ROMANIA DURING 1966 AND 1989
Romania during the time of Romanian orphanages was a period of communism and revolt. 1989 was able to mark the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. The children in the Romanian orphanages were kept behind the blanket of communism in the country. The last communist leader of Romania was Ceauşescu, and he is the main reason for the struggles that so many Romanian children had to face.
RISE OF COMMUNISM
Communism started in Romania with the creation of the Socialist Republic of Romania. This party was a Marxist–Leninist one party communist state. This party existed in Romania from 1947 to 1989. Ceauşescu was the last communist leader in Romania, and he wanted to help promote and create a full working force for the economy and country he needed to run. This led to many children needing to be born in order to satisfy his wishes. While Ceauşescu was getting the population to grow, the population researchers were able to use their professional agenda, and built people around the fear of “population decline” in order to place their influence in the public sphere. This influence along with Ceauşescu caused a major growth of children in Romania (Corina).
WOMEN IN ROMANIA
How women in Romania were treated under Communism
A struggle for the women of Romania was the Decree 770 created under Ceauşescu that “forbade both abortion and contraception for women under 40 with fewer than four children” (Andreea and Alina). Women lost the rights they needed in order to protect their own way of life and living. Women continued to have kids that they possibly did not want, and because of this many women were forced to give up their children to an orphanage because they were unable to take care of them. The women of Romania were forced into oppression, pain, shame and illness. So many of their experiences and lives were forms of loss. The women began to lose their overall health, their dignity was stripped, and the ability to be their own person was taken away. The birth rates and orphanages were an example and showed the pro-populationist attitude rooted in the Marxist ideology of communist Romania (Andreea and Alina).
ROMANIAN REVOLUTION
The goal to end the communist party.
