Raporturile dintre Mişcarea Legionară şi Partidul Comunist Român în perioada 1945-1948
The Relations between the Legionary Movement and the RCP, 1945-1948

Summary/Abstract: The Iron-Guardist/Legionary Movement (LM) represented a strong and troublesome opponent for the Communist Party in its fighting for power before the setting up of the Communist regime. For the Iron-Guardist Movement, the Communist – Legionary Pact was a desperate attempt of the legionary group led from inside by Nicolae Petrascu and orchestrated from exile by Horia Sima, an attempt to continue the fight for power under the cover of the Romanian Communist Party. For the Romanian Communist Party and its representatives, who had already taken the power on March 6th, 1945 through the Petru Groza Government, it was an opportunity to have some agents infiltrated in order to find and arrest the legionnaires. After March 9th, 1945, the repression against LM reached its most violent form of manifestation. For example, members of LM who had been released from prison in 1945, as a consequence of the Communist – Legionary Pact, were arrested again in the night of May 14th/15th, 1948.

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