for a Warsaw Pact invasion of Poland after that country's Communists announced a power-sharing agreement with the Solidarity trade union—a sharp reversal of its previous opposition to the Brezhnev Doctrine and its vehement opposition to the invasion of Czechoslovakia 21 years earlier. It initially appeared that the PCR would ride out the anti-Communist tide sweeping through Eastern Europe when on 24 November—two weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the same day that Communist rule effectively ended in Czechoslovakia—Ceaușescu was reelected for another five-year term as General Secretary. A month later, both Ceaușescu and the party were overthrown in the Romanian Revolution of December 1989, begun as a popular rebellion in Timișoara and eventually bringing to power the National Salvation Front, comprising a large number of moderate former PCR members who supported Gorbachev's vision. Having fled the PCR's headquarters under pressure from demonstrators, Ceauşescu and his wife were captured, tried, and executed by the new authorities in Târgoviște. No formal dissolution of the PCR took place. Rather, the party simply disappeared. The speed with which the PCR, one of the largest parties of its kind, dissolved, as well as its spontaneity, were held by commentators as additional proof that its sizable membership presented a largely false image of its true beliefs. In nearly every other Eastern Bloc country, the former ruling Communist parties recast themselves into social democratic or democratic socialist parties, and remain major players to this day. Many former members of the PCR have been major players in the post-1989 political scene. For example, until 2014 every post-revolution president had formerly been a member of the PCR. Among other small parties an unregistered party of the same name and the small Romanian Socialist Party claim to be the successors of the PCR, with the latter entering Parliament in the 1992–1996 legislature under its former name of Socialist Party of Labour. General secretaries (1921–1989) Gheorghe Cristescu (1921–1924) Elek Köblös (1924–1927) Vitali Holostenco (1927–1931) Alexander Danieliuk-Stefanski (1931–1936) Boris Stefanov (1936–1938) Bela Breiner (1938–1940) Ștefan Foriș (1940–1944) Provisional secretariat: Emil Bodnăraș, Iosif Rangheț, and Constantin Pîrvulescu (April–September 1944) Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (1944–1954) Gheorghe Apostol (1954–1955) Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (1955–1965) Nicolae Ceaușescu (1965–1989) Party congresses Electoral history President of the State Council and Presidential elections Note In the 1961, 1965, 1967 the head of state was called President of the State Council while after 1973 the post changed to that of president