Word: anas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without the slightest hint of praise for her valuable services in the past-such as the time she unselfishly let the executioners of the NKVD dispose of her husband-the Communists tried to explain last week what led to the downfall of Rumania's Ana Pauker, the beefy First Lady of Communism (TIME, June...
...Ana was left with her title of Foreign Minister, and was even allowed to sit on the ministers' bench one day last week while the National Assembly awarded the premiership of Red Rumania to her archrival, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej.* But, no doubt about it, she was in bad odor...
...state, support of counter-revolutionary elements, suppression of criticism, double-dealing opportunism, laziness in the development of collective farms, unprincipled relations within the party, tolerance toward the kulaks, rightist deviations and-to keep things in balance-leftist deviations. The fact was, said the Communists with horror, that Ana had taken to living on "a slope of aristocracy...
...Communists took over, there was devaluation of the currency. Money which could have bought a pair of shoes suddenly dropped to the value of a pack of cigarettes. The time had come to dim the spotlight on Soviet power, and to 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...
...trained Rudolf Slansky was dumped in favor of native son Clement Gottwald. But in Rumania, although arrests of minor government officers and army officers are taking place on all sides, the trouble does not yet seem serious enough to warrant a full-dress trial of the big-time scapegoats. Ana still hangs on to her job at the Org-buro, the organizational center of the Communist Party-in the shadow, but still around in case of another unpredictable change in the weather...