People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Petre Dumitrescu Petre Dumitrescu Romania's commander on the Eastern Front
- Vasile Milea Vasile Milea Ceaușescu's last defence minister: his death on 22 December 1989 triggered the army's mass defection to the revolution
- Victor Atanasie Stănculescu Victor Atanasie Stănculescu The Romanian general who switched sides on the morning of the revolution and brought down a dictator