A rose is placed on the grave stone of a 17 year old student during a memorial religious service for those killed in the 1989 anti-communist uprising, in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023. Romania marked the 34th anniversary of the anti-communist uprising which started in the western Romanian town of Timisoara on Dec. 16 and in Bucharest on Dec. 21, 1989, leaving more than one thousand people dead and ending the rule of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)