Corneliu (Cornel) Coposu () (20 May 1914 – 11 November 1995) was a
Christian Democratic and
liberal conservative
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Romanian politician, the founder of the
Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party ( ro, Partidul Național Țărănesc Creștin Democrat), the founder of the
Romanian Democratic Convention
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( ro, Convenția Democratică), and a
political detainee during the
communist regime
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. His political mentor was
Iuliu Maniu
Iuliu Maniu (; 8 January 1873 – 5 February 1953) was an Austro-Hungarian-born lawyer and Romanian politician. He was a leader of the National Party of Transylvania and Banat before and after World War I, playing an important role in the U ...
(1873–1953), the founder of the National Peasant Party (PNȚ), the most important political organization from the interwar