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As a three-term as president, he guided the country toward democracy, but he was called an authoritarian at heart and accused of brutality during the revolt that put him in power.
By Dan Bilefsky and David Binder
Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first post-Communist president, who oversaw the country’s transition to democracy after the overthrow of the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989 but whose reputation was later tarnished by his own authoritarian tendencies and by charges of brutality over his role in the revolution, died on Tuesday in Bucharest. He was 95.
