Desfiinţarea P.N.Ţ.: O nouă etapă în planul de sovietizare a României, I
The Dissolution of the National Peasant Party – a New Stage in the Plan on Sovietizing Romania, I

Summary/Abstract: The establishment of Petru Groza’s government on March 6, 1945 was the beginning of a significant change for the Romanian kingdom, from a democratic state to a communist-like totalitarian state. Following a plan drafted on Stalin's order, the Romanian Communist Party gradually seized all the country's political and economic powers. After the outrageous rigging of the November 19, 1946 elections, the next step was to annihilate the opposition by dissolving the democratic parties. The first target was the the National Peasant Party, whose members were arrested in several successive stages beginning in the spring of 1947. The Peasants' persecution continued despite national and US-British protests, while the arrested people were subjected to an extermination regime. On July 14, 1947 the party was dealt a death blow when the political police agents framed up an attempt to flee the country to a group of Peasant leaders. In a few days, the government outlawed the key opposition party, closed its headquarters, neutralized the press and arrested its leaders.

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