VASELE CULTURALE ȘI CINEMATOGRAFICE DE PE DUNĂRE – SIMBOLURI ALE PROPAGANDEI COMUNISTE ÎN REALITATEA ANILOR ’50
CULTURAL AND CINEMA VESSELS ON THE DANUBE – SYMBOLS OF COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA IN THE REALITY OF THE 1950s

Summary/Abstract: After the Romanian Communist Party (became the Romanian Workers' Party since 1948) took over the levers of power with the direct and brutal support of the Soviet Union, the new authorities in Bucharest sought by any means to justify and consolidate their existence as quickly as possible. This is how it happens that at the national level, following the Soviet interwar model, an extensive and energetic propaganda work was started, aimed at showing the population the benefits of the new regime and its goodwill towards some professional categories.And in order to make propaganda more efficient, culture was among the first areas targeted. On the one hand, to be broken from the course until then and to be Sovietized, and on the other hand, to become a tool as powerful as it is docile and effective for the regime. The new Romanian culture had to conform strictly to the Marxist ideology and the model from the Soviet Union, everything that belonged to the old "bourgeois-landlord" regime had to be removed.Against this background, most cultural institutions underwent rapid and drastic changes, and many people of culture and science were either removed or even suppressed, or turned to face the communist power, this process culminating in the drastic change of the highest scientific forum in Romania, the Academy, which became the Academy of the Romanian People's Republic.Absolutely all cultural fields will carry out their activity imitating, sometimes to the point of grotesqueness, the style of Soviet-inspired socialist realism, among the most exposed to the public being literature, the press and cinematography, fields with a high degree of penetration at the level of the collective mind.

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