Protocol No. 58 of the Meeting of the Politburo of the CC of the RWP: Measures to Ensure Order in Romania Given the Events in HungarySubject: On certain measures able to secure order in the country30 Oct 1956 |
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This protocol of a meeting of the Politburo of the Romanian Workers' Party examines security measures for Romania in the light of the events in Hungary. Among the problems discussed are the intensification of political activity in the ranks of the working class and the protection of central institutions in the main cities in Romania. The defense of the Hungarian border is also brought up on the decision list. Steps are to be taken regarding the events at the Timisoara Polytechnic School, where students protested against the Soviet invasion in Hungary. Collection: Romania and the W'Pact
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Document Type:
Memorandum of Conversation Origin (Agency): CC of RWP Sender: Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, First Secretary of the Romanian Workers' Party Language of Original Document: Romanian Translators: Delia Razdolescu Number of Pages: 3 Cold War Period: 1950s |
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Document Source: National Central Historical Archives (ANIC), Bucharest Call Number: Fund CC of the RCP - Chancellery, File No. 124/1956, pp.1-5 First Published at: Mihai Lungu and Mihai Retegan (eds.), 1956. Explozia, Perceptii române, iugoslave si sovietice asupra evenimentelor din Polonia si Ungaria [1956. The Explosion. Romanian, Yugoslav and Soviet Perceptions of the Events in Poland and Hungary] (Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, 1996), pp. 143-5. |