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title: Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu before a costumed crowd with portrait banners, 1986
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ceausescu-couple-personality-cult-banners-1986/
description: 'Colour photograph of 1986: Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu walk across an open space while a crowd in folk costume and dark suits behind them holds orange…'
section: Collection
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# Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu before a costumed crowd with portrait banners, 1986

Colour photograph of 1986: Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu walk across an open space while a crowd in folk costume and dark suits behind them holds orange banners and framed portraits of the couple, one banner reading 'Stima noastră și mîndria Ceaușescu - România' and a sign at upper left ending '...UL NICOLAE CEAUȘESCU'. The tell: the banners fuse the leader's name with the country's, and the portraits of both spouses are carried as part of the welcome.

## Text on the object

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

```
[illegible]UL NICOLAE CEAUȘESCU
STIMA NOASTRĂ ȘI MÎNDRIA
CEAUȘESCU - ROMÂNIA
```

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

```
[illegible]... NICOLAE CEAUȘESCU
OUR ESTEEM AND PRIDE
CEAUȘESCU - ROMANIA
```

Two banners read from the image: the first word of the central banner is faint and the reading 'STIMA' is uncertain; the sign at upper left is cut off by the frame. Diacritics are not discernible at this resolution and are supplied by convention. Translation by machine, not verified by a fluent reader.

[← "Epoca Ceaușescu": 65th-anniversary billboard of the Romanian Communist Party, Bucharest, 1986](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ceausescu-65-ani-pcr-billboard-bucharest-1986/) [65 de ani de la făurirea Partidului Comunist Român: Romanian party-anniversary poster →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pcr-65-ani-faurirea-partidului-poster-1986/)

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