At the time when Nicolae Ceausescu ruled Romania (Secretary-General of the Communist Party from 1965 to 1989), a concentrated effort was made to rewrite the history of the Romanians in ways that brought to the fore the concept of the providential leader.
Because the medieval principalities that later united to form modern Romania (Walachia and Moldavia in 1859, and Transylvania in 1918) produced several figures of
