Cine a fost Petre Borilă? Între Famiglia Comintern şi familia Ceauşescu
Who was Petre Borilă? Between Famiglia of Comintern and Ceauşescu Family

Summary/Abstract: Petre Borilă (Iordan Dragan Rusev, 1906-1973) was a hard-core Stalinist, one of the most loyal and ardent partisans of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, secretary general of the Romanian Workers’ Party. Like other prominent Romanian communists (Constantin Doncea, Mihail Florescu, Valter Roman, Gheorghe Stoica), Borilă fought in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. During World War II he worked in Moscow as a Comintern apparatchik. Due to the fact that Gh. Gheorghiu Dej did not have any Comintern credentials, Petre Borilă became his close associate and a significant actor of the decision making process between 1948 and 1965. He accompanied Gheorghiu-Dej at the 20th CPSU Congress in February 1956. Between 1952 and 1965 he was a Politburo member. His political decline occurred after Nicolae Ceauşescu established his domination within the communist leadership, at the Ninth RCP Congress in July 1965. In spite of both families’ opposition, Valentin Ceauşescu, Nicolae’s and Elena’s eldest son, married Iordana, Borilă’s daughter. During his last years, Borilă disapproved Nicolae Ceauşescu’s unprecedented personal leadership and personality cult (Borilă sent a memorandum to RCP’s Central Committee expressing his dissatisfaction). However, in Petre Borilă’s eyes Joseph Stalin remained a hero and a political model.

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