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Like most Communists, she got around; her name popped up in Prague, Vienna, Berlin, Paris. She learned seven languages. In Paris, she met handsome Maurice Thorez, with whom her friendship was more than political. In 1933, together with fellow Communists George Gheorghiu-Dej and Constantin Doncea, Pauker organized the Bucharest railway strike which ended in bloody fighting between the barricaded workers and government troops...
...Party, helped her and publicly defended her right to free speech. She was sentenced to ten years in jail. There Ana, who had always hated sewing, became expert at embroidery, sold her own work and that of other women prisoners. During Spain's Civil War Ana, jailed in Bucharest, embroidered a scarf for La Pasionaria...
...bind Rumania to Moscow by means more subtle and less costly than the Red army. Complicating factors were the anti-Communist and anti-Russian feelings, of the Rumanian people. One day in 1945 Ana Pauker's great & good friend Vishinsky flew to Bucharest. He insisted that Pietru Groza be made Premier...
Peasants are forced to give up a fixed quota of their crops even if the harvest is bad and they have not enough left for themselves; recently, peasants in the Banat burned their crops in protest against the system. A recent visitor described Bucharest as a "city with the air of a pawnshop." The only way the Rumanian middle class can keep alive is by slowly selling its possessions. The few men who still run their businesses actually hope for nationalization. New laws covering "economic sabotage" may land a businessman in jail for carrying out any simple deal...
...many drunks on Saturday night; Ana has had to transform two theaters into prisons. Among those arrested: beautiful Florica Bagdasar, Minister of Public Health; General Michael Lascar of Pauker's own Tudor Vladimirescu division; General Constantin Ionescu, chief of the General Staff; Constantin Doncea, deputy mayor of Bucharest, colonel in the Red army, member of the Communist Central Committee, and Pauker's old comrade. Said she: "Doncea fell into petty bourgeois habits ... I advise all Communists not to sleep on their glory, and take heed from this lesson...