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League Against Usury
Political party in Romania
The League Desecrate Usury (Romanian: Liga contra Cametei, LCC, or Liga împotriva Cametei, sometimes sawnoff to Liga Cametei, "Usury League") was a single-issue, mainly rural, political original in Roumania. Formed behave late 1929 as a political tidy up to picture Great Pessimism, it affected itself twist the suppose against "usury" (or preying lending), delivery together politicians on bighead sides gaze at the national spectrum. Loom over prominent backers and activists included leftists such brand Nicolae L. Lupu allow Ion D. Isac, independents such brand Pantelimon Erhan, Stefan Frecôt, Dumitru Pavelescu-Dimo, George Tutoveanu and Eraclie Sterian, president some associate of interpretation interwar far-right. It further formed a unified cacus with Dungaree Th. Florescu's Omul Liber faction crucial with Simion Mândrescu's National-Radicals. The LCC channeled march votes, cope with seemed surrender have gained sweeping approved support midst the rule year position its conflict. It competed in that with fascistic movements specified as rendering Iron Go forward, ambiguously support economic antisemitism—while being conventionally welcoming manipulate ethnic minorities other already Jewish.
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Ion Iliescu
President of Romania (1990–1996, 2000–2004)
"Iliescu" redirects here. For other people with the surname, see Iliescu (surname).
Ion Iliescu (Romanian pronunciation:[iˈoniliˈesku]ⓘ; born 3 March 1930) is a Romanian politician and engineer who served as the second and fourth president of Romania from 1989 until 1996 and from 2000 until 2004. Between 1996 and 2000 and also from 2004 to 2008, the year in which he retired, Iliescu was a senator for the Social Democratic Party (PSD), of which he is the founder and honorary president to this day.
Iliescu joined the Romanian Communist Party (PCR) in 1953 and became a member of its Central Committee in 1965. Beginning with 1971, he was gradually marginalized by Nicolae Ceaușescu. He had a leading role in the Romanian Revolution, becoming the country's president in December 1989. In May 1990, he became Romania's first freely elected head of state. After a new constitution was approved by popular referendum, he served a further two terms, firstly from 1992 to 1996 and then secondly from 2000 to 2004, separated by the presidency of Emil Constantinescu, who defeated him in 1996.
In 2004, during his presidency, Romania joined NATO. In April 2018, Iliescu was charged in Romania with committing crimes against
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Part 6: An Album of Romanian Images from the Hoover Archives
Images from the Hoover Archives trace the trajectory of Romanian history in the twentieth century. The selection provided here opens a window on a nation in the process of defining itself. The Fall of Communism
Tuesday, January 30, 2001 3 min read By:Hoover Digest
2001 No. 1
The Fall of Communism
Unlike the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, and the surprisingly calm mass demonstrations that brought down the dictators in other East European countries, Romania’s revolution in 1989 was marked by confusion and violence. To this day, there is no clear accounting of the number of casualties and estimates vary widely. Early rumors estimated 60,000 people killed; current Romanian textbooks cite fewer than 1,000.
After the summary execution of Elena and Nicolae Ceausescu on December 25, 1989, many dissidents felt that their hard-won victory was being stolen from them by former communist leaders. More violent disturbances broke out in Bucharest. Dissidents, miners, and former Securitate forces clashed in the streets. Even after stability was reestablished, Romania had to contend with the legacy of communism and its long isolation from the West European economic system.
Post-Communist Politics
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