ASPECTS CONCERNING CONFLICTING ISSUES BETWEEN NICOLAE CEAUȘESCU AND SECURITATE (1956 - 1973)
ASPECTS CONCERNING CONFLICTING ISSUES BETWEEN NICOLAE CEAUȘESCU AND SECURITATE (1956 - 1973)

Summary/Abstract: In the context in which the former institution of „Securitate” - “state inside state”, protected by Stalin and developed by the Soviet counselors, was about to become a simple instrument, subordinated to the party and also the government, basically, a conflict was triggered between Securitate and Nicolae Ceaușescu, who was secretary of the Central Committee of the R.W.P., responsible of the Securitate`s activity. The leadership of Securitate received with dissatisfaction the assessments made by Ceaușescu, and in general by the party, regarding its activity. The members of Securitate considered that they had great merits in the establishment, maintenance and the progress of the state socialist regime, that without them, it would have been impossible to establish the regime and to set the country on the course of progress and develop it on the line of new political orientations, just so that out of the blue, to end up soiled by the way in which it was criticized at the secretariat level of the Central Committee of R.W.P.

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