• the Romanian organization Corpul Muncitoresc Legionar was created by the Iron Guard in order to rally the working class around fascism?

Facts on topics related to Corpul Muncitoresc Legionar

Ion Antonescu

• Maria Antonescu, wife of Romania's World War II dictator Ion Antonescu, presided over charities financed though the extortion of local Jews?

National Renaissance Front

• the ideology of the Romanian National Renaissance Front has been described as "operetta fascism"?

Romanian Communist Party

• Romanian avant-garde writer and classical violinist Grigore Cugler publicly criticized Communist Party politician Ana Pauker and resigned his diplomatic post, living the rest of his life in Peru?
• Emil Calmanovici, the main financial backer of the Romanian Communist Party in the 1940s, was later imprisoned by Communist authorities and died as a result of force-feeding?
• results of the 1946 Romanian general election, the first in Romania under universal suffrage, were manipulated by the Communist Party?
• the Romanian communist politician Valter Roman was active not only in the Romanian Communist Party, but also in the communist parties in Czechoslovakia, France, and Spain?
• the Romanian Proclamation of Timişoara unsuccessfully called for lustration to be applied to former Communist Party officials?
• the Romanian politician Constantin Argetoianu, who organized repression of the Communist Party and announced the group's effective termination in 1922, spent his final years as a political prisoner of the Communist regime?

Alexandru Nicolschi

• despite being a Soviet citizen and a confirmed NKVD agent, Alexandru Nicolschi served as head of Communist Romania's secret police?

History of the Jews in Romania

• Maria Antonescu, wife of Romania's World War II dictator Ion Antonescu, presided over charities financed though the extortion of local Jews?
• a series of measures taken by Romanian Prime Minister Ion Gigurtu, including official persecution of Jews, failed to sway Adolf Hitler from his demand that Romania cede Northern Transylvania to Hungary?

Iron Guard

• the Romanian organization Corpul Muncitoresc Legionar was created by the Iron Guard in order to rally the working class around fascism?

Romania

• "the light arises in the East", an apparently pro-Soviet slogan coined by Romanian writer Mihail Sadoveanu in 1945, is seen by some as a coded warning to his fellow Freemasons about communization?
• 45,000 Romanians living along the border with Yugoslavia were forcibly deported on June 18, 1951 due to deteriorating relations between the two countries?
• Caryl Churchill's play Mad Forest, developed partly in Bucharest in collaboration with Romanian and English drama students, was in production less than six months after the Romanian Revolution of 1989?
• exploitation film director/producer S. S. Millard was able to pass himself off as Romanian nobility when a former Romanian queen visited California?
• fairy tale collector Nicolae Constantin Batzaria was an Aromanian representative among the Young Turks, an Ottoman government minister, and one of Romania's best-known creators of comic strips?
• Romania's Daewoo Mangalia shipyard has built over 127 new ships and repaired another 300 since its founding in 1997?
• Romania's Piteşti prison housed the largest and most intensive form of brainwashing through torture ever carried out in the Eastern bloc?
• Romania's ruling Social Democratic–Democratic Liberal coalition was divided over Education Minister Ecaterina Andronescu's intervention in the appointment of school directors?
• Romanian avant-garde writer and classical violinist Grigore Cugler publicly criticized Communist Party politician Ana Pauker and resigned his diplomatic post, living the rest of his life in Peru?
• Romanian communist poet Alexandru Toma adapted several works of his Classicist predecessor Mihai Eminescu, removing their pessimistic tone and adding Socialist Realist rhetoric?