Petre Borilă (1906-1973)
Petre Borilă (1906-1973). A biogprahy

Summary/Abstract: Based on archival sources recently released and on the second literature also; this article briefly underlines the most relevant points of Petre Borilă’s biography. A member of the inner circle of the communist power after 1945; Borilă had been a member of the illegal communist movement in interwar Romania. A Bulgarian from Cadrilater; a little province gained by Romania after the second Balkan War; in 1913; unsatisfied by the Romanian rule; he joined the Communist Party of Romania when he was 18 years old. Among many others party duties accomplished as a young professional revolutionary; he fought in the Spanish Civil War; he spent the Second World War in the Soviet Union; but after 1945; despite his common past with Ana Pauker and Vasile Luca; Borilă became one of the Gheorghiu Dej’s followers; political switch that allowed him to remain in power for a very long time.

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