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Vorona is a commune in Botoșani County, Western Moldavia, Romania. It is composed of six villages: Icușeni, Joldești, Poiana, Vorona, Vorona Mare and Vorona-Teodoru.
Regions of the People's Republic of Romania. The regions represented the result of a Soviet -inspired experiment regarding the administrative and territorial organisation of the Romanian People's Republic (later Socialist Republic of Romania) between 1950 and 1968.
- Soviet Occupation and Rise of The Communists
- Romanian People's Republic
- Ceaușescu Government
- Downfall
When King Michael, supported by the main political parties, overthrew Ion Antonescu in August 1944, breaking Romania away from the Axis and bringing it over to the Allied side, Michael could do nothing to erase the memory of his country's recent active participation in the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Romanian forces fought under Soviet com...
Early years
The early years of communist rule in Romania were marked by repeated changes of course and by numerous arrests and imprisonments as factions contended for dominance. The country's resources were also drained by the Soviet's SovRomagreements, which facilitated shipping of Romanian goods to the Soviet Union at nominal prices. On 11 June 1948, all banks and large businesses were nationalized. In the communist leadership, there appear to have been three important factions, all of them Stalinist,...
Gheorghiu-Dej era
Gheorghiu-Dej, a committed Stalinist, was unhappy with the reforms in Nikita Khrushchev's Soviet Union after Stalin's death in 1953. He also balked at Comecon's goal of turning Romania into the "breadbasket" of the East Bloc, pursuing an economic plan based on heavy industry and energy production. The government closed Romania's largest labor camps, abandoned the Danube–Black Sea Canalproject, halted rationing and hiked workers' wages. These factors combined to put Romania under Gheorghiu-Dej...
Persecution, the labour camp system and anti-communist resistance
Once the Communist government became more entrenched, the number of arrests increased. The General Directorate of People's Security, or 'Securitate', was established in 1948 with the stated aim "to defend the democratic conquest and to ensure the security of the Romanian People’s Republic against the plotting of internal and external enemies". All strata of society were involved, but particularly targeted were the prewar elites, such as intellectuals, clerics, teachers, former politicians (ev...
Gheorghiu-Dej died in 1965 and, after a power struggle, was succeeded by the previously obscure Nicolae Ceaușescu. During his last two years, Gheorghiu-Dej had exploited the Soviet–Chinese dispute and begun to oppose the hegemony of the Soviet Union. Ceaușescu, supported by colleagues of Gheorghiu-Dej such as Maurer, continued this popular line. Re...
Brașov Riot
December 1989 was the last act of a finale that had started in 1987, in Brașov. The anti-communist riot in Brașov on 15 November 1987 was the main political event that announced the imminent fall of communism in Romania. The revolt started at the enterprise of Trucks Brașov, as a strike that began on the night of 14 November, on the night-shift, and it continued the next morning with a march downtown, in front of the Council of the Romanian Communist Party.[citation needed] The population hea...
Protests in 1989 before the Revolution
In March 1989, several leading activists of the PCR protested in a letter that criticized the economic policies of Nicolae Ceaușescu, but shortly thereafter Ceaușescu achieved a significant political victory: Romania paid off its external debt of about US$11 billion several months earlier than even the Romanian dictator had expected. Ceaușescu was formally reelected secretary general of the Romanian Communist Party—-the only political party of the Romanian Socialist Republic—-on 14 November a...
Revolution
On 16 December, a protest broke out in Timișoara in response to an attempt by the government to evict the dissident pastor László Tőkés from his church flat. Tőkés had recently made critical comments against the regime to the Hungarian media, and the government alleged that he was inciting ethnic hatred. His parishioners gathered around his home to protect him from harassment and eviction. Many passers-by, including Romanian students, spontaneously joined the protest. Subsequently, police and...
Vorona este o comună în județul Botoșani, Moldova, România, formată din satele Icușeni, Joldești, Poiana, Vorona (reședința), Vorona Mare și Vorona-Teodoru.
Vorona este satul de reședință al comunei cu același nume din județul Botoșani, Moldova, România.
- 1.931 locuitori
- EET (+2)
- 266 m.d.m.
- 39.9K
Vorona Localisation : Country Romania, Județ Botoșani. Available Information : Postal address, Phone number, Fax number, Mayor, Geographical coordinates , Population, Altitude, Area, Weather and Hotel .
Vorona is a commune in Botoșani County, Western Moldavia, Romania. It is composed of six villages: Icușeni, Joldești, Poiana, Vorona, Vorona Mare and Vorona-Teodoru. Overview
