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  2. Socialist Republic of Romania - Wikipedia

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    However, during the 1950s, Romania's communist government began to assert more independence, leading to, for example, the withdrawal of all Soviet troops from Romania by 1958. [9] Overall, from the 1950s to the 1970s, the country exhibited high rates of economic growth and significant improvements in infant mortality, life expectancy, literacy ...

  3. History of Romania - Wikipedia

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    The Romanian state was formed in 1859 through a personal union of the Danubian Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. The new state, officially named Romania since 1866, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. During World War I, after declaring its neutrality in 1914, Romania fought together with the Allied Powers from 1916.

  4. Romanian Communist Party - Wikipedia

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    The Romanian Communist Party (Romanian: Partidul Comunist Român [parˈtidul komuˈnist roˈmɨn]; PCR) was a communist party in Romania.The successor to the pro-Bolshevik wing of the Socialist Party of Romania, it gave an ideological endorsement to a communist revolution that would replace the social system of the Kingdom of Romania.

  5. Timeline of Romanian history - Wikipedia

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    ARO IMS become the first car built in Romania after World War II. Over the next three decades ARO will be a landmark of Romania. 1958: The Soviet Union Army leave Romania after fourteen years of occupation; 1959: On July 28, the Ioanid Gang carries out the most famous bank robbery ever to occur in a Communist state; 1960

  6. De-satellization of the Socialist Republic of Romania - Wikipedia

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    In 1973, Romania became the first Warsaw Pact country to conduct most of its trade with non-Communist countries. [ 25 ] In 1967, Comecon adopted the "interested party principle", under which any country could opt out of any project it chose while still allowing the other member states to use Comecon mechanisms to coordinate their activities.

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  8. Romania - Wikipedia

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    After a brief power struggle, Nicolae Ceaușescu emerged as the head of the communist party, [105] becoming General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party in 1965, President of the State Council in 1967, and President of the Socialist Republic of Romania in 1974. Ceaușescu's long rule, spanning several decades, grew increasingly ...

  9. National communism in Romania - Wikipedia

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    In this context, the ideological change in the Romanian society after the Communists came to power in Romania appeared more radical. [3] In the space of a few years, the history of Romania had been rewritten: while the pre-war history had been written from a nationalist point of view, the new history was written in an internationalist spirit. [4]