CEAUȘESCU, GREECE AND THE GREEK POLITICAL EMIGRATION
CEAUȘESCU, GREECE AND THE GREEK POLITICAL EMIGRATION7

Summary/Abstract: The entire foreign policy of Nicolae Ceaușescu, the dictator of Romania from 1965 to 1989, followed his assertion as a champion of the fight for equality between states and, above all, for the promotion of the interests of the small ones from the third world. He also constantly sought to support the trends on different continents related to building socialism in as many states as possible. Another constant was the support of communist emigration from states where the communist movement was banned. This is also the situation of relations with Greece, with the clarification that here things are more complex. Maintaining official relations with the government in Athens, Nicolae Ceaușescu had cordial relations with prominent members of the Greek diaspora, this in parallel with the continuation of the favorable attitude related to the Greek political emigrants who arrived in Romania after 1948. Our study aims to define the manner in which this policy towards the Greek government, diaspora and emigrants settled in Romania was put into practice. For this, we will primarily appeal to the existing documents in the Archive of the former Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party, as well as to the already existing historiography from which Apostolos Patelakis's study on the Greek political emigrants in Romania is detached.

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