Vasile Milea, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vasile Milea

Romanian general and politician

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1927

Place of Birth: Arges, Romania

Date of Death: 22-Dec-1989

Profession: military personnel, politician

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Vasile Milea (1 January 1927 – 22 December 1989) was Nicolae Ceau?escu's minister of defense during the Romanian Revolution of 1989 and was involved in the reprisal phase of the revolution that caused the deaths of 162 people. On 22 December 1989, Ceau?escu sacked him for not ordering his men to fire on the demonstrators who'd taken to the streets of Bucharest a day earlier.
According to the official account, Ceau?escu considered this an act of treason, and Milea committed suicide shortly afterward.
However, several members of his family claim that he was killed on the orders of Ceau?escu.
Milea was already in severe disfavour for sending troops to quell the uprising in Timi?oara without ammunition.
Whatever the case, Milea's death caused the rank-and-file soldiers to go over almost en masse to the revolution, effectively ending Communist rule in Romania.A report from 2005 after a full investigation including a postmortem concluded that Milea killed himself using the weapon of one of his attendants.
It suggested that he only tried to incapacitate himself in order to be relieved from office, but the bullet hit an artery and he died soon afterwards.