ASPECTS REGARDING THE VIOLATION OF THE POLITICAL LINE OF SOCIALIST ROMANIA BY HIGH PARTY AND SECURITATE DIGNITARIES, ONE OF THE CAUSES OF THE FAILURE OF THE SOCIALIST STATE REGIME Cover Image
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ASPECTS REGARDING THE VIOLATION OF THE POLITICAL LINE OF SOCIALIST ROMANIA BY HIGH PARTY AND SECURITATE DIGNITARIES, ONE OF THE CAUSES OF THE FAILURE OF THE SOCIALIST STATE REGIME
ASPECTS REGARDING THE VIOLATION OF THE POLITICAL LINE OF SOCIALIST ROMANIA BY HIGH PARTY AND SECURITATE DIGNITARIES, ONE OF THE CAUSES OF THE FAILURE OF THE SOCIALIST STATE REGIME

Author(s): Corvin Lupu
Subject(s): Governance, Political history, Economic policy, International relations/trade, Security and defense, Military policy, Developing nations, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), History of Communism, Post-Communist Transformation, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Editura Universitatii LUCIAN BLAGA din Sibiu
Keywords: Romanian workers; Party; Romanian Communist Party; Security; Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej; Nicolae Ceaușescu;

Summary/Abstract: After the Second World War, according to the agreements between the victorious Allies in the war, the greatest powers in the world, Romania was assigned to the Soviet sphere of influence. Because of this, the historian must analyze this period as an objective situation of history, avoiding the politicization of the situation and regarding things as if they should have been different, and Romania would have had development alternatives outside the strict framework imposed by world power which controlled the area of influence.From the beginning of the historical period of the state socialist regime, improperly called ”communist”, within the Romanian Communist Party, two camps emerged: that of the communists who spent many years in the regime's prisons during the two decades after 1924, when the Communist Party of Romania was outlawed and the communists who were in exile in the Soviet Union, under the protection of the Kremlin authorities and who did not know the persecutions, harsh investigations, beatings and sometimes death, in Romanian prisons.The article explains that Communist Party dignitaries and important Securitate commanders, as well as their agents in the military, remained loyal to the Soviet Union and secretly sabotaged the political line of national independence promoted by Romania's collective leadership, led by Nicolae Ceaușescu. They acted in this way despite the explicit orders given.At the forefront of the saboteurs of Romania's independent national policy were the ethnic minorities of the Communist Party, primarily Jews, Gypsies and Hungarians and the Securitate leadership, which was the most important opponent of Romania's nationalist leadership, especially Nicolae Ceaușescu.The result of this sabotage of the policy of national independence was the collapse of Romania in December 1989, its plunder almost in its entirety and the transformation of the country, in the period that followed, into a colony of multinational economic companies.

  • Issue Year: XV/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 34-44
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English