That a Romanian-American friend of mine told me. He said that the shots that killed Nicolae Ceausescu were in an adjacent room, and that a look-alike was shot in his place, while the real Nicolae Ceausescu was spirited away to a secret hiding place, which was rumored to be underneath the tacky so-called Palace that he built for himself in the Sinaia compound of the Peles Castle, which had been the summer palace of the kings of Romania before communism, and was Ceausescu's private playground. Anyway, the rumor was that the military kept him imprisoned and alive in the basement of the tacky palace he built for himself next door to the real one of the Romanian kings, keeping him alive just so they could milk the money in his secret Swiss bank account, in order to fill the pockets of the "neo-communist" so-called democratic ruler of Romania after the fall of Ceausescu, who was Ion Iliescu, who falsely proclaimed himself in his political campaigns as "an honest man for Romania". Anyway, my Romanian-American friend said he could tell that a look alike substitute had been shot in Nicolae Ceasescu's place because the shirt on the guy in the final scene was white with thin black pin stripes, whereas the shirt worn by Nicolae Ceausescu during the trial immediately preceding was solid white. He also said that the look alike killed in Ceausescu's place died with his eyes open, revealing the presence of cataracts, whereas the real Ceausescu had no cataracts. I visited the compound in Sinaia in the early 90s, right after the fall of communism, and the tacky Ceausescu palace was heavily guarded by troops, who wouldn't let anyone near the tacky Ceausescu palace. Hmmm... Go figure!
The Romanian yogis I associated with in Romania after the fall of communism had other theories about Nicolae Ceausescu as well - that he was the reincarnation of Vlad Tepes, or Vlad the Impaler, the fifteenth century Vallachian prince who was the basis for the Dracula legend. And to make the karmic connection even clearer, Ceausescu's trial and (supposed?) execution took place in Targoviste, a provincial city some 50 miles NW of Bucharest, which had been Vlad the Impaler's capital city. Just a few short blocks from where he was executed lies the ruins of the famous Chindia Tower, where it is said that Vlad thrusted lawbreakers out the window onto the sharp wooden stakes that were waiting below, ready to impale them.
Like our current supreme leader, it was said that Nicolae Ceausescu was not too bright. Everyone in Romania joked about him not even being able to dance the hora - footage exists that shows him screwing up and tripping over every step. And his wife Elena was the self-appointed minister of science. In one of her speeches, she read the chemical symbol of CO2 as "co-doi" instead of by its proper chemical name, showing her total ignorance of even the basics of chemistry and science.
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