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Lavinea Betea's biography Tovarasa. Biografia Elenei Ceausescu, Corint, Bucuresti, 2021 states her birthday is 7 January 1919.
Has anyone got a citation that her mother outlived her?
Yes, it's in Betea's new biography. See https://www.clb.ro/tovarasa-biografia-elenei-ceausescu-0000220123--p369148.html
This article seems quite POV to me, and I detect a strong elitist bias against Elena's class background. Everyking 12:50, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hmmm... I detect a strong bias against the author's elitist background. Beerathon 12:26, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
This article is very objective to me, in front of the article written on her husband. Please rush to Nicolae Ceausescu and discuss the neutrality of the article. Please. Please. I've written a comment. Fred82 04:02, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
Big mistake: her adopted son was Valentin, not Nicu! Nicu was her real child! Anton
This article is clearly not neutral. It is argumentative and polemical in tone. I don't know if this is on account of contributors being ESL or not. No one (in his or her right mind) would defend the Ceauşescus, but no one reading this page in English could argue that it presents an unbiased viewpoint. For a good model of how to write about despicable historical figures in a neutral manner, check out the article on Hitler. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.80.65.197 ( talk) 23:55, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
I totally agree,The article is overly biased against the Ceauşescu. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.17.149.216 ( talk) 07:38, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
This article is completely biased against the personality and should be removed immediately! Amartya ray2001 ( talk) 21:45, 16 December 2009 (UTC) Amartya Ray ( http://www.poemsnprose.com )
Does anyone have a photo of this very ugly woman? -- Thus Spake Anittas 17:55, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Ugh, I feel sick. -- Thus Spake Anittas 18:16, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
She was sometimes nicknamed "Codoi", referring to her alleged mispronunciation of the name of the chemical compound CO2, being mocked by many, including an official during her show trial
I asked Anonimu to attach his source which calls the trial for a "show trial" to the fragment; because none of the four sources which are attached to the fragment, mention that. That is what makes it misleading. The four sources are there to support the nickname of "Codoi," not the status of the trial. In short, I agree with what you said, but I'm not sure you understand what I had said. -- Thus Spake Anittas 20:28, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
For those of us who aren't familiar with the language, could you provide a brief explanation of what the actual spelling and/or pronunciation of the name of CO2 should be in Romanian? Many thanks. 174.111.242.35 ( talk) 12:10, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
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where do you guys getting your facts!? there's no debate, or question about her "studies". she didn't graduated anything, not even fara frecventa, everything was faked. I think she finished 4 grades or something, I'm romanian, I grew up in communist Romania. I know how illiterate and stupid she was. I know you guys want facts, I don't really have the time to find them but if you research the matter further I'm sure the truth comes up easily even on the net. I know about one documentary in which her grades were shown indicating she was failing repeatedly. and it was primary school!
I lived in Romania all my life, and frankly I am tired of hearing of the "wicked" Elena Ceausescu.
Never does anybody talk of redeeming Elena Ceausescu. Every now and then somebody will praise Nicolae Ceausescu but never his wife. She's always there to take the blame she even was shot together with her husband but she is never given any credit for anything. I find this atittude very biased and hard to take seriously. I lived in Romania all my life, and frankly —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.80.101.228 ( talk) 14:13, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
On her new gravestone it says 1919. [1] I know that she was accused of having falsified her age so that she would not be older than him, but what source is there for 1916? And if there is one, which one is more reliable?-- Mycomp ( talk) 11:25, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
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There is a 'disputed' tag, what is disputed? RJFJR ( talk) 18:11, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
The discussion of her credentials seems sanitised. I'm sure she received some sort of recognition from The Royal Society in the UK. This should be included, even if the Royal Society might cringe at it now. 121.73.7.84 ( talk) 16:27, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
This source indicates she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society: http://www.ceausescu.org/ceausescu_texts/elena_ceausescus_cult.htm 121.73.7.84 ( talk) 16:35, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
I think there's been made a mistake in the list of publications about Elena. The cited works are books about biology and molecules, not about her life.-- Вик Ретлхед ( talk) 07:46, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
There should be a lot more material on her political crimes. According to the book Freakonomics, "“The worms never get satisfied, regardless of how much food you give them,” she said when Romanians complained about the food shortages brought on by her husband’s mismanagement. She had her own children bugged to ensure their loyalty." BrotherSulayman ( talk) 22:49, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
Mrs Ceausescu actual birthdate was January 7, 1916 (not 1919). She forged her birth certificate in order to look younger than Mr. Ceausescu. I'll attach here her death certificate published in the book "Sfarsitul Ceausestilor" by Grigore Cartianu (Editura Adevarul Holding, 2010) - ISBN 978-606-539-244-1 How can i give you the scan from the book? -- Mircea romania ( talk) 22:55, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
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Even if it is logically correct, it is extremely disturbing that she is repeatedly referred to as Ceausescu in the article. As "Ceausescu" meant her husband in everyday speech. She was rather considered as Petrescu or Elena Ceausescu. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.76.9.14 ( talk) 16:40, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
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That she had affairs with German officers in order to extract intelligence: probably yes. That she was a prostitute: probably not. She was very much hated. People tell a lot of craps about people they hate. Back then members of the Communist Party were not allowed to exercise free will; they had to do what the Party told them, whether they liked it or not. Free will and morality (moral scruples) were considered bourgeois ideology. Members of the Communist Party were not considered moral agents, but cogwheels of a larger mechanism. They were not supposed to have their own volition, nor independent thinking. The Party told them what to do; the Party told them what to think. Tgeorgescu ( talk) 16:16, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
Elena Ceausescu was an illiterate. She haven't finished more than 4 school years. She couldn't speak proper Romanian. What she published was someone elses work for sure. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:2450:102E:1FB:9C99:C22D:4F30:A0DD ( talk) 18:04, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
Codoi
is a masculine pejorative meaning exaggerated tail. I can tell you that because I am a native speaker of Romanian. See
https://dexonline.ro/definitie/codoi
tgeorgescu (
talk)
06:30, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
She orchestrated the
Romanian Revolution
is a paranoid conspiracy theory. Reason: her husband trusted her and asked often for her advice. So, it's not like she needed more power.
