Dictionar biografic
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Summary/Abstract: The study of anticommunist resistance in Romania cannot deal exclusively with the manifestations of the majority ethnic group. Regrettably, the current tendency, which favours parallel histories written by members of the different ethnic groups living in Romania, implacably leads to a ghettoization of the survey of the communist past. Of course, there are explanations, running from linguistic barriers to ethnic prejudice. Such is the case of Roman-Catholic Bishop of Alba IuJia, Aron Marton, a prominent personality of Catholicism in Romania. Bishop Aron Marton was not a Romanian patriot, some of his statements being such as to indicate the contrary; nevertheless his opposition to the communist regime, to its policy of curtailing religious freedom and the freedom of conscience assign him to the same camp joined tacitly or publicly by most citizens of communist Romania. Octav Livezeanu was able to build a political career under the communist regime, on the basis ofthe activity he had conducted as a journalist and politician in the interwar period and during World War II. A former member ofthe National Peasant Party, following the NPP’s fusion with the Peasant Party, he joined Mihai Ralea’s Socialist Peasant Party. During World War II, his activity was a low-profile one, Livezeanu being arrested on two occasions (January 1942 and February 1943) for “defeatist propaganda and news damaging the national security.” Livezeanu had a way of approaching the communists, and that afforded him a rapid rise in his political career.

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