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...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...
...Ceausescu rose rapidly toward the top, though he remained aloof from the Pauker group in the process. By 1955, at the precocious age of 37, he was a full-fledged Politburo member, two years later took charge of party organization and cadres-which made him second only to Dej in power and influence. The stocky figure with the curly brown hair and perpetually wrinkled forehead popped up everywhere as Dej's delegate: Moscow in 1959 and 1961, Italy in 1962, Peking in 1964. On his only known Western vacation, Ceausescu checked into Paris' Prince de Galles Hotel...
Ceausescu did not inherit his predecessor's taste for luxury, dresses modestly, has no penchant for publicity; there are no photographs of him in Bucharest's streets. He keeps his private life so quiet that no one is sure where he lives. Dej had a chain of villas-one in Sinaia, one in Predeal, another in Mamaia, and one replete with private movie theater, a television screen that covered a wall, electronic door openers and infra-red radiators. Hard-working and humorless, clever but cautious, Ceausescu is infra-Red all by himself...