Ceausescu Regime in Romania

Ceausescu was born in 1918 in the province of Oltenia, a member of a large and poor peasant family which was dominated by his drunkard and abusive father. Oltenia was the poorest and most Oriental part of modern Romania. Its peasantry had been brutalized by the Turks for centuries. Ceausescu was born with a speech defect. In his youth, he experienced "rejection, privation and imprisonment" (in 1936 and 1940 for his communist activities), which Binder believes may help explain his later craving for adulation from his followers (37). Ceaucescu had been a protege of Party Secretary Gheorghe GheorghiuDej, whom Josef Stalin hand picked to run Romania after World War II during which the Russians invaded Romania (in 1944). The Romania over which Ceausescu assumed power in 1965 after Gheorghiu's death had

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As Ceaucescu grew older, he became more paranoid and encouraged the development of a cult of personality reminiscent of the latter days of Stalin`s rule in the Soviet Union. His wife became First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers. More than 30 of his relatives held high posts. Ruinous Economic Policies Even in the prewar period the state had played a central role in Romania's uneven industrialization. After the war, Staliniststyle central plans for forced industrialization were initiated. On one large project begun in 1949, the construction of a canal from the Danube to the Black Sea, Kaplan estimates about 100,000 laborers perished (12). Ceausescu accelerated this process. Huge irrigation projects were launched and monstrously uneconomic steel, aluminum and petrochemical plants were built. His heretical stance on foreign policy led to large foreign loans for development, which became difficult to repay after Romania found itself saddled with disadvantageous oil refining contracts with the Soviet Union and little domestic or foreign market for its products. The Europa Yearbook says that "by the 1980s the country was experiencing serious economic difficulties" (2540). Ceausescu bought down Romania's extern
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Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page)

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