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Impunerea modelului stalinist în țările de “democrație populară” 1948 - 1950
Imposing the Stalinist Model in the “People's Democracy” Countries, 1948-1950

Author(s): Mircea Chiritoiu
Subject(s): Political history, Government/Political systems, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studiul Totalitarismului
Keywords: people's democracies; stalinist model; 40s; 50s;

Summary/Abstract: In 1948-1951, the communist world was “purged” of over 2.5 million people, of whom approximately 10 percent were arrested, tried and sentenced to many years in prison or just executed. Once the purges were over, the “new” communist parties completely followed the policy of the C.P.S.U. The new leaders of the “people’s democracies” imitated Stalin. Like him, they put their political rivals away, developed their own cult of personality, practiced abuse and committed crimes in the name of preserving the unity and purity of the communist parties. Everywhere, there was a “Stalinization” of the “people’s democracies,” in what really became a “socialist camp,” totally subjected to the will of the Soviet dictator.

  • Issue Year: VII/1999
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 62-71
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian