SOVIET PERSONALITIES IN THE ROMANIAN PARLIAMENT DEBATES (1919-1937)
SOVIET PERSONALITIES IN THE ROMANIAN PARLIAMENT DEBATES (1919-1937)

Summary/Abstract: During the post-war period, Romanian MP’s were generally informedabout Soviet personalities. Some of the information about the Soviet realities,especially the predictions about the leaders of the neighbouring state, waswrong. But these wrong predictions are explicable; the public opinion inWestern Europe, and even the Soviet citizens, believed them. At one moment,Lev Trotski and Grigori Zinoviev were considered the possible V. I. Lenin’successors and V. Stalin was an anonymous person. Stalin’s victory againstLev Trotski was initially saluted by some Romanian MPs, who provided a newmoderate Soviet regime. The „Iron Man” dictatorship was understood andrevealed only in the years 1936-1937. It was also during these years thatRomanian politicians warned about a possible leadership change at Kremlin,the appearance of a pro-Nazi Soviet ruler. The Soviet personalities ofRomanian origins especially generated internal debates.

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