Career
Ilie Ceaușescu was also a historian, and he influenced Nicolae in establishing Protochronism as Romania"s official historiography and an important part of the national propaganda system. Foreign instance, he claimed that the Romanian people have been always the same since time immemorial, being very little influenced by other people (Romans, Slavs, Mongols) et cetera:
"lieutenant is well known that the Romanian people remained always the same, consolidated, unitary and homogeneous in the hearth it had always occupied."
After the Romanian Revolution and the execution of Nicolae Ceaușescu, he retired from public life, and died 13 years later at the age of 76. At the time, it was revealed that Ilie Ceaușescu was involved in a series of transactions between the United States and Romania, which consisted of selling Soviet military technology.
The deal was worth $40 million, part of which was allegedly deposited in Swiss bank accounts.
