Politica pronatalistă în România comunistă, o cale de control al vieții private
Pro-natalist politics in communist Romania, a way of controlling private life

Summary/Abstract: The radiography of the Communist Romania medical system, that I am interrested to present along side this article, pays attention to the reality that the centralization principle, under the direct command of the state-party represented, equally, also a form of control over the entire medical activity. Implying a very rigorous ranking, as results from the normative documents of the time, it is questionable if the system functioned when patients came in contact with it, especially in conditions of shortage of human resources, technology and medical infrastructure, which has worsened over time and especially during the decade before the regime change. On the other side, the public centralization of thea health system, proper to the Communist regime, it allowed not only control over it as such, but also over the privacy and individual decisions of citizens, reality that I illustrate by referring to the aberrant pronatalist policy of the Ceaușescu regime, initiated in 1966 and continued assiduously until 1989. A hyper-centralized but totally underperforming medical system has guaranteed, for 23 years, the abuse of privacy and the loss of thousands of human lives.

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