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Iaşi, p.35; Marea c<strong>on</strong>flagraţie, p.122.<br />

România în război, p.313 ff; Istoria militară, pp.361, 367, 374.<br />

Garda de Fier, passim; C<strong>on</strong>tribuţii, p.23 ff., 69 ff.; Iaşi, p.73, 75, 89; Marea c<strong>on</strong>flagraţie, passim.<br />

România în război, p.315.<br />

Iaşi, pp.20, 24 ff; see also p.39, passim.<br />

Iaşi, p.20. “In order to fully comprehend what <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> salvati<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> a massive (some 350,000) populati<strong>on</strong><br />

from an apparently ineluctable destructi<strong>on</strong> really meant, <strong>on</strong>e must take into c<strong>on</strong>siderati<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> c<strong>on</strong>text <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />

<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> timers and <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Hitlerite’s exterminatory obsessi<strong>on</strong>s.”<br />

C<strong>on</strong>tribuţii, p.16.<br />

România în război, 295-306; citati<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> p.297.<br />

Mihai Fătu, Mircea Muşat (coord), Teroarea horthysto-fascistă în nord-vestul României (septembrie<br />

1940-octombrie 1944), Editura politică, Bucharest, 1985 şi Horthyst-Fascist Terror in Northwestern<br />

Romania. September 1940-October 1944, (Meridiane Publishing House, Bucharest), 1986.<br />

Remarkable am<strong>on</strong>g <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>m is <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> popularized history journal “Magazin istoric,” launched in 1967 with<br />

support from <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Institute for Historical and Social and Historical Studies affiliated to <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> PCR’s Central<br />

Committee. This institute replaced <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> former Institute <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> [Communist] Party History.<br />

See, for example, “Remember. 40 de ani de la masacrarea evreilor din Ardealul de Nord sub<br />

ocupaţia horthystă,” (Federaţia Comunităţilor evreieşti din România, Bucharest), 1985.<br />

For example, Oliver Lustig, Jurnal însângerat, Editura Militară, Bucharest, 1987, translated into<br />

English as Blood-Bespotted Diary, (Editura Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică, Bucharest), 1988.<br />

As <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> June 1986, Moses Rosen received permissi<strong>on</strong> to commemorate <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Iaşi pogrom within <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />

Federati<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> Romanian Jewish Communities (FCER). However, informati<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> commemorati<strong>on</strong>s<br />

would be allowed to appear in print <strong>on</strong>ly in <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> FCER publicati<strong>on</strong> Revista cultului mozaic, whose<br />

distributi<strong>on</strong> in Romania itself was very small, but which benefited from a large distributi<strong>on</strong> abroad. The<br />

publicati<strong>on</strong> had English and Hebrew summaries, thus managing to create outside Romania a<br />

cosmeticized image <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> how <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Holocaust was being treated under Ceausescu’s regime. Oliver Lusig<br />

managed to slip into an article published in 1986 <strong>on</strong>e <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> rare references to Ant<strong>on</strong>escu’s resp<strong>on</strong>sibility<br />

for “<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> death <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> between 70,000-80,000 Jews in Transnistria,”but <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> article in which he did that could<br />

easily be c<strong>on</strong>sidered as bel<strong>on</strong>ging to <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> category <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> selective negati<strong>on</strong>ism. See “Excepţie?… Da, a fost o<br />

excepţie,” România literară, 7.11.1986.<br />

Compare Nicolae Ceauşescu, Istoria poporului român. Texte selectate, Editura militară, Bucharest,<br />

1988, pp. 337-608; Împotriva fascismului. Sesiunea ştiinţifică privind analiza critică şi demascarea<br />

fascismului în România, Bucharest, March 4-5, 1971, Editura politică, Bucharest, 1971; Comitetul<br />

antifascist român, Editura politică, Bucharest, 1985 etc.<br />

Vlad Georgescu, “Politics, History and Nati<strong>on</strong>alism: The Origins <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> Romania’s Socialist Pers<strong>on</strong>ality<br />

Cult,” in Joseph Held (ed.), The Cult <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> Power. Dictatorship in <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Twentieth Century, East European<br />

M<strong>on</strong>ographs, Boulder, 1983, pp. 129-142; Michael Shafir, Romania: Politics, Ec<strong>on</strong>omics and Society.<br />

Political Stagnati<strong>on</strong> and Simulated Change, Frances Pinter, L<strong>on</strong>d<strong>on</strong>, 1985.<br />

For example, see C<strong>on</strong>tribuţii, p.15 ff.<br />

Michael Shafir, “The Men <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Archangel Revisited: Antisemitic Formati<strong>on</strong>s am<strong>on</strong>g Communist<br />

Romania’s Intellectuals,” Studies in Comparative Communism, vol.XVI, no.3, Fall 1983, pp.223-243.<br />

B. Wasserstein, op.cit., p.163.<br />

Dennis Deletant, Ceauşescu şi Securitatea. C<strong>on</strong>strângere şi disidenţă în România anilor 1965-1989,<br />

Humanitas, Bucharest, pp.200-205.<br />

Victor Eskenasy, loc.cit., p.187, 191.<br />

Ibid., passim.

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