Leonte Răutu (1910-1993)
Leonte Răutu (1910-1993)

Summary/Abstract: Leonte Răutu had one of the longest and most influential career within the Romanian communist establishment, prolonged for more than fifty years. He started his political activity in Bessarabia, his native province, at the beginning of the 30s, and finished it in the early 80s. he survived to all purges deployed within the Romanian Communist Party,displaying an amazing adaptation capacity. In interwar, Răutu worked for the communist movement in Bessarabia, and in Bucharest, when he was a student at the Bucharest University. In 1940, when his native province was occupied by the Soviet Union, he came back there. He spent the Second World War in the Soviet Union. His activity within Radio Moscow-Romanian sector, was his most notorious assignment, which helped him after the war, due to the precious relations achieved during the job. He came back to Romania in 1945 and held the most important positions within the Romanian Communist Party – member the Central Committee for many years (1948-1958,1960-1984), member of the Party’s Secretariat (1965-1969), member of the Executive Committee/ Political Executive Committee (1965-1981). He is best known as the formal and informal head of the propaganda sector.

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