Ana Pauker's Romanian legacy (How Ion Pacepa got the shaft from Romania's "former" Communists)

Washington Times ^ | January 11, | Arnaud de Borchgrave

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Ana Pauker's Romanian legacy

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

UPI Editor at Large Washington, DC, Jan. 11 (UPI)

Personally trained by Stalin, Ana Pauker, Romania's Communist tyrant, had earned her spurs the only way the Soviet tyrant trusted. She denounced her own Communist husband, who was shipped to Siberia to die in the gulag. This was Pauker's ticket to ride a Soviet tank into "liberated" Bucharest in 1944, where she replaced the recently departed Nazi Gauleiter for Romania. The personification of Communist evil, Pauker got her just desserts shortly before Stalin's death in 1953. After supervising the rigged "purge" trials of thousands of Romanians during the forced collectivization and victimization of innocent peasants, and sending intellectuals and politicians to die in prison, Pauker herself was accused of "deviationism" and put on trial. She promptly recanted and was only demoted, then retired and allowed to die in her own bed. But Pauker gave Romania its ghostly Orwellian tincture that endured for 15 years after the end of the Cold War.

Romania managed to doubletalk its way into NATO and into EU's greenroom while still in the occult clutches of unreconstructed apparatchiks in the Securitate -- Romania's KGB. Exhibit A was the case of Ion Mihai Pacepa, arguably the Cold War's most important defector from Communism, who came in from the cold in 1978 while head of the Romanian equivalent of the CIA and the FBI...

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WHAT A STORY!!! Click the link to the original article of you want to read the whole thing.

The fact that Gen. Pacepa was still a target of Romania's version of the KGB ten years after the "death" of Communism should give us all pause to think, and think hard. Could it be that the recently restored his "rank and priviledges" in the hopes of luring him back to Romania? I hope Gen. Pacepa will indulge our collective curiosity and write about his continuing ordeal someday.

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Fascinating article. Hope you guys will take the time to read it. Ping!!!

koba, when I first read this I immediately thought of your disparaging remarks re: Pacepa's criticisms of Putin.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Another great story, TTS. I remember when Romania was supposed to be a "good" Communist country. Its Olympic team received tumultuous applause in Los Angeles in 1984 when it bucked the Warsaw Pact boycott. All window dressing, of course.

And of course, Pacepa is the man who more than anyone else exposed the late unlamented Rachman 'al-Qudwa ("Yasser Arafat," y'sh"v) to the world for the scumbag he was.

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Interesting. But doesn't this article fit more to what your beloved Golytsin says about discreditors, etc., trying to drive a wedge between the US and its allies - Romania, now an ally, being discredited by this journalist. BTW, amazingly silent on what Pacepa did under Ceaucescu - his opponents crimes published freely, but silence on Pacepa's. Oh, I get it, he was just a regular guy who oppressed nobody while in control of the organization in charge of oppression - and just how was it that he had 3 million dollars worth of paintings and other artifacts under the communism, but the coalition partner of the current president is disparaged for being rich under communism as well...

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"BTW, amazingly silent on what Pacepa did under Ceaucescu - his opponents crimes published freely, but silence on Pacepa's."

No need to...Pacapa wrote an entire book and numerous articles about what he did as head of the DIE.

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"Another great story, TTS. I remember when Romania was supposed to be a "good" Communist country. Its Olympic team received tumultuous applause in Los Angeles in 1984 when it bucked the Warsaw Pact boycott. All window dressing, of course."

Thanks ZC. Don't foget that President Carter publicly hailed Ceausescu as a “great national and international leader” who had “taken on a role of leadership in the entire international community.” What a slimeball.

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[PhilDragoo]

Who to believe?

Jimmy Carter and Nicolae Ceausescu, or Arnaud de Borchgrave and Ion Mihai Pacepa?

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As Romanian born, I was so amused by Pacepa defection and his pretenses of being a victim. I have no respect for the man, he was just another ghoul in Ceausescu's service and his famous Securitate (Romanian version of KGB) and just like the rat he is, once he started to feel the boat sinking, he abandoned it. Fortunately for him he was a great source of information for the CIA and the NSA but to the day I am disappointed about the fact that he was also embraced by GOB big shots. The man is responsible for many being arrested, persecuted, beaten, imprisoned and killed and he should be held responsible for it.