Clothes, shoes, furniture items that belonged to late Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena, that were moved from one basement to the other in the last 25 years as they unattractive at auctions because of their poor state, will end up destroyed.

These include mirrors, carpets, furniture pieces, clothing and shoe-wear that belonged to the dictatorial couple, according to Mediafax newswire, which quotes a document from the State Patrimony Administration RA-APPS.

The administration will create a commission with inhouse representatives, and people from the Culture and Labor Ministries, to catalogue all these goods. Those in better condition will still be used for protocol houses, others will be lent to museums, or granted for free to public social assistance services. What cannot be sold, nor given away, will be destroyed.

The RA-APPS received these goods after the Military Court which sentenced the Ceausescus to death in 1989 for genocide also decided to confiscate their entire wealth. Most of the valuable goods were sold between 1999 and 2001 via open bids or on the Internet.

25 years after the death of their owners, the remaining goods are in a poor condition: some closets have cracked doors, the mirrors are depolished, the carpets are in an even poorer state, glass items are chipped, and clothing and shoes are degraded from having been moved from one location to the other after 1990, and from having been mostly deposited in basements.

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