People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Ana Pauker Ana Pauker The world's first woman foreign minister and head of the Romanian party's "Muscovite faction", brought down by Gheorghiu-Dej's 1952 purge
- Vasile Luca Vasile Luca Finance minister of the "Muscovite faction", purged on the pretext of the 1952 currency reform and dead in Aiud prison, a Székely Hungarian communist
- Nicolae Ceaușescu Nicolae Ceaușescu Romania's leader who combined independent diplomacy with a cult of personality
- Ion Iliescu Ion Iliescu Ceaușescu's protégé who ordered his execution and led Romania's post-communist transition