Before Nicolae Ceausescu came to power, Romania needed someone to make drastic changes in the government so that they could come out of repression . The country was in repression because the floods came early that year destroying crops and making cities into lakes. There was also an economic problem, which affected most of the population . Ceausescu profited from the situation and was given power as president at the age of forty-eight. Romania entered the Warsaw Pact; an alliance between communist countries that was mainly directed by the Soviet Union . ...

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