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Birth rates especially rose during the years of 1967, 1968 and 1969. [3] By 1977, people were taxed for being childless. [1] Children born in these years are popularly known as decreței, from the diminutive of the Romanian language word "decret", meaning "decree". This increase in the number of births resulted in many children being abandoned ...
The Romanian rural systematization program was a social engineering program undertaken by Nicolae Ceaușescu's Romania primarily at the end of the 1980s. The legal framework for this program was established as early as 1974, but it only began in earnest in March 1988, after the Romanian authorities renounced most favoured nation status and the American human rights scrutiny which came with it.
A 1974 stamp commemorating the 30th anniversary of Romania's "Liberation from Fascism" Liberation Day, officially known as the Liberation from Fascist Occupation Day (Romanian: Ziua eliberării de ocupația fascistă) was observed on 23 August in Communist Romania to celebrate the 1944 Romanian coup d'état, the event that caused Romania to leave the Axis in World War II and marked the ...
A new constitution is ratified on April 13. Two months later, on June 11 all banks and major enterprises are nationalized. During the year, also in the years to come, many pre-war politicians, businessmen, priests and even ordinary people are thrown in prisons. On August 30, following the model of Soviet NKVD, the Romanian secret police is ...
The early years of communist rule in Romania were marked by repeated changes of course and by numerous arrests and imprisonments as factions contended for dominance. The country's resources were also drained by the Soviet's SovRom agreements, which facilitated shipping of Romanian goods to the Soviet Union at nominal prices.
Decree 770 was a decree of the communist government of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, signed in 1967.It restricted abortion and contraception, and was intended to create a new and large Romanian population.
Hollywood was once the ultimate goal for many working in the film industry. But between strikes, scandals, and sinister secrets being revealed, Tinseltown seems to be losing some of its sparkle.
Romania opposed the use of its territory by foreign forces, [28] and with Bulgaria was one of the two Warsaw Pact members not to allow the stationing of foreign troops on its soil, Soviet or otherwise. [29] [30] Although Romania did participate in joint Warsaw Pact air and naval exercises, it did not allow such exercises on its own territory. [31]