Moartea unui dictator leninist: „Amintirea tovarășului Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, veşnic vie în inima partidului, a clasei muncitoare, a poporului…”
The Death of a Leninist Dictator: „The memory of comrade Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, forever living in the heart of the party, of the working class, and of the people...“

Summary/Abstract: The article is a critical synthesis of the life and fate of Leninist dictator Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, focusing on his role as a central figure within Romanian communism.At the moment of his unexpected demise on March 19, 1965, he was the undisputed leader of the Romanian communist oligarchy. Educated in prison according to Stalin’s writings, Gheorghiu-Dej was a true believer who cynically wedded the Leninistexclusionary principle „kto-kogo“ (who-whom) with pragmatic adjustments and travesties. He loathed any genuine intellectual and theoretical endeavors. When he passed away, he left behind a strategy that could have led either to Yugoslavisation(Tito’s model) or to Albanisation (Hoxha’s model). However, what followed was Nicolae Ceauşescu’s own version of socialism, who carried to an extreme the logic of national Stalinism initiated under his former mentor and protector.

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