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votes were suppressed by the Communists, who
were supported by the Russian military.”
”Romania will never really turn Communist”,
continued my informant. Eighty-five percent of
the population are land owning peasants as a
result of an agrarian reform put into effect after the
First World War and extended since, Peasants who
own their own land never become good
Communists.”
And what were the results of this imposed
regime ? Look at Constanza, the port on the Black
Sea. There the Russians have taken possession of
whole parts of the town for their officials and their
families. Look at the raids and the arrests, without
due process, which have taken place during the
last year and which have forced many members of
the Liberal and Social Democratic Parties to go
underground. Those who have been caught have
been put into camps either here or in Russia, The
conditions in the camps here are fully comparable
with those in the German concentration camps. All
those who are not Communists are considered
Fascists. I can mention the name of a high Romanian
officer and his aide-de-camp who were both
suddenly carried off some time ago, and yet during the
war they had been fighting against Germany.”
It was then that I heard for the first time the
name of Anna Pauker, the woman trained in
Moscow who was the leading power in the Romanian
Communist party, ”Red Anna”, destined to become
Romania’s Foreign Minister. It is she,” continued
my informant, ”’who gives-orders to the politruks,*
1) Political commissars in the Russian army. Translator.
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