Nicolae Ceausescu was born in Scornicesti, Romania on January 26, 1918. Ceausescu was a Romanian communist Politian and general secretary of the Romanian communist party from 1965 to 1989. He was also Romania’s second and last communist leader and head of state from 1967 to 1989. Nicolae went to school until the age of 11 and ran away from home because his father was abusive and an alcoholic. He then lived with his sister until he became an apprentice shoemaker. He worked for Alexandru Sandulescu who was in an illegal Communist Party. Soon Sandulescu’s influence moved Nicolae to also join the Communist party. When Nicolae turned 18 he was named “a dangerous communist agitator” and “distributor of communist and antifascist propaganda …show more content…
On March 19, 1965, Dej died and he didn’t have a successor so naturally Nicolae took his place. Three days after Dej’s death Ceausescu became general secretary. The first thing Nicolae did as secretary was change the name “Romanian Workers Party” back to “Communist Party of Romania.” He also made the country a socialistic republic again not a people’s republic. In 1967 he wanted to become head of state and he did. Because of his “Independent foreign policy,” he became popular in Romania. Nicolae’s main goal was to make Romania a “World Power.” On October 1966, he banned abortion and made it a major concern throughout Romanian laws. This was also known as “the 1966 decree”. His point for doing this was to have more children to increase their …show more content…
They were buried in Ghencea Cemetery facing each other from opposite sides of a path. In 2007, their son tried for an appeal to see if the graves were genuine. After they were killed the rate of deaths in hospitals decreased to 1,000 in the country and kept decreasing. Soon after their deaths the abolition of the capital punishment started on January 7th,
Furthermore, in 1940 when the Germans and Hungarians took over Romania, Anna’s life began to change. The Seelfreund family was now subjected to the Hungarian government. In the first year once respected Jews were now treated with humiliation. In 1942, all the young men, including Anna’s father were sent to Hungarian Labor Service. Only the old people, the women and children were left. According to Anna after receiving only one letter from her father, he was never heard of again.
During the Communist Party, if people were to resist and speak up about any grievance that they had, they would be incarcerated and possibly executed. In her memoir, Kovály stated “By 1951, the atmosphere in Prague was almost as bad as it had been during the war. No one dared to speak out loud, and hardly a week passed without news of someone’s arrest” (101). This statement further explains how constantly were people arrested, and how people were so fearful that they were afraid to express themselves about anything publicly. In order to stay out of danger, “People no longer aspired toward things but away from them. All they wanted was to avoid trouble. They tried not to be seen anywhere, not to talk to anyone, not to attract any attention” (Margolius-Kovály 126). This statement also shows how people were living their lives at this point and how the inability to freely express themselves impaired the way that they interacted with others. The amount of fear that people had during the communist regime in Czechoslovakia discouraged them from resisting, especially since they could potentially be affected -- or in other words arrested and
There was other evidence than the forensics that matched Sacco’s gun to the bullets found in the two victims. Upon their arrest protests broke out worldwide based on their innocence. The two men were executed due to an unfair trial.
Vladek learned many skills before the Holocaust that guided him throughout his life during the Holocaust. Vladek knew that he could use his skills to help him survive. First, Vladek taught English which resulted in not only survival, but Vladek also acquired clothing of his choice which almost no other person in his concentration had the privilege to do. After teaching English, Vladek found an occupation as a shoe repairman in the concentration camps. Vladek’s wife, Anja, was greatly mistreated by a female Nazi general, and Anja noticed that the general’s shoes were torn. Anja informed the general that her husband could repair her shoes, and after Vladek fixed the general’s shoes, the general was nice to Anja and brought her extra food.
The short story, “Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt”, explicates the life of a man named Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka. We see him briefly in his young years, followed by his life in the army, and his return to the farm where his strong characterized aunt resides. We can see immediately that this man lives in constant cleanliness and dutiful paranoia; these are some of his desires that he wishes to exhibit to others. We can also see his fears, which reside in the confiscation of his masculinity and independence. This short story has many elements that resemble others in the Nikolai Gogol collection.
On the other side of the Iron Curtain, Slavenka Drakulic was born in the former Yugoslavia, now Croatia, and was the daughter of a Communist party member. As a girl, she was privileged: she received a great education and had opportunities that other girls of her backgrou...
Levitt and Dubner focus on this correlation in chapter four of Freakonomics. Beginning with Nicolae Ceausescu, the leader of Romania, who made abortion illegal, they identify the ramifications of Ceausescu’s actions that eventually lead to his losing control of Romania. The generation of children who would have been aborted grew up miserable, poor, and less successful than children before them. The opposite is essentially what happened in the United States. Instead of an abortion ban leading to more crime (as in Romania), the legalization of abortion led to a drop in crime. A strong economy, increased gun laws, and the threat of capital punishment were all cited as causes for this sudden decrease in crime, but the authors of the book assert that it was because of abortion becoming legal in Roe v. Wade in 1973. The type of woman to typically have an abortion is unmarried, poor, or a teenager. If the child was born, he would most likely turn to crime at some point in his life as one consequence of his
In Rasputin’s early days he had very little education, Rasputin left school at the age of eight and was unable to read and write. Grigori Rasputin found himself at the Verkhoturye...
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With humble beginnings, as Vladimir himself put it in his autobiography, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was born October 7th, 1952, within St. Petersburg, Russia. Raised by his mother Maria, who was a factory worker, and his father Vladimir, who was a conscript. Putin was dead set on joining the KGB, the Committee for State Security. In his autobiography he says he was “a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.” But he also says that most of this “notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories” In short, he never knew what he was getting into. To follow...
The women’s movement had been characterized by women's wish to acquire equal legal status to men by obtaining civil and political rights recorded in the Constitution and legislation. In Romania, the first wave of the feminist movement had been held simultaneously with the women’s movement in West, and it had been a movement of the elite, educated women with access to international information. An important period of this movement was before the establishment of the Romanian Constitution in 1923. It was the most democratic Constitution and women started an intense activity of lobbying for their rights until 1947. Between 1947 and 1989 Romania was pushed under Soviet influence by the Red Curtain, and the feminist activity was eradicated. Although Communism proclaimed gender equality between men and women, this had been acted contradictorily in public sphere and private life. Freedom has been detracted by the Communist Party, and women’s private lives had been controlled by the Party by limiting their legal rights. After the Romanian Revolution in 1989, it was taken a modest initiative on the situation of gender equality and women’s rights in Romanian society. Since 1989 until the present, Romanian women’s roles and rights in society is becoming a priority in Romania. In addition, the promotion of equal opportunities for women and men is also a priority in the democracy, and under Western influence and European legislation. This essay will attempt to outline the difficulties representing the causes of the women’s movement and some of the effects of social, economic and political rights.
Have you ever wondered how social conformity can affect someone’s life? Social conformity is an influence in which somebody will change their beliefs or lifestyle to fit in with a certain group. In The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Ivan lived a life which conformed to the social norms instead of living a life in which he enjoyed. Ivan who is the main character in the novella becomes very sick and soon realizes that his whole life has been miserable because of social conformity. In this essay I will be discussing three times where Ivan puts himself into unhealthy situations, because of social conformity.
Countless thousands of children still languish today in orphanages, in squalid conditions, and another 10,000 wander the streets of Romanian cities, homeless.” Children are without parental or guardian supervision, they do not have houses to go home to because their parents did not want them, which would not be a problem if the women in Romania were given the option to have an abortion “About 2,500 Romanian kids are HIV positive, more than the combined total of all Western Europe. And dozens of pedophiles from Western Europe travel regularly to Romania because of its reputation as a country where children are desperate and vulnerable.”