In 1968, Nicolae Ceaușescu ordered the rehabilitation of Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu, but also of Ștefan Foriș, both victims of the power struggle during the period of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej.

Constantin Olteanu, a young officer and military historian, was appointed to investigate and clarify the conditions in which the mother of the Romanian Communist Party leader, Ștefan Foriș, was assassinated in Oradea.

Olteanu recalled that Nicolae Ceaușescu had just came from a visit to the Soviet Union, called him and told him: "Go on the political line, instead of Pană, and in your place we will put Milea".

[4] Achievements during his term as mayor include the modernization of the Dâmbovița river, the continuation of works on the metro, the construction of housing and the extension of the Victoria Socialismului Boulevard to the Șoseaua Mihai Bravu.

In the subsidiary, we were asked to discuss with the leading factors of the respective counties and the measures indicated by Ceaușescu at the teleconference on the evening of December 17, to ensure peace and public order.(...)

I was not sent to Iași, as well as to the other counties - Vaslui, Suceava and Botoșani, with any authorization of a military nature, although I was still an active colonel-general, so I did not have the capacity to give orders to the Ministry of National Defence, Ministry of Internal Affairs, State Security Department or Patriotic Guards units[5] As he also states, in the office of the first county secretary of Iași and asked by lieutenant-colonel Ion Cioară - chief of staff at the 10th "Ștefan cel Mare" Mechanized Division in Iaşi - if it is required to arm the military with war ammunition against to the possible demonstrators, "I also specified - there were several people present - that if there will be demonstrations, somehow, the street belongs to them, to the demonstrators.

General Olteanu was arrested and, on December 31, 1989, he was brought with two SUVs and an escort to the Training Center of the Genius Troops in Bucharest, on Șoseaua Olteniței, a facility transformed into a prison.