ARHIVELE OLTENIEI - Universitatea din Craiova

100Cezar AvramAfter being dissolved, the TOZs were also given arable land that wassubject to the decree 83/1949. A small part of the arable land surfaceexpropriated in March 1945, was given the peasants “to be used forever” bythose, but this apportionment did not last long due to the process ofcollectivization that developed threateningly.The first phase of the nationalization of the land, a process that began in1945, was completed through the decree 83/1949. The agrarian policy ofCommunist Party was about to be completed, the decree 83/1949 being the foreplayof the collectivization process. If the participation of local authorities – the popularcouncil, the GAC, the party organization, the PRM instructor, the local militia, theregional security department – was proved by the large number of abusive seizure,the violence of the process was shown by “the night of the landowners” of 3-4March 1949 and “the night of the deported” of 17-18 June 1951.The party could not conceive the collectivization process withouteliminating the economic basis of the landowners. Then, noticing that theresistance was even stronger, the authorities began to “eliminate” othercategories of rebels, too. HCM 326/1951 continued by tough trend adopted bythe Romanian Stalinists. The action carried out on the nights of 2-3 March 1949and 17-18 June 1951 had two goals: to transfer private property to the state forthe socialist plan of agriculture and move the landowners and other peoplecapable of influencing the community away from the rural areas.The fact that the party and totalitarian state leaders gathered importantnumbers of activists and workers to collaborate with the militia during the twonights, proved the great political importance of these actions. When the Securityreports were centralized in Craiova, the massive mobilization was accounted forby the state of mind of the peasants. There is a certain resemblance between thedecree 83/1949 and the HCM 326/1951m in terms of their goal and the realizedeffect. However, the HCM 326/1951 was not addressed to a certain social class,which is the case with the decree 83/1949. Once it was put into practice, TheHCM 326/1951 affected agricultural workers – Popa Dumitru from Baia deArama, Vinju Mare, together with his 4family numbers: Mazilu Gheorghe fromIzvoarele Anestilor, Mehedinti, 3 family members; Dragomiroiu Ion fromVinatori, Cujmir, 3 family members; Iovan Dumitru from Gornia, Vinju mare, 5family members; Udrescu D. Ioan from Vinju Mare, and so on; wine growers –Gogan Victor Constantin from Turnu Severin, 3 family members; shepherds –Ivanescu Vasile from Jidostita, Severin, 5 family members; fishermen – LipieGheorghe from Olanesi, Vilcea, 4 family members; workers – Doncescu Dumitrufrom Tamna, Strehaia, mechanic; Costinescu Ilie from Obirsia de Camp, Cujmir, 5family members; Dop Anica from Ostrovu Mare; Dinescu Maria from FântânileNegre, Mehedinţi; Carciol Petre from Cireşu, Mehedinti, 4 family members,locksmith; servants – Marinescu Maria from Podeni, Tr. Severin, mother of two,Drăgan Constantin from Baia de Aramă, Fodor Maria from Podeni, Tr. Severin,maid mother of one, and so one; cooks – Coroiciu Ioan, married with one child,from Lespezi, Mehedinţi, Stan Nicolae from Smirna, Mehedinţi, and so on;