

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In 2011, it launched a global "Why I Love Romania" poster campaign, trumpeting the achievements of famous Romanians such as tennis player Ilie Nastase, gymnast Nadia Comanenci and scientist Nicolae Paulescu, who discovered insulin.

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People survived the abject poverty and international isolation of the last years of the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu - who ruled from 1965 to 1989 - with a diet of jokes, and alcohol, but very little open political dissent.

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