Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
47th Prime Minister of Romania (1952-1955)
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Lived 1901–1965, aged 64
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He took Romania from kingdom to communist state in 1947 and held it for eighteen years — loyal to Moscow on paper, but uneasy enough with Khrushchev's thaw to start cracking the door to the West while tightening the grip at home.
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Born in Bârlad in 1901, Gheorghiu-Dej moved through the communist underground in the early 1930s and spent the war years imprisoned at Târgu Jiu, escaping only in August 1944. After King Michael's forces arrested Antonescu, Gheorghiu-Dej and prime minister Petru Groza forced the King's abdication in December 1947, ending the monarchy. As first secretary of the Romanian Workers' Party and later Prime Minister, he ran Romania as one of the Soviet Union's most obedient satellites, though Khrushchev's de-Stalinization unnerved him enough to expand trade with the West while his government committed…
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