Oficiul pentru Reconstrucţia Moldovei (1945-1949)
The Agency for the Reconstruction of Moldavia (1945-1949)

Summary/Abstract: This article intends to present one of the organizations created by the communist leadership for the reconstruction of the villages destroyed by the war, which traverses a predictable passage from a generous idea to a tool of propaganda deprived of content. Much like other organizations of that time, The Agency for the Reconstruction of Moldavia (Oficiul pentru Reconstrucţia Moldovei – ORM) has high goals and poor achievements but presented in a favourable manner in order to be used for the strengthen of the only party. ORM was an organization meant to accomplish the reconstruction or the restoring in a short time of 22.256 houses (17.000 among these were located in Iaşi, Baia and Roman), also 476 schools, 143 city halls, 169 churches and 176 clinics, public baths and cultural centres. From this huge task the construction of 1.829 house has been initiated and only 473 of these, representing 2%, were finalized. This shows how mach is propaganda and how much are the real accomplishments. This organization should have been the main support for thousands of families living in improvised shelters or in simple pit in soil, decimated by typhus and starvation. The communist assumed all the credit even from the beginning accusing the governs prior to 6th of March 1945 that they did nothing, initiating the “action for extracting the peasants from pit houses”. Teohari Georgesu “according to the suggestions of the Central Comity of Romanian Communist Party, in June 1945 begun a vast plan of reconstruction of the households of the Moldavian peasants destroyed by the war”. The initial reports of the ORM leadership were very optimistic, considering the establishment of construction yards all over Moldavia a real prove for the peasants of the interest manifested by the party towards their needs and the campaign of building houses for the peasants was considered a completion of the agrarian reform and of the peasants love for the working class party and for the Groza govern. In 1948 the leadership of ARM had lost the enthusiasm and noted that the problem of reconstructing the peasant’s households was no longer a priority and it will be resumed in a different stage of the general plan of recovering of the country. We believe that this paper shows pretty clear that the organization was created by the communists only for image because it was not sustained in finishing its mandate and this was proved also by the fact that after the establishment of the “people” power it was abolished. Finally, we appreciate that the documents within this fund complete the information on the economic and social situation of Moldavia after war and the manner how the communist party knew how to manipulate the state’ institutions and their accomplishments in order to obtain the maximum of benefits.

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