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Virgil Solomon

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Because the so-called "right-wing" party is diligently striving to lower parliamentary dignity, to compromise the democratically elected regime, to bring down the institution that has promoted civilisation and uplifted peoples, to torpedo the system that thwarts dictatorship. Dictatorship and adventurous attempts, the sorry values in which these would-be pioneers of Christianity believe. And, finally, because Virgil Solomon is a fearless soldier of the truth, a leader of the Maniu line of action – that these good-for-nothing gangs so much... "adore", – a feared debater, undefeated in the real parliamentary battle, who never once lets himself be intimidated by the terror of parade nationalism."
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recalled the moment in an article: "Why was the Peasants' Party leader slaughtered? Because Hitler's mercenaries, illiterate in politics and parliamentary manners, are incapable of civilised combat, of serious discussion, of human reasoning. And their ideological erudition culminates in... a fight...
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After the Royal Coup of 23 August 1944, as the Allies decided that the political forces should collaborate with the communists, P.N.Ț. became part of the ensuing coalition governments. Virgil Solomon was appointed Minister of Public Works and Reconstruction and served in the governments led by
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From 1926 onwards, he ran in parliamentary elections and two years later won his first parliamentary mandate (from Odorhei). He was re-elected in Odorhei in 1932; after the dissolution of Parliament and the new elections in 1933, he became a substitute deputy and, in 1935, an active deputy for
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Afterwards, he resumed his party duties, as chief of the Odorhei branch as well as a member of the P.N.Ț. representative body, from September 1945 to the day he was arrested, on May 5, 1947.
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in 1945, Corneliu Coposu reported: "Among the Nationalist leaders who played a leading role, giving unlimited support to (party) Chairman Maniu, I must include the names of Messrs.
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Arhiva Consiliului Național pentru Studierea Arhivelor Securității (ACNSAS), fond Penal, dosar 444, vol 1, Proces verbal de interogatoriu, 8 April 1955.
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as part of the reserve force, working in medical institutions around Vienna. After the war, he worked as a social insurance doctor in
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Spații carcerale în România comunistă. Penitenciarul Sighet (1950–1955), vol. II: Detenție și post detenție: repere biografice
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Solomon was among the first Peasants' Party members to be arrested. The initiative, he recalled, had belonged to communist
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after the main candidate withdrew. It was during this term that Solomon was assaulted in Parliament by representatives of
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With no arrest warrant to his name until 1954 and without trial, Solomon was held from 1947 to 1955 as a
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needed reshuffling, because the local organisation had dissolved after the departure of the leaders.
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Corneliu Coposu sub lupa securității - declarații, corespondențe, conferințe și scrieri inedite
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from 1941 to 1944 and as Minister of Public Works from 4 November 1944 to 6 March 1945 in the
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He became politically active during his student days. On 1 December 1918, he attended the
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In March 1964, all his restrictions were finally lifted and he was allowed to move to
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physician and politician who served as the deputy general secretary of the
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Contribuții studențești la mișcarea pentru unirea Transilvaniei cu România
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His mother, Ana, was from the Vasu family in 273:In 1924, according to an investigation of the 343:, with the immediate objective of liberating 8: 780:Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania) 15: 611:, Arpașu de Jos town hall, archived from 196:Family, studies and professional activity 428:, where he was brought in an ambulance. 382:, from 4 November 1944 to 6 March 1945. 335:to get Romania out of the alliance with 587: 176:(27 August 1894 – 4 August 1972) was a 41:4 November 1944 – 6 March 1945 516:. București: Editura Roza Vânturilor. 339:and to continue the war alongside the 223:and continued his medical studies in 7: 790:Ministers of public works of Romania 775:National Peasants' Party politicians 268:Union of Transylvania with Romania 14: 820:People detained by the Securitate 313:In 1937 he again won a seat, but 795:Romanian prisoners and detainees 605:"Istoric – Comuna Arpașu de Jos" 785:Members of the Romanian Cabinet 399:1946 Romanian general elections 578:, CXII, 257, 5 noiembrie 1944. 1: 326:coup d'état of 23 August 1944 136:Socialist Republic of Romania 433:placed into forced residence 703:Monitorul Oficial, p. 7.182 443:(1955–1960), then in 347:. 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Index

Constantin Sănătescu
Nicolae Rădescu
Constantin Eftimiu
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
Drăguș
Fogaras County
Austria-Hungary
Bucharest
Socialist Republic of Romania
National Peasants' Party
Romanian
National Peasants' Party
Sănătescu
Rădescu
Drăguș
Fogaras County
Voila
Arpaș
Cluj
Budapest
Vienna
Austro-Hungarian Army
First World War
Sighișoara
Târnava-Mare County
Great National Assembly
Alba Iulia
Union of Transylvania with Romania
Securitate
Odorhei County

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