Interior Ministry Palace

The Interior Ministry Palace is a building on Revolution Square in Bucharest, Romania.

Architect Paul Smărăndescu drew up plans based on the Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus in Berlin and the state security building in Bratislava.

Each cell had a concrete bunk bed, table, two stools, a light bulb constantly kept on and an iron door.

[1] On August 21, 1968, during the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, Nicolae Ceaușescu made the defining speech of his 24-year rule from the building's balcony, challenging the Soviet Union.

[3] On December 22, 1989, shortly after noon, during the Romanian Revolution, a helicopter carrying Ceaușescu and his wife Elena took off from the palace roof, marking the end of his regime.