Radu Ciuceanu

Radu Ciuceanu (16 April 1928 – 12 September 2022) was a Romanian historian and politician. A member of the National Liberal Party and later the Greater Romania Party, he served in the Chamber of Deputies from 1990 to 1992 and again from 2000 to 2004.

He was born in Arad. In 1947, while a student at the Carol I High School in Craiova, he joined the anti-communist resistance group led by general Ioan Carlaonț. He was interrogated by the Securitate and the NKVD, While at Pitești Prison, starting in 1949, he was tortured (by, among others, Eugen Țurcanu In December 1989 he participated in the Romanian Revolution, defending the TVR Tower.

Ciuceanu was awarded the National Order of Faithful Service, Knight rank.

He died in Bucharest on 12 September 2022, at the age of 94, and was buried in the city's Bellu Cemetery.