Word: codreanu
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...first time. Early in 1941, while she was in a Rumanian prison, Prime Minister Antonescu had the idea of exchanging Ana for a leader of the Peasant Party, Ion Codreanu, held by the Russians. The Russians wanted a package deal: they would trade Codreanu for Ana and another Rumanian Communist named Gheorghiu-Dej. When Antonescu insisted on a one-for-one trade, the Russians were quite ready to let Ana rot in jail, and asked only for Gheorghiu-Dej. Instead wily Antonescu gave them Ana. While Gheorghiu-Dej sweated out the war in a concentration camp, Ana squeezed herself into...
...Zelea Codreanu was corn and grew up in Rumanian Moldavia, a passionate, tormented patriot, who won a reputation as the greatest Jew-baiter in the most anti-Semitic town of the most anti-Semitic country in Europe. After World...
...Corneliu turned the father's theorizing into practice, founded the wild-eyed, green-shirted Iron Guard-mystic, antiSemitic, pro-Nazi but also ferociously patriotic. When Corneliu was slain by King Carol's orders in 1938, canonized by his followers, old Ion Codreanu, then 66, felt duty bound to step from the background into active leadership of the most jingoistic faction of the Iron Guard...
...Murdered along with the police who had carried out the Iron Guard execution two years before were onetime Iron-Guard-purging Premier General George Argeseanu; General Gabriel Marinescu, onetime Bucharest police chief and watchdog over King Carol's redheaded paramour Magda Lupescu; Victor Ismandi, Minister of Justice when Codreanu was sentenced to prison...
...Orthodox Church of Ilie Gorgani in Bucharest, through the floodlit, green-draped entrance, past the urns of burning incense on the stone stairway. Before the altar, where 26 uniformed Iron Guard youths stood at attention, they knelt, joined the solemn prayers of the priests over the candlelit caskets of Codreanu and his "martyred" followers...