Mass spectacle with Ceaușescu portrait, "23 August" Stadium, Bucharest, 23 September 1978
Night photograph of the festive show of the 'Daciada' at the '23 August' Stadium in Bucharest on 23 September 1978: thousands of performers in white formed into blocks and a ring on the pitch, flags along the edge, and, above a packed stand, a very large portrait of Ceaușescu with a smaller medallion portrait above it. The tell: the size of the staged crowd and the leader's enlarged portrait over it are the message, with mass participation offered in place of any statement.
- Date
- September 23, 1978
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Romanian Communist Party and state (Daciada festival organisers)
- Country
- Romania
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Ceausescu Regime
- Leader
- Nicolae Ceausescu
- Audience
- Domestic public
- 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. 45286X66X71 (Romanian National Archives), accessed via Wikimedia Commons 2 October 2026; archive quota not stated.
Text on the object
No printed or legible text on this object.
A banner runs under the large portrait but is not legible at this resolution.
