Word: gheorghiu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Early in 1941, while she was in a Rumanian prison, Prime Minister Antonescu had the idea of exchanging Ana for a leader of the Peasant Party, Ion Codreanu, held by the Russians. The Russians wanted a package deal: they would trade Codreanu for Ana and another Rumanian Communist named Gheorghiu-Dej. When Antonescu insisted on a one-for-one trade, the Russians were quite ready to let Ana rot in jail, and asked only for Gheorghiu-Dej. Instead wily Antonescu gave them Ana. While Gheorghiu-Dej sweated out the war in a concentration camp, Ana squeezed herself into...
...divert unrest by playing up nationalism. Last week Ana Pauker was quietly dropped from the roster of secretaries of the Rumanian Communist Party and the Politburo. Along with her went Vasile Luca and Teohari Georgescu, both Moscow-trained Communists. Into the amber spot at stage center the Communists pushed Gheorghiu-Dej, the man left in prison back in 1941. He became Premier...
...Twenty-Fifth Hour, by Virgil Gheorghiu. A concentration-camp novel which has become Europe's bestseller (TIME...
...Twenty-Fifth Hour, by Virgil Gheorghiu. A concentration-camp novel which has become Europe's bestseller (TIME...
...Twenty-Fifth Hour, by Virgil Gheorghiu. A concentration-camp novel which has become Europe's bestseller (TIME...