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title: '"Epoca Ceaușescu": 65th-anniversary billboard of the Romanian Communist Party, Bucharest, 1986'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ceausescu-65-ani-pcr-billboard-bucharest-1986/
description: 'Street billboard on the Calea Moșilor axis in Bucharest, photographed around 1 May 1986: Ceaușescu''s portrait inside a laurel wreath above the party flag…'
section: Collection
---

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# "Epoca Ceaușescu": 65th-anniversary billboard of the Romanian Communist Party, Bucharest, 1986

Street billboard on the Calea Moșilor axis in Bucharest, photographed around 1 May 1986: Ceaușescu's portrait inside a laurel wreath above the party flag and a massed crowd of faces, with the text 'Epoca Ceaușescu' and 'Partidul Ceaușescu România' over the line '65 de ani de la făurirea Partidului Comunist Român'. The tell: an anniversary of the party's founding (1921) is staged as the leader's own, with the flag, laurel and crowd lending the party's accumulated prestige to his portrait.

## Text on the object

Original (Romanian) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
EPOCA CEAUSESCU
PARTIDUL
CEAUSESCU
ROMANIA
PCR 65

65 DE ANI DE LA FAURIREA
PARTIDULUI COMUNIST ROMÂN
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
CEAUSESCU ERA
THE PARTY
CEAUSESCU
ROMANIA
PCR 65

65 YEARS SINCE THE FORGING (FOUNDING)
OF THE ROMANIAN COMMUNIST PARTY
```

Diacritics other than the circumflex in ROMÂN are not discernible at this resolution. 'Făurirea' is the standard Romanian word for the founding or forging of the party. The street sign in the lower right is too small to read.

[← Multilingual banners at the Artek international Pioneer camp, Gurzuf: "Für antiimperialistischen Frieden und Freundschaft"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/artek-international-pioneer-banners-1986/) [Radio Moscow World Service on the Chernobyl accident and U.S. reports, FBIS Daily Report, 1 May 1986 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/radio-moscow-chernobyl-us-reports-1986/)

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