tgeorgescu (
talk)
14:28, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
@ Anonimu: Most Romanians don't buy into her credentials. Why? Because neither of the couple could correctly speak the literary language, which for intellectuals is something not done. Forget about accent, archaisms, and regionalisms: they could not speak proper Romanian language. Why? Because in essence they were uneducated people. I'm not saying that they were unintelligent or something, just that they were uneducated, and most educated people could tell that. tgeorgescu ( talk) 18:15, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
The dissertation is titled the "Stereospecific Polymerization of Isoprene" and has substantial scientific value, being still bought and cited today.
I see no justification for this. The cited Amazon link contains no evidence that anyone has ever purchased her dissertation. Google Scholar ( https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=15843041156396746636) shows 17 citations of her dissertation. Neither of these constitutes evidence of "substantial scientific value". Jeff.science ( talk) 13:35, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
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Lavinea Betea's biography Tovarasa. Biografia Elenei Ceausescu, Corint, Bucuresti, 2021 states her birthday is 7 January 1919.
Has anyone got a citation that her mother outlived her?
Yes, it's in Betea's new biography. See https://www.clb.ro/tovarasa-biografia-elenei-ceausescu-0000220123--p369148.html
This article seems quite POV to me, and I detect a strong elitist bias against Elena's class background. Everyking 12:50, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hmmm... I detect a strong bias against the author's elitist background. Beerathon 12:26, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
This article is very objective to me, in front of the article written on her husband. Please rush to Nicolae Ceausescu and discuss the neutrality of the article. Please. Please. I've written a comment. Fred82 04:02, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
Big mistake: her adopted son was Valentin, not Nicu! Nicu was her real child! Anton
This article is clearly not neutral. It is argumentative and polemical in tone. I don't know if this is on account of contributors being ESL or not. No one (in his or her right mind) would defend the Ceauşescus, but no one reading this page in English could argue that it presents an unbiased viewpoint. For a good model of how to write about despicable historical figures in a neutral manner, check out the article on Hitler. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.80.65.197 ( talk) 23:55, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
I totally agree,The article is overly biased against the Ceauşescu. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.17.149.216 ( talk) 07:38, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
This article is completely biased against the personality and should be removed immediately! Amartya ray2001 ( talk) 21:45, 16 December 2009 (UTC) Amartya Ray ( http://www.poemsnprose.com )
Does anyone have a photo of this very ugly woman? -- Thus Spake Anittas 17:55, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Ugh, I feel sick. -- Thus Spake Anittas 18:16, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
She was sometimes nicknamed "Codoi", referring to her alleged mispronunciation of the name of the chemical compound CO2, being mocked by many, including an official during her show trial
I asked Anonimu to attach his source which calls the trial for a "show trial" to the fragment; because none of the four sources which are attached to the fragment, mention that. That is what makes it misleading. The four sources are there to support the nickname of "Codoi," not the status of the trial. In short, I agree with what you said, but I'm not sure you understand what I had said. -- Thus Spake Anittas 20:28, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
For those of us who aren't familiar with the language, could you provide a brief explanation of what the actual spelling and/or pronunciation of the name of CO2 should be in Romanian? Many thanks. 174.111.242.35 ( talk) 12:10, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
I removed Image:Ceausescu5.jpg from this page, because it does not have a unique fair use rationale for this image. If you want to put the image back, please add {{ Non-free media rationale}} to the image description page. Thank you. – Ilse @ 11:47, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
where do you guys getting your facts!? there's no debate, or question about her "studies". she didn't graduated anything, not even fara frecventa, everything was faked. I think she finished 4 grades or something, I'm romanian, I grew up in communist Romania. I know how illiterate and stupid she was. I know you guys want facts, I don't really have the time to find them but if you research the matter further I'm sure the truth comes up easily even on the net. I know about one documentary in which her grades were shown indicating she was failing repeatedly. and it was primary school!
