Chivu Stoica
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Chivu Stoica (August 8, 1908 - February 18, 1975) was a Romanian Communist political figure.
Stoica began his career as an employee of Căile Ferate Române, the state railway corporation, and in 1934 was sent to prison for his role in the Griviţa Strike of 1933. At Târgu Jiu prison, he was close to Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who may have wanted Stoica to be his successor as General Secretary.
He was a member of the Central Committee of the Romanian Worker's Party from 1945 to 1975, and of the Politburo. He served as prime minister of Romania between 1955 and 1961 and as President of the Council of State of Romania from 1965 until 1967.
In his later years, he fell out of favour with Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife Elena. His death, by a hunting rifle bullet to the head, was ruled a suicide, though doubts remain.
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- (Romanian) Final Report of the Presidential Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania, pp. 649-50
- (Romanian) "Zvonurile 'epocii de aur'" ("Rumours from the 'Golden Age'"), Lavinia Betea, Jurnalul Naţional, January 15, 2007
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