Nicolae Ceaușescu ar fi preferat ca România să fie în afara Pactului de la Varșovia! Convorbiri cu liderul sovietic Iuri V. Andropov, 1982-1983
Nicolae Ceauşescu would have preferred Romania to be outside the Warsaw Pact! Talks with Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov (1982-1983)

Summary/Abstract: The attempts of the Romanian leadership to put on the first plan their view about vital matters for the Soviet Union (economic cooperation between CMEA members, Sino-Soviet split, arms race, disarmament, abolition of military blocs) trigger a negative attitude on the part of the Soviets. As a result, Romania became in Moscow's eyes a dissident who constantly tried to ignore many of the Warsaw Pact rules. Yuri V. Andropov, who became on 12 November 1982 General Secretary of CC of the CPSU after the death of Leonid I. Brezhnev, strongly believe that any dissent is a danger for the monolithic unity of the socialist bloc and might be rooted out immediately. This was the main reason for Andropov's distant and unfriendly attitude towards Romanians communist leadership, which increased when he was elected General Secretary of CC of the CPSU. In this short period (1982-1984), Andropov met tête-à-tête with Nicolae Ceaușescu twice, on 21 December 1982 and on 4 January 1983. Romanian archives don't preserve the records for this meeting, but we have found the Soviet records in the Russian State Archive of Contemporary History (RGANI) in the Fond Yuri V. Andropov. We are publishing a Romanian translation of these two documents.

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