Gheorghe Oprea (1927-1998)
Gheorghe Oprea (1927-1998)

Summary/Abstract: Gheorghe Oprea, a high ranked party functionary, was born in 1927 in a needy family from Prahova region. All his family, and he as well, worked for oil plants from the region. A very good, thirst for knowledge student, with an appropriate social and political background, in 1949 Oprea was selected and sent to University for Workers' Education in Bucharest. Short of well-prepared cadres, after graduation the Romanian Workers Party kept the young graduate in its central administration. Meanwhile, he completed his higher education at the Polytechnic of Bucharest. A mechanical engineer, Gh. Oprea had a long career within both the Romanian Communist Party and Romanian state central administration, being a member of party central leading bodies and a deputy prime-minister for many years, in charge of economic issues. Gh. Oprea was arrested in December 1989, when he was coming back from Turkey, where he had headed an official Romanian delegation. In the phoney years that followed the end of communism in Romania, Oprea was trailed, acquitted, trialled again and sentenced to 14 years in jail and finally pardoned in November 1996. He passed away in 1998, in Bucharest.

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