Repression of communists in the Kingdom of Romania

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Communist movement in the Kingdom of Romania
Organizations Romanian Communist Party Amicii URSS Scînteia
Leaders Gheorghe Cristescu Elek Köblös Vitali Holostenco Boris Stefanov Ștefan Foriș Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
Repression Repression of communists List of imprisoned communists 1921 Dealul Spirii Trial 1924 Mârzescu Law 1936 Craiova Trial
Strikes Tatarbunary Uprising Grivița strike of 1933 Anti-fascist resistance
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The Repression of communists in the Kingdom of Romania was political repression against people who held communist views in the Kingdom of Romania between 1921 and 1944. In 1921, a number of 271 members of the Socialist-Communist Party who voted for the affiliation of the party into the Third International were arrested and the following year they were tried and convicted by a military court to various terms of forced labour.^[1]

The 1924 Mârzescu Law banned the Romanian Communist Party and provided the death penalty for communist agitators, forcing the party to go underground for the following decades. Members of the Communist Party were routinely arrested by the police and Siguranța, the secret police. During this period, most leaders of the Communist Party were either in exile in the Soviet Union (the Moscow wing) or in prison (known as the prison wing).