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.
- Date
- 1986
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Romanian Communist Party and state
- Country
- Romania
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Ceausescu Regime
- Leader
- Nicolae Ceausescu
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Leader
- Nicolae Ceaușescu
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Romanian Communism Online Photo Collection), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Free reuse with attribution under the terms of the Romanian National Archives photo collection (Commons template FOCR)
Fototeca online a comunismului românesc, photo no. 44348X171X226 (Romanian National Archives), accessed via Wikimedia Commons 2 October 2026; archive quota not stated.
Text on the object
[illegible]UL NICOLAE CEAUȘESCU STIMA NOASTRĂ ȘI MÎNDRIA CEAUȘESCU - ROMÂNIA
[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.
