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Summary/Abstract: ACAD. RAZVAN THEODORESCU, March-April 1959 at the Faculty of History of Bucharest University. Recollections. On March 12 1959, in the main hall of Student House 303 in Cotroceni district, professors Dionisie Pippidi, Mihai Berza and Ion Nestor from the Faculty of History were exposed before a specially convened meeting, starting from their refusal to sign a message in favor of the Greek communist Manolis Glezos. As he sided with his professors, student Razvan Theodorescu was in his turn exposed three weeks later, being accused of conciliatoriness, anti-Sovietism, membership in a spiritualist group, elitism and so on. On April 18, 1959 he was ousted from the Youth Union (UTM) and expelled from the Faculty of History for “inimical political attitude.” ION ILIESCU, 1971 – The Year of Ideological Changes in Romania In February 1971, Ion Iliescu was promoted to the position of secretary of the CC of the RCP in charge of party propaganda. At the plenum of the party’s ideological cadre in July 1971, Nicolae Ceausescu outlined an ideological program designed to reinvigorate ideological and educational action in the party and in society, to make up for the lack of militancy and for the influence of certain petty bourgeois, decadent mentalities. Those criticized at the time included Ion Iliescu, accused of intellectualist tendencies. In November the Executive Committee dismissed him from the position of secretary of the CC of the RCP and assigned him to humbler jobs in Timisoara and then in Iasi. Ion Iliescu establishes a connection between the 1971 ideological veering and Nicolae Ceausescu’s recent visit to countries in Asia, including China and North Korea.

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