"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.
- Date
- 1986
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Romanian Communist Party (PCR)
- Country
- Romania
- Medium
- Signs and banners
- Issuer type
- Party
- Regime
- Ceausescu Regime
- Leader
- Nicolae Ceausescu
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Commemorate
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (from Library of Congress, Romania: A Country Study, 1989), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work per Commons PD-USGov; photographer states no copyright claimed)
Photo: Scott Edelman, U.S. Department of State; via Library of Congress Country Studies and Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
EPOCA CEAUSESCU PARTIDUL CEAUSESCU ROMANIA PCR 65 65 DE ANI DE LA FAURIREA PARTIDULUI COMUNIST ROMÂN
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.
