Round 3: Tossup 10

Miners opposed this country’s regime in the Jiu (“JEE-oo”) Valley strike. In 1967, this country tried to increase its population size by restricting abortion under (10[1])Decree (10[1])770. (10[1])Political prisoners were held in the Sighet (-5[1])Prison by this country’s brutal secret police, the Securitate. This country’s revolution began in its city of Timișoara (“tee-meesh-WAH-rah”), after which this country’s dictator and his wife (10[1])failed to escape by helicopter. (-5[1])Ion Iliescu (“yohn eel-YES-koo”) became this country’s President after it became the only Warsaw Pact country to execute its former leader on Christmas Day (10[1])1989. For 10 points, which country was led for most of the Cold War by Nicolae (10[1])Ceaușescu ■END■

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