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The Romanian legislation between 1949-1952 – an unconditional base of the collectivization 99expropriated hectares; Paianu teodor of Foisor – 550 expropriated hectares;Vrabiescu Elvira from Ghindeni – 442 expropriated hectares, and so on 22 .All the expropriated landowners that were found at home were givenforced residences in towns. There were also several cases of expropriatedlandowners that were arrested (Eugenia Constantinescu – Breasta, BarbuMarinescu – Carpen, Angelina Ecaterina – Braneti, Zoia Ionescu – Belot,Ecaterina Isvoranu – Brabova, Nicolae Birlandescu – Plesoi, and so on 23 ); trailed(Vasiluta Mihai – Veleni, Margareta Virzoran – Plesoi, Sanda Oroveanu –Botosani, and so on 24 ); others, even though they were not trailed wereimprisoned (Nicu Iuga – Rasnic, Constantin Negoescu – Cernatesti, Gh.Amarescu - Brabova 25 ).The decree 83/1949 made provisions of punishments of 5 to 15 years offorced labor and the seizure of the belongings for all those who “by any meanswould try to stop the expropriation and those who would try to hide, destroy ormove the goods or machinery destined to expropriation”. According to theseprovisions, Teodorescu Stefan from Podari, Dolj County was trailed andconvicted to 12 years in prison and the seizure of belongings, through thesentence no. 1719 of Popular Law Court of Craiova on April 19, 1949 26 .The same punishment was given to those who gave the authorities fakeor incomplete data regarding their belongings. The clerks or the persons entitledby the decree to perform certain duties that were subject to punishments of up to12 years in prison and fines of up to 200,000 lei if they failed or refused toperform their duties regarding expropriation.The Ministry of Agriculture was the institution entitled to put intopractice the provisions of the decree 81/1949, along with the Ministry of Justice(through the Popular Courts of Law transformed into Popular Tribunal throughthe law 5 of 1952 27 ) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.The expropriated arable land surface became the property of the state andlater of the GASs (29 in Oltenia’s 5 counties by the end of 1949), of the stateinstitutions, popular council and parts of it were also given to poor peasants thatagreed to give the state 60% of the agricultural production. Was the collectivefarms were formed, the remaining arable land was given those, through MANdecrees of HCMs “to be forever used” by those. Beginning to 1950, a series ofGACs were given land that had been given to GASs, SMTs, popular council stateinstitutions or peasants who refused to work the land due to the high percentage ofthe agricultural production that had to be given to the state 28 .22 Idem, Sf. Pop. Dolj, dos. 141/1949, f. 1-17.23 Idem, special office, dos. 126/1950, f. 91-117.24 Idem, dos. 73/1951, f. 83-87.25 Idem, f. 61/70.26 Idem, dos. 5/1950, f. 42.27 Buletinul Oficial, no. 31 of June 19, 1952.28 Arh. St. Dolj, Sf. Pop. Reg. Craiova, special office, dos. 51/1952, f. 46.