This study focuses on the decidedly negative relationship between the Romanian leader Nicolae Ceaușescu and Gorbachev. The reasons for their disagreement had already been clearly identified by contemporary observers and even more so by historians. The reforms initiated by the General Secretary of the Cpsu were incompatible with the “national” direction that the Romanian communist regime had embraced since the 1960s, a standpoint that was further intensified in the following years with the consolidation of Ceaușescu’s dictatorship. A collision between the two leaders was inevitable, and it ultimately ended with the deposition and execution of the Romanian leader.
