ROMANIA COMMUNISM COLLAPSE ANNIVERSARY

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ROMANIA COMMUNISM COLLAPSE ANNIVERSARY
In this picture taken on Dec. 11, 2009, a child walks on the statue of Vladimir Lenin, abandoned in the backyard of the Mogosoaia Palace, Romania, after being removed from a Bucharest square in 1990 as work to restore the church of the Mogosoaia Palace takes place behind. This week Romanians commemorate 20 years since communist dictator fled Bucharest during a popular uprising on Dec. 22, 1989, after ruling Romania for 25 years. Ceausescu was executed together with his wife Elena on Dec. 25, 1989.More than a thousand people are reported to have lost their lives during the Romanian revolution.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)