Anna Pauker , born Hannah Rabinsohn , (February 13rd 1893 - June 14th 1960) was leading a Rumanian Communiste .
In 1938, her husband Marcel Pauker, communist former militant who was then in the USSR, is stopped and carried out at the time of the “Grandes Stalinist Purgings”. This event does not divert however Anna Pauker of its enthusiastic communist convictions and its attachment with Stalin and in the Soviet Union.
Of return in Romania, where it undertakes a clandestine activity, it is stopped, then released again in 1940 following an prisoner exchange between the Soviet Union and the Romania. In September 1944, it becomes member of the Secretariat of the Central committee of the Rumanian Communist party. It represents the Rumanian PC at the time of the conference of foundation of the Kominform, then becomes Minister for the Foreign affairs in September 1947, and later Deputy Prime Minister.
In 1952, it is dislocated of its functions in the party and to the government for “cosmopolitanism” and “deviation of right-hand side” following a fight of influence lost vis-a-vis the first secretary Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, supported by Joseph Stalin, whereas new purifications are organized against former Communist leaders and that a campaign against Jewish intellectuals is launched.
It is stopped in February 1953, then released after the death of Stalin and placed during several years under house arrest. Exclude from the party of the workmen, it is authorized to work as translator of German and French at the political Publisher.
She dies of the continuations of a cancer the June 3rd 1960 with Bucharest. One of the founders of the Rumanian Communist party, the veteran Gheorghe Cristescu-Plapumaru attended the ceremony of its incineration.
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