It was only when the Ceausescus were taken outside to the school courtyard—and not to some helicopter waiting to return them to Bucharest—that the two of them realized what was about to happen. “Look,” Elena said, “they’re going to shoot us like dogs.” The couple were placed up against the wall, and then the waiting soldiers proved the bitch correct. There were over one hundred bullets shot in total by the time they stopped firing their AK-47s at the Ceausescus.
