Abstract
Under the notion of state socialism, Romania, during the period when it was led by Gheroghe Gheorghiu Dej, began to know the harmful effects of censorship, collectivization, centralizing policies. Romanian society, as a whole, and individuals, in particular, were subjected to severe transformations in order to achieve the "ideological purity" so desired by the rulers. Motivating his actions by eliminating arbitrariness from the economy and social life, the regime of Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej worked against the great mass of the peasantry, the private capital existing at that time and the intelligentsia. The existing order, whose democratic approaches had now become a threat to the new state order, had to be changed. The destruction of civil society and all its forms of free expression was also possible with the help of changes in national legislation. Abusive arrests, criminal trials without the slightest defense of the accused, the application of harsh punishments, all these were tools used to create the "new man".
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