The actual period of each country’s development has relation both to its historical
past – in some cases it reorganizes itself on other bases – and to its vision of
future. Each longer historical period creates a structure which is in many aspects
bounded to it, and mainly from that structure (or from its idealised form), it looks
towards a future it considers a happy one. The triad of past, present and future
gained particular role and significance in European thought and development.
The theoretical, historical, political and practical problems of state socialism
(state capitalism) had essentially been the personal matter of the Soviet Union up
to the end of World War II. After the Central European communist changes, the
issue of the state socialist system turned up as essential and common
characteristics of each small socialist country. Besides general and common
features (which, considering the essential elements of the era, were similar to each
other), each structure’s national characters could appear and develop.1
The Romanian state socialist era (December 1947 – December 1989) and
social, economic and settlement policy within it almost fully conformed to this
historical “expectation”. The acceptable processes of the previous period were
incorporated into its own system, although without any direct or positive
indication to them. However, the Romanian Workers’ Party, then the Romanian
Communist Party after 1965, in most cases opened a “clean page” and pretended
as if it started Romanian history and that socialism was the only one possible
perspective for Romania and for its people (referring sometimes exceptionally to
the minorities living in the country).