I lived in Romania all my life, and frankly I am tired of hearing of the "wicked" Elena Ceausescu.
Never does anybody talk of redeeming Elena Ceausescu. Every now and then somebody will praise Nicolae Ceausescu but never his wife. She's always there to take the blame she even was shot together with her husband but she is never given any credit for anything. I find this atittude very biased and hard to take seriously. I lived in Romania all my life, and frankly —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.80.101.228 ( talk) 14:13, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
On her new gravestone it says 1919. [1] I know that she was accused of having falsified her age so that she would not be older than him, but what source is there for 1916? And if there is one, which one is more reliable?-- Mycomp ( talk) 11:25, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
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There is a 'disputed' tag, what is disputed? RJFJR ( talk) 18:11, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
The discussion of her credentials seems sanitised. I'm sure she received some sort of recognition from The Royal Society in the UK. This should be included, even if the Royal Society might cringe at it now. 121.73.7.84 ( talk) 16:27, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
This source indicates she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society: http://www.ceausescu.org/ceausescu_texts/elena_ceausescus_cult.htm 121.73.7.84 ( talk) 16:35, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
I think there's been made a mistake in the list of publications about Elena. The cited works are books about biology and molecules, not about her life.-- Вик Ретлхед ( talk) 07:46, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
There should be a lot more material on her political crimes. According to the book Freakonomics, "“The worms never get satisfied, regardless of how much food you give them,” she said when Romanians complained about the food shortages brought on by her husband’s mismanagement. She had her own children bugged to ensure their loyalty." BrotherSulayman ( talk) 22:49, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
Mrs Ceausescu actual birthdate was January 7, 1916 (not 1919). She forged her birth certificate in order to look younger than Mr. Ceausescu. I'll attach here her death certificate published in the book "Sfarsitul Ceausestilor" by Grigore Cartianu (Editura Adevarul Holding, 2010) - ISBN 978-606-539-244-1 How can i give you the scan from the book? -- Mircea romania ( talk) 22:55, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
There is an RfC on the question of using "Religion: None" vs. "Religion: None (atheist)" in the infobox on this and other similar pages.
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Even if it is logically correct, it is extremely disturbing that she is repeatedly referred to as Ceausescu in the article. As "Ceausescu" meant her husband in everyday speech. She was rather considered as Petrescu or Elena Ceausescu. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.76.9.14 ( talk) 16:40, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
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That she had affairs with German officers in order to extract intelligence: probably yes. That she was a prostitute: probably not. She was very much hated. People tell a lot of craps about people they hate. Back then members of the Communist Party were not allowed to exercise free will; they had to do what the Party told them, whether they liked it or not. Free will and morality (moral scruples) were considered bourgeois ideology. Members of the Communist Party were not considered moral agents, but cogwheels of a larger mechanism. They were not supposed to have their own volition, nor independent thinking. The Party told them what to do; the Party told them what to think. Tgeorgescu ( talk) 16:16, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
Elena Ceausescu was an illiterate. She haven't finished more than 4 school years. She couldn't speak proper Romanian. What she published was someone elses work for sure. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:2450:102E:1FB:9C99:C22D:4F30:A0DD ( talk) 18:04, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
Codoi
is a masculine pejorative meaning exaggerated tail. I can tell you that because I am a native speaker of Romanian. See
https://dexonline.ro/definitie/codoi
tgeorgescu (
talk)
06:30, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
She orchestrated the
Romanian Revolution
is a paranoid conspiracy theory. Reason: her husband trusted her and asked often for her advice. So, it's not like she needed more power.
tgeorgescu (
talk)
14:28, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
@ Anonimu: Most Romanians don't buy into her credentials. Why? Because neither of the couple could correctly speak the literary language, which for intellectuals is something not done. Forget about accent, archaisms, and regionalisms: they could not speak proper Romanian language. Why? Because in essence they were uneducated people. I'm not saying that they were unintelligent or something, just that they were uneducated, and most educated people could tell that. tgeorgescu ( talk) 18:15, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
The dissertation is titled the "Stereospecific Polymerization of Isoprene" and has substantial scientific value, being still bought and cited today.
I see no justification for this. The cited Amazon link contains no evidence that anyone has ever purchased her dissertation. Google Scholar ( https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=15843041156396746636) shows 17 citations of her dissertation. Neither of these constitutes evidence of "substantial scientific value". Jeff.science ( talk) 13:35, 9 July 2023 (UTC)