A Romanian immigrant who moved to the United States in pursuit of a better life said Americans favoring communism need to learn from history or "nothing will save you." "I'm not saying that every ...

Decades after the bloody overthrow of Nicolae Ceausescu, tourism based on landmarks from Romania's communist era has become a thriving industry. BUCHAREST -- Christian Scutariu laughs when asked ...

Legendary Romanian Olympic gymnast Nadia Comaneci fled from her abusive trainer and the tyranny of life in a Communist surveillance state for the American dream. Corbis/Popperfoto via Getty Images ...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) – Gabriel Tepelea, an anti-communist dissident who spent six years in gulags and later played a key role in Romanian political life when communism collapsed, has died, a ...

Nostalgia for Communism has been on the rise in Romania amid a persistent cost-of-living-crisis. In a recent poll of 1,100 Romanians, almost half (48.1 percent) ...

ORSOVA, Romania -- Mihai Mick had been plotting his escape from communist Romania for several years. In June 1977, after a year of meticulous planning, the Romanian dentist waded into the Danube ...

In 1960s Communist Romania, violinist Ion Petre Stoican was struggling to establish himself in the Bucharest wedding market. But when he unwittingly helped snare a highly sought-after spy, Stoican ...

Playing the last days of Romanian communism as frenzied farce, Lucian Pintilie’s “The Oak” is set in a world so despoiled a Hieronymus Bosch landscape might seem bucolic by comparison. First ...