Biserica româneasca sub dictatura comunista
The Romanian Church under the communist regime

Summary/Abstract: Through the instauration on the 6th of March 1945 of the so-called "democratic government" in Romania, in our country took place the inauguration of the communist-atheist regime. As in the Soviet Russia, later called the USSR, the communist fought mightily against the Christian Church in Romania, regardless the confession considered as a hostile institution to the atheist ideology. In this situation the Romanian Orthodox Church, the majority church in our country had two alternatives: a) to fight openly against the communist regime or b) to adopt a moderate attitude of closeness and of "cohabitation" with the same regime. The first alternative could not be chosen because of the unequal report of forces or of the attack and defense means of the two institutions: the State and the Church. especially that after 1917 the martyrdom of the Russian Orthodox Church, with thousands of victims among the clergy and the Christians was a conclusive example of us. At the same time, we had the example of Albania, where the communist regime had put to silence any Christian or non-Christian church or cult. On the other hand the Greek-Catholic Church from Romania was abolished, and it could be save neither by the catholic authority, nor by the occidental states. In this situation, we were forced to choose the second alternative in order to keep our ancient faith within the Romanian nation under the communist oppression.

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