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    Vasile Luca (born László Luka; 8 June 1898 – 23 July 1963) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian and Soviet communist politician, a leading member of...
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  • player Vasile Luca (1898–1963), communist politician Vasile Lucaciu (1852–1922), Greek-Catholic priest Vasile Lupu, Moldavian Voivode Vasile M. Popov...
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    Stalin's approval for purging Pauker and her allies in the Secretariat (Vasile Luca and Teohari Georgescu). But archival evidence has led Vladimir Tismăneanu...
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    Gheorghiu-Dej – Politburo member, Secretary Vasile Luca – Politburo member, Secretary Gheorghe Maurer Vasile Mârza [ro] Alexandru Moghioroș Andrei Neagu...
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  • Luca, Americo-Liberian composer Roxana Luca, Romanian figure skater Vasile Luca, Romanian politician Luca (given name) Luca (disambiguation) DeLuca (surname)...
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    Politburo. Initially close to the faction formed around Ana Pauker and Vasile Luca, Borilă rallied with their adversary Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, thus ensuring...
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    Gheorghiu-Dej in the inner-party struggles, helping to topple Ana Pauker and Vasile Luca, and simultaneously framing, then executing, Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu. Witnesses...
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    thanking him for the help. In Romania, Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu, Ana Pauker and Vasile Luca were arrested, with Pătrășcanu being executed. The Soviets generally...
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    BPR(k) – Trajczo Kostow i Wyłko Czerwenkow; RPR – Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Vasile Luca i Anna Pauker; WPP – Mátyás Rákosi, Michał Farkas, Ernö Gerö; PPR – Jakub...
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    Pauker, and Vasile Luca, he was considered one of leaders directing the new regime's policy, as highlighted by the popular epigram "Ana, Luca, Teo, Dej...
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    Leon Kalustian Remus Koffler † Radu Korne Radu Lecca Gheorghe N. Leon Vasile Luca Horia Macellariu Nicolae Macici Ernest Maftei Mihail Manoilescu Gheorghe...
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  • positions in the Romanian Communist government. Being associated with Vasile Luca, Minister of Finance, Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party (PCR)...
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    thanking him for the help. In Romania, Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, Ana Pauker and Vasile Luca were arrested, with Pătrăşcanu being executed. Stalin's NKVD emissary...
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    identify the following factions: the "Muscovites", notably Ana Pauker and Vasile Luca, who had spent the war in Moscow and the "Prison Communists", notably...
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    Romania during World War II), he worked with Ana Pauker, Leonte Răutu, and Vasile Luca for the Romanian language branch of Radio Moscow, first as a newsreader...
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    first President of Ukraine from 1991 to 1994 Olha Kobylyanska Zvi Laron Vasile Luca (1898–1963), Soviet and Romanian communist politician Anastasiya Markovich...
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  • 1930s, as associates of General Secretary Vitali Holostenco, he and Vasile Luca were elected to the internal Politburo (which was doubled by a controlling...
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    on September 12, 1944. Present in Moscow, he contacted Ana Pauker and Vasile Luca through their overseer Andrey Vyshinsky, reestablishing communication...
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  • Mihail Levente [ro] Leon Lichtblau Haia Lifșiț Elisabeta Luca [ro] Gherasim Luca Vasile Luca Mihail Macavei George Macovescu Mihai Magheru Corneliu Mănescu...
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    for the Grivița Railway Yards, where he met Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Vasile Luca, and Constantin Doncea; together, they started organizing a strike. On...
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    hemicycle containing the funeral urns of Communist leaders, such as Vasile Luca, Ștefan Foriș, Iosif Chișinevschi, Ana Pauker, Mihail Roller, and Remus...
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  • judge Leon Lichtblau, communist activist Samuel Leibowitz, attorney Vasile Luca, communist politician Gheorghe Gaston Marin, communist politician Nati...
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    Moscow (he had also been the one to voice official accusations against Vasile Luca in February 1952). Surviving Pauker's fall, he personally witnessed the...
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    Moghioroș to stand guard over and watch for chauvinism in the activities of Vasile Luca, another high-ranking ethnic Hungarian targeted for purging. He sat on...
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    accused of having conspired with the disgraced Minister of Finance, Vasile Luca, to bring Romania under a localized version of the New Economic Policy...
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    events is contradicted by historian Liviu Pleșa, who notes that Foriș and Vasile Luca (whom Foriș had employed at Előre) were part of a "Magyar camp" which...
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  • politician Elek Köblös (1887 – 1938), activist and political leader Vasile Luca (1898 – 1963), Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian and Soviet politician of...
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  • Hungarian communist politician and economist, who served as Deputy to Vasile Luca within the Romanian Ministry of Finance, and eventually became a victim...
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  • be arrested. The initiative, he recalled, had belonged to communist Vasile Luca, who was heard saying that "Solomon must be immobilized" because of his...
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    address later that day, Rădescu blamed the attack on Ana Pauker and Vasile Luca, calling them "hyenas" and "strangers without kin or God". The next day...
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