Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej

Gheorghe Gheorghiu -Dej, [ ɡeorɡe ɡeorɡju deʒ ], ( born November 8, 1901 in Bârlad, † March 19, 1965 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian politician.

Life

Being an electrician in the Romanian railway he organized after having completed his military service in 1933, a strike, and he was sentenced to twelve years hard labor. After Romania aufkündigte the alliance with Germany in World War II, he took on August 23, 1944, the leadership of the Romanian Communist Party ( PCR).

Policy

In October 1945, he was elected with the approval of Stalin as General Secretary of the PCR. Gheorghiu -Dej is responsible for the close-knit structure of the security service Securitate, initiated in the 1950s, the Sovietization of Romania, 1962, the forced collectivization and began the construction of the Danube-Black Sea Canal by political prisoners.

In his reign ( Prime Minister from 1952 to 1955, 1955 to 1961, he was First Secretary of the Party, State President of Romania from 1961 to 1965 ) also drops an experiment of political prisoners who torture each other and had to extract confessions. In the 1950s and 1960s, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej led but increasingly a course of the relative distance to the Soviet Union. In March 1965, he died, a day after his re- election as president, from lung cancer. He was succeeded by Nicolae Ceauşescu.

According to him, today's industrial city Oneşti was appointed in March 1965, which at that time was on the drawing board, among others, for the chemical industry. After the revolution of 1989, the city received in 1995, but again their former name. The Russian city was Liski 1965-1991 Gheorghiu - Desch ( Георгиу - Деж ).

Works

  • 30 years struggle of the party under the banner of Lenin and Stalin. Report in the festal gathering on May 8, 1951 in honor of the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Romania. ( International Series, No. 18), Dietz Verlag, Berlin, 1953.
  • Articles and speeches: choice from the years 1945 - 1952 Dietz -Verlag, Berlin, 1955.
  • Articles and Speeches: December 1955 - July 1959 Political Publishing House, Bucharest, 1959.
  • Articles and speeches: August 1959 - May 1961 Political Publishing House, Bucharest, 1961.
  • Articles and speeches: June 1961 - December 1962 Political Publishing House, Bucharest, 1963.
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