Polish Crisis’ Effects in Romania in the Early 1980s
Polish Crisis’ Effects in Romania in the Early 1980s

Summary/Abstract: In Nicolae Ceaușescu’s opinion, the incompetence and lack of discipline of the popular masses and state institutions provoked the economic crisis in Romania at the beginning of the ’80. Instead, the Romanian Communist Party, and especially its leader, was exempted from responsibility. Blaming the popular masses and the state bodies for the obvious failure of the supreme leader of RCP in the economic policy promoted in the ’70s was actually a political manoeuvre aiming at avoiding a crisis similar to the one in Poland, where workers were openly and strongly contesting the leading role of the PUWP - the leaders of this party being considered the main culprits for the economic disaster that had seized Poland at that time.

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