Did Ana Pauker Prevent a "Rajk Trial" in Romania?
Did Ana Pauker Prevent a "Rajk Trial" in Romania?

Summary/Abstract: When assessing the record of Communist-led Romania during the Stalinist period, one invariably discovers a contradiction: although the leading Romanian Communists have been consistently regarded as utterly servile to Soviet domination, they did not provide the Kremlin with an anti-Tito show trial in Romania, as their contemporaries did in Hungary, Albania, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia. The reason for this has long proved a mystery. While Romania purged its version of the "Titoist co-conspirator," Justice Minister Lucretiu Patrascanu, even before Tito's expulsion from the Cominform, it did not bring him to trial until 1954, a full year after the death of Stalin and the termination of the anti-Tito campaign. [...]

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