Word: dej
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Refuting the Lie. Back home in Bucharest this week, Nicolae Ceausescu (pronounced Chow-shess-coo) quietly celebrated the successful completion of his first full year in power. Under Ceausescu and his predecessor, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who died of pneumonia just a year ago, Rumania has utterly disproved two-thirds of Czar Nicholas' caustic calumny.* Rumania today is indubitably a state, defiantly a nation, and quite proud to admit the Czar's final point about professionalism. Moreover, it was Rumania that in many ways set the pace in the quiet repudiation of the Czar's successors-a chain...
...national Communist who eluded the Stalin purges in Rumania was Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, a hardhanded railroad worker turned revolutionary. During the war, while Ana Pauker hid safely in Moscow, Dej and his associates organized anti-fascist resistance or else languished in the cells of various Rumanian prisons. By 1952, Dej and the nationalists who remained in the party had gained enough control in the Politburo to purge Ana Pauker. Dej still hewed cautiously to the Stalinist line, remained friendly with Moscow even after the dictator had died and been denounced. There were signs of the break to come, however...
Fathers & Sons. The Dej revolt against Moscow began in 1961 with public attacks on "erroneous theories that deny each socialist country the right to build heavy industry"-a clear challenge to COMECON, which saved...
...Maurer, 63, the lawyer son of a wealthy member of the prewar bourgeoisie, is suave, cultivated, and was enough of a linguist during World War II to spring Dej from prison: dressed in an officer's uniform and purring perfect German, he waved a handful of spurious orders and marched off with a detachment of prisoners, Dej and Ceausescu included...
...Boulevard. In his four months on the job, Ceausescu has also provided liberation of sorts to Rumanian life. Noting that "diversity of style is peculiar to art and literature," he has gone even farther than Dej in freeing Rumanian artists from strict socialist realism. Abstractionist vernissages are blossoming along Bucharest's fashionable Boulevard Magheru, and even top party people can be seen carting home a nonobjective painting. Kafka is all the rage, and more American movies than Russian are running in Bucharest's cinemas; the Broadway play Rhinoceros was a theater season sellout, and not just because lonesco...