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Understanding Communist Romania: A Historical Quiz

Test your knowledge about Communist Romania's history, government, currency, and culture with this engaging quiz.

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1 The "Muscovites", notably ________ and Vasile Luca, had spent the war in Moscow.

2 What type of government does Communist Romania have?

3 What is the currency of Communist Romania?

4 What era did Communist Romania belong to?

5 What is the legislature of Communist Romania called?

6 Where does Communist Romania come from?

7 What is the national anthem of Communist Romania?

8 What is the calling code of Communist Romania?

9 What time offset in UTC is Communist Romania in during daylight savings?

10 What is the native name for Communist Romania?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Jiu Valley miners' strike of 1977 was the largest protest movement against the Communist regime in Romania before the Romanian Revolution of 1989.
  • the Romanian politician Constantin Argetoianu, who organized repression of the Communist Party and announced the group's effective termination in 1922, spent his final years as a political prisoner of the Communist regime.
  • the Romanian poet Anatol E. Baconsky, who debuted as a socialist realist, came to depict the communist regime as an "anti-utopia" shortly before dying in the 1977 earthquake.
  • the Union Monument (pictured) in Romania was unveiled in 1927, demolished in 1947 by the Communists, and rebuilt in 1999.
  • the conflict between Communist Romanian leader Nicolae Ceauşescu and his ideological rival Petre Borilă worsened after Ceauşescu's son Valentin decided to marry Borilă's daughter.
  • writer Paul Georgescu helped enforce Socialist Realism in Communist Romania while concealing his sympathy for Trotskyism.
  • the works of Romanian sociologist and novelist Dan Lungu refer to concealed communist-era phenomena, such as the working class practice of stealing state property.
  • the free trade union SLOMR, established in opposition to the communist Romanian government, was suppressed one year before the creation of Solidarity, its more successful Polish counterpart .
  • the Romanian artist Ion Valentin Anestin was censored and ultimately arrested by the Communist regime for publishing caricatures of Joseph Stalin during World War II.
  • poet and philanthropist Constant Tonegaru was imprisoned by Romania's regime when one of his aid parcels was redirected toward anti-communist fighters.
  • Romanian violinist Ion Petre Stoican got his recording contract in Communist-era Romania because he caught an American spy.
  • Romanian leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej accused Miron Constantinescu of being a Stalinist only a few years after sidelining him for supporting de-Stalinization.
  • Communist Romania's first Finance Minister, Vasile Luca, arrested in 1952 for having opposed the devaluation of the Romanian leu, was rehabilitated five years after his death in prison.
  • Emil Calmanovici, the main financial backer of the Romanian Communist Party in the 1940s, was later imprisoned by Communist authorities and died as a result of force-feeding.
  • Iordan Chimet, who opposed the Communist regime in Romania and authored fairy tales with subversive messages, was also one of the first professional copywriters in his country.
  • despite being a Soviet citizen and a confirmed NKVD agent, Alexandru Nicolschi served as head of Communist Romania's secret police.
  • The Reenactment, a 1968 film by Romanian director Lucian Pintilie, was banned by the communist regime because it showed the authorities engaged in tormenting young delinquents.
  • Vin americanii! ("The Americans are coming!") was a slogan used by Romanians in the 1940s and '50s to express their hope that a US intervention would topple the Communist regime.
  • Communist Romania's Foreign Minister, Grigore Preoteasa, was killed in an aircraft accident after refusing to wear a seat belt during landing.
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