GHEORGHE CRUTZESCU Podul Mogoşoaei – Povestea unei străzi

234 ■ GHEORGHE CRUTZESCUin the years 1946‐1947, which led to the imposition of the abdication on 30 thDecember 1947, and his leaving the territory of Romania. After 1990, on severaloccasions, he returned to Romania invited by the nostalgic ones willing to restorethe monarchy. In such context, the programme of the visit included the ex‐King’spassing under the Arch of Triumph.50Page 164: As from 1 st August 1943 he was appointed as the Representativeof Romania in Denmark.51It was a crucial moment. His wife preferred to come to Bucharest to a newaddress. In 1943 she lived on 10 Ing. Davidescu Street.52Alexandra Mihaylovna KOLLONTAI (Russian Александра МихайловнаКоллонтай) née Domontovich (Russian Домонтович) [Shura] (19 th /31 st March1872, Sankt Petersburg – 9 th March 1952), daughter of General Mikhail AlekseevichDomontovich, a participant in the 1877‐1878 War in the South of Danube, thenadministrator of the territory of Bulgaria in the years 1878‐1879. Shura showedan early interest in history and politics, her later studies making her a consummateprofessional. After 1917 she was a Russian communist activist. Subsequently, sheheld various positions in the Soviet diplomacy.53Although in the first moments (years 1944‐1946) many of the measureswith draconian consequences imposed by the occupiers liberators were taken byoutstanding persons willing to collaborate with the new regime, over the time thefundamental issues were operatively and effectively taken over by the people directlysubordinated to the orders given from the East. Ana Pauker was such an executor(the term having multiple facets, including bullets, torture, sadism).Ana PAUKER was born on 1 st December 1893, in Codaesti commune, Vasluicounty, and died on 3 rd June 1960 in Bucharest, being incinerated at the HumanCrematorium. The daughter of Hersh Kaufmann and Shura Rabinsohn, a family ofOrthodox Jews from Moldavia, she attended “Fellowship of Zion” primary schooland “Rashela and Filip Focsaneanu” vocational school in Bucharest, and later onshe taught Hebrew language and religion (1910‐1917). Decisively influenced bythe ideological line chosen by Marcel Pauker, her husband (they got married on 1 stJune 1921), she was actively involved in shaping the future of the Communist Party,paying particular attention to the ethnic composition of those recruited.After the end of the war, she attended a first academic year at the Faculty ofMedicine of Geneva, and another year at the similar faculty in Moscow.Sometimes referred to as Hannah Rabinsohn, she was an incisive politician,teacher, Minister of Foreign Affairs. A communist militant since the foundationof the Party, Ana Pauker was the voice who imposed what was dictated by theleadership of the Komintern in Bucharest. After the seizure of the entire state power,she held various leading positions in the state and party, among which the leadershipof M.F.A. from 5 th November 1947 to 10 th July 1952. Then followed those whichled to the loss of the internal struggle for the leading position.Finally, she was removed from the leadership and party structures, along withthe entire Moscow faction.