V. PEOPLE'S DEMOCRACY
A country of many social inequalities, Romania represented a favourable
ground for spreading a radical ideology which promised to remove
class differences and bring in a golden age.
At the national conference of October 1945 the party adopted an
ambitious programme for modernizing which foresaw, among other things,
the intensive development of the heavy industry, the extension of
the agrarian reform and encouragement to set up co-operatives.
On 30th December 1947, Petru Groza and Gheorghiu-Dej asked the
king to receive them in audience and, under the threat of Soviet
troops, politely asked him to abdicate.
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