14 Facts About Ion Vincze

Ion Vincze was ordered by the party to procure false identity cards for members of the Communist Party who were to remain in Romania clandestinely.

Ion Vincze recruited and instructed new members of the communist movement.

Ion Vincze received and spread communist propaganda materials and gave instructions regarding the organisation of a Communist Youth of Romania.

Ion Vincze refused to declare to us his place of residence, which indicates that in that place there was to be found an important stock of materials, instructions, and names of important persons who form part of the leadership of the Communist Movement.

Ion Vincze was held in Caransebes Prison, while his lover Craciun was serving time in Vacaresti Prison.

Ion Vincze was elected to the Assembly of Deputies in the 1946 election for the Arad electoral district, as a representative of the PCR-led Bloc of Democratic Parties, and served there until 1948.

Ion Vincze was appointed Romania's Ambassador to the People's Republic of Hungary, at a time when the Hungarian communist politician Laszlo Rajk was being purged by his rival Matyas Rakosi.

Ion Vincze returned to Romania soon after, and was Minister of Food Industry from November 23,1949 to December 15,1950.

Ion Vincze was elected as a deputy to the Great National Assembly for the Timisoara-Nord seat in Timisoara Region, and served in that body from 1952 to 1957.

In late May 1952, when Luca's fall from power signaled his group's defeat by Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and his partisans, Vincze was noted for abruptly ending his association with Pauker.

Ion Vincze became deputy minister at the Ministry of Internal Affairs after May 28,1952, under Premiers Groza and Gheorghiu-Dej.

Ion Vincze was vice-president of the Party Control Commission between December 28,1955 and July 24,1965.

Alongside Gheorghe Apostol, Constantin Pirvulescu, Moghioros and Borila, Vincze was Gheorghiu-Dej's emissary during renewed discussions with Pauker, when they attempted to make her admit that she was guilty of "deviationism".

In 1968, when the new leadership around Nicolae Ceausescu offered concessions to ethnic Hungarian intellectuals, it created a Council of Working People of Magyar Nationality, of which Vincze was named vice-president.