 After Nicolae Ceaușescu came to power in 1965, he was rehabilitated at the April 1968 plenary.He was appointed candidate member of the Central Committee at the party's 1972 national conference, holding the post until 1974.He died in obscurity; after cremation, his ashes were placed in the "Monument of the Heroes for the Freedom of the People and of the Motherland, for Socialism" in Bucharest's Carol Park, being removed after the Romanian Revolution of 1989.