National Communism in Romania

National Communism in Romania was the state ideology of Communist Romania between the early 1960s and 1989. Having its origins in Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej's political emancipation from the Soviet Union, it was greatly developed by Nicolae Ceaușescu, who began in 1971, through his July Theses manifesto, a national cultural revolution. Part of the national mythology was the Nicolae Ceaușescu's cult of personality and the idealization of Romania's history, known in Romanian historiography as .

This nationalistic ideology was based on a mixture of Marxist–Leninist dogmas and doctrines of interwar far-right nationalism. The main argument of the tenet was the endless and unanimous fighting throughout two thousand years to achieve unity and independence.

Before World War II, the historical ideology was based on Romanian nationalism and the main dispute in Romanian society was between people who promoted indigenous traditions and those who wanted a Western values-based society. Marxists played only a minor role in Romanian culture and the Romanian Left was typically of rural traditional pre-capitalist persuasion, rather than to support a post-capitalist workers' state as elsewhere in Europe. In this context, the ideological change in the Romanian society after the Communists came to power in Romania appeared more radical.

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. For instance, in Mihail Roller's "History of Romania", the 1859 union between Wallachia and Moldavia was seen as the will of the bourgeois and boyars, who benefited from it, the decision being taken without the consideration of the will of the people. The Union of Bessarabia with Romania was seen as being an "imperialist intervention against the Socialist Revolution in Russia" and the Union of Transylvania with Romania was considered an occupation.

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