The Romanian Religious Press in the Early Years of the Communist Regime: Elements of the Official Political Discourse in the Editorial Content
The Romanian Religious Press in the Early Years of the Communist Regime: Elements of the Official Political Discourse in the Editorial Content

Summary/Abstract: The events of August, 23, 1944 would change the Romanian course of history, leading to the instauration of a communist government, with the aid and following the model of the Soviet Union political regime. Until December 1947, the new regime coexisted with the old democratic state structures, but from that moment on, the communist government would start the procedures to abolish the old government institutions, bringing rough changes that would affect every aspect of the Romanians’ life, including culture and dayt o- day existence. The utopian ideology of the Communist Party, based on a sustained plan to reinvent the human condition itself, would be soon noticed in every sector of activity, even in the theological discourse, that is usually meant to speak about divinity and its relationship with humanity. The only political party is promoted as omnipresent and omniscient, the supreme value and the depository of the whole human wisdom and thus it justifies its authority to control the evolution of individuals (Cozma, 2010: 21). From this point of view, the new ideology would attack the very essence of religions that relies on divinity as the source of truth, knowledge and life itself. In these conditions, many of the Romanian religious magazines would be eliminated, others would refuse to continue and few of them would find a compromising solution in allowing elements of the communist wooden language discourse to penetrate their contents.

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