How the Communist Party was born, which sought the dismemberment of the country: Dobrogea to be given to Bulgaria, Transylvania to Hungary, and Bessarabia to the “great Soviet Union” VIDEO

On May 8, 1921, he started at Bucharest Congress of the Socialist Party of Romania, when it was decided to transform the formation into the Communist Party of Romania.

The history of socialism in our country began in 1893, when the first workers’ party in Romania was founded, the Workers’ Social Democratic Party (PSDMR). In May 1921, the communist faction broke away, forming the Communist Party of Romania (PCdR).

The pioneer of Romanian socialism was Constantin Dobrogeanu Gherea. “He had read Marx, but at the same time he was more attentive to the social specifics of Romania at that time – he dealt with the problem of serfdom, the situation of the Romanian peasant. So it is not the Marxism of the West that deals with the workers in the cities. Such was the Romanian specificity – 80% of the population lived in the village at the end of the 19th century. In 1893, a social democratic party of Romanian workers was born. Later, this socialism will lose its influence – especially after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia – and will break the social democratic party that had already modernized. In May 1921, a wing of the party broke – the rebels went to Lenin, to Saint Petersburg and accepted the 21 conditions set by the Bolsheviks”says historian Adrian Cioroianu.

The Communist Party did not have time to organize itself very strongly because in 1924 it was outlawed, being accused of anti-Romanian actions – first by a military order issued by the commander of the II Army Corps from Bessarabia, then in December by The “Mârzescu” law, the liberal Minister of Justice.

The Tatar-Bunar rebellion, from September 15-18, 1924, orchestrated by the Soviets with the support of the Romanian communists, made the legal existence of this party a major risk for national security. It was about a party that officially proposed the dismemberment of Romania, stating in its programmatic documents that Dobrogea must be returned to Bulgaria, Transylvania, Hungary and, obviously, Bessarabia, to the “great Soviet Union”, writes Dan Falcan in Historia.

In 1927, the socialist movement in Romania was reunited within the Social Democratic Party (PSD), but in 1938, the Carlist dictatorship banned all political parties

After August 23, 1944, both PSD and PCR are officially re-established. In 1948, PSD and PCR merged and the Romanian Workers’ Party (PMR) was born. In 1965, the PMR becomes the Romanian Communist Party (PCR).

“All the communist parties in Europe took the path of Stalinism after 1945. Only later will a difference occur, in the sense that Yugoslavia, Albania, China, Romania, after the 60s, start to go in a national direction, try to adapt communism to certain national traditions and to get out of the Soviet influence. Tito quarrels with Stalin – he is the first communist without being a Stalinist”says historian Adrian Cioroianu in an interview for Adevărul de Weekend.

Nicolae Ceaușescu, friendly discussion with Gheorghe Cristescu, the first general secretary of the communists

Communism, he believes, was a utopia that was not realized. “Romania was never communist, but “communized” – that is, under the rule of a party that called itself communist. Romania never reached communism, nor does today’s China claim to have reached it – communism is a goal. Why didn’t it come true? Precisely because it is a utopia, it is based on a denial of human nature. When you say that all people are equal, you are wrong – the ruling class had replaced the old nobility, the nomenclature were a kind of party nobles, what were the tsars in Russia became the Soviet leaders, here Ceausescu was a kind of pharaoh who did what he wanted. This shows the difference between theory and practice. Man defends his property – communism takes it away. Man wants to have as much as possible – communism says you should only take what you need. And, often, we know too well: not even what people needed was given.”