„Diversiuni capitaliste”:deviere de dreapta sau antisemitism?
„Capitalist diversions“: right-wing deviations or anti-Semitism?

Summary/Abstract: At the beginning of the 50s, hostility to capitalism became an obsession in the ‘people’s democracies’. The political context of the end of 1952 was dominated by anti-Semitic hysteria. The situation of the Jewish minorities from Eastern Europe was dramatic. All these four documents from the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs represent part of a picture of a time dominated by the obsession of fighting against ‚decadent capitalism’. Ana Pauker’s removal as Foreign Minister launched a new process of removal from the diplomatic apparatus of all those who were considered to be inadequate or class enemies (the cases of George Macovescu, Egon Balas, Emil Lustig and Aurel Farchi). The tone used by Cornel Bogdan, at the beginning of his diplomatic carrier, exemplifies a vindictive rhetoric caused by an external and internal political context which was extremely ambiguous and fluctuating.

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