Romania 20 years after Ceausescu - 25 Dec 09

The people of Romania are marking twenty years since the overthrow of Nicolae Ceaucescus communist leadership.

The nation suffered the last of all the eastern European revolutions and the only one marked by bloodshed.

And it was on Christmas day in 1989 that Ceausescu was executed.

Al Jazeera's Barnaby Phillips travelled to Bucharest to find out how much of Ceaucescu's legacy pervades Romanian society today.