Of the Soviet puppets and allies in Eastern Europe, Romania seems to have been the one to most go its own way, with Ceacescu criticising some moves by the Soviet government and coming up with his own loony ideologies to pile on top of Marxist-Leninism. In particular this comparison was inspired by Ceacescu making a visit to North Korea and being sufficiently impressed with Kim Il Sung's Juche policy that it inspired him to create Romania's "systemisation".
Now in OTL of course Romania's communist regime fell along with the others at the end of the Cold War. The only things vaguely resembling surviving communist states are Belarus and the Transnistrian Republic, neither of which are comparable to North Korea: nasty, yes, but not 1984-ish. But if things had been different, could we see a North Korean-style isolationist, paranoid, poor but well-armed Romanian dictatorship surviving into the 21st century as it slowly became surrounded by democracies and then the EU? If so, how?