The Secret Report of Nikita Khruschev and Its Effects in Romania
Journal Title: ANALELE UNIVERSITATII "DUNAREA DE JOS" DIN GALATI. SERIA 19, ISTORIE - Year 2003, Vol 2, Issue 2
Abstract
In the present study, our goal is to analyze the Romanian echoes of the secret speech delivered by Nikita Khrushchev at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (February, 1956). The speech denounced the personality cult of Stalin, and at the same time proved Khrushchev's will to reorganize on new bases the structures of power. One of its aims was also to get rid of Stalin's henchmen in the satellite countries. In these very countries, the personality cult was denounced, and some of the leaders were substituted by new officials who appraised the reform. In Romania, Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej delivered a speech concerning the talks in Moscow with the occasion of the Session of the Central Committee of the Romanian Party of the Workers (March, 23-28, 1956). He accused Ana Pauker, Vasile Luca and Teohani Georgescu of Having introduced the personality cult in Romania. Their elimination from power in 1952, Dej stated, represented the final step of the "destalinisation" process in Romania. The personality cult will nevertheless continue to subsist at the level of the Party's lower hierarchy. In this manner, Dej presented himself as a reformist, a faithful advocate of Khrushchev's ideas. Most of the participants adopted Dej's point of view. However, at the sessions of the Political Office of the Romanian Communist party, in April, 1956, Iosif Chişinevschi and Miron Constantinescu accused Dej for his dictatorial tendencies. Their attempt to get rid of Dej failed. Dej's revenge was tough in July 1957, when both of them were invited to step out of the Political Office.
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Elisabeta NEAGOE
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