See also: Gheorghiu (homonymy)

For the town of named Romania in the past Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, to see Oneşti

Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (November 8th 1901, Bârlad - March 19th, 1965, Bucharest) was the Head of the communist State of the Romania of 1948 until its death in 1965.

The chief of the faction of the prison

Gheorghiu-Dej joined the Rumanian Communist party in 1930. Railwayman, it is stopped because of his participation in the strike of Griviţa (1933) and is imprisoned with the Prison of Doftana in 1933. In 1936 it is elected with the Central committee party and becomes chief of the “faction of the prison” of the party (i.e. members of the party who were imprisoned by the fascistic mode, in opposition to those which lived in exile in Soviet Union). He escapes from the Concentration camp of Târgu Jiu in August 1944.

The seizure of power vis-a-vis the Muscovite faction

He becomes general secretary of the Communist party in 1944, but its capacity only in 1952 consolidates by évinçant Anna Pauker and the “Muscovite faction” of the party. Anna Pauker was leading nonofficial Communist party since the end of the Second world war. Gheorghiu-Dej is also the principal instigator of the assassination of Ştefan Foriş in 1946 and of the arrest of Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu in 1948, two of its rivals within the party.

Years of iron

Gheorghiu-Dej is a Stalinist enthusiast who is disturbed by the Déstalinisation of Nikita Khrouchtchev. It is the Architecte of the foreign and economic politics independent of the Romania within the Warsaw Pact at the end of the years 1950. It creates the Rumanian equivalent of the Soviet Gulag S and rests on the Securitate to consolidate its capacity. It carries out a destalinization limited and a certain disengagement with respect to the communist bloc for the period of destalinization of Moscow. Nicolae Ceauşescu, presented like its dolphin, will succeed to him in 1965 with the head of the Communist party of Romania.

The characteristic of Romania in the Warsaw Pact

At the end of its life, Gheorghiu-Dej establishes diplomatic relations with the Western the United States and countries. These stages are largely encouraged by the American authorities and the president Lyndon B. Johnson, who makes of Romania in 1963 a privileged communist Pays.

Its right-hand man is Gheorghe Gaston Marin, vice-president of the government, which joins again the political relations and economic between Romania the Western United States and countries during the cold war in 1963. Sailor is the last support of Dej to be isolated government in 1982 by Nicolae Ceauşescu, and emigrates later towards Israel in 1989.

End of its life

Gheorghiu-Dej dies into 1965 of a cancer of the liver with Bucharest. Some claim that it had been irradiated intentionally with Moscow because of its last political opposition.

It was buried in a mausoleum in the park of the Freedom of Bucharest. In 1990, after the Rumanian Revolution of 1989, its body is exhumed and D-buried in a cemetery of Bucharest.

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