1. Miron Constantinescu was a Romanian communist politician, a leading member of the Romanian Communist Party, as well as a Marxist sociologist, historian, academic, and journalist.
15 Facts About Miron Constantinescu
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Widely believed to be an illegitimate son of the geologist Gheorghe Munteanu-Murgoci, Miron Constantinescu retreated to a Romanian Orthodox monastery a short while after receiving his bachelor's degree.
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Miron Constantinescu was among the few intellectuals at the forefront of party activities.
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Miron Constantinescu was arrested there in January 1941, after a local communist was captured while distributing anti-fascist flyers.
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Consequently, the administration separated Communist prisoners into two groups: Miron Constantinescu's was sent to Lugoj prison.
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An editor in chief of the PCR's Scinteia after the start of Soviet occupation, Miron Constantinescu led the panel of journalists towards Stalinist guidelines, and encouraged a personality cult around Gheorghiu-Dej, whose biography he helped falsify.
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Miron Constantinescu was himself praised in the PCR press, and papers circulated the notion that he worked as much as 14 or 16 hours a day as a rule.
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In 1956, together with the pro-Soviet Iosif Chisinevschi, Miron Constantinescu observed the increasingly hostile relations between Nikita Khrushchev and Gheorghiu-Dej, and ultimately decided to attack the latter in public.
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Miron Constantinescu was purged by the Party Plenum in June 1957; he was marginalized, but kept his freedom and was allowed to work as a lector for the Pedagogic Institute, and later as a researcher for the Romanian Academy's Institute for Economics and the Nicolae Iorga Institute of History in Bucharest.
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Miron Constantinescu was consequently reinstated to the top echelon, and served as Minister of Education for a short period, as well as being elected a member of the Central Committee Secretariat and deputy member of the Executive Political Committee.
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Miron Constantinescu later became President of Academy of Social and Political Sciences, Rector of Stefan Gheorghiu Academy.
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Miron Constantinescu was elected vice-president of the State Council in November 1972, a position he will hold concurrently with the office of president of the Great National Assembly, succeeding Stefan Voitec from 28 March until his death on 18 July.
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Miron Constantinescu's daughter was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and interned at a sanatorium in Campina.
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Under the name Constant Mironescu, Constantinescu appears in the semi-autobiographical novel Luntrea lui Caron, written by Lucian Blaga years after he was reinstated by Gheorghiu-Dej.
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Miron Constantinescu's stay in Caransebes prison and the subsequent investigation became a theme of official PCR propaganda; the 1981 film Convoiul, directed by Mircea Muresan and starring Ion Besoiu, Emil Hossu, and Costel Constantin, was a romanticized depiction of the events.