Tyrant: Romania's former communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu delivering his last public speech from the balcony of the Romanian Communist Party Headquarters in Bucharest
Shocking health statistics have revealed how Romanian women went through more than 22 million abortions as a result of policies introduced by Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
Official government records have revealed that between 1958 and 2008 state clinics carried out 22.1 million terminations in a country with a population of just 21.5 million.
But, warn Health Ministry aides, the true figure could be even higher as tens of thousands of pregnant women carried our DIY abortions or attended illegal clinics.
Experts say the figures came from dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's drive to push up the country's population by banning all forms of contraception.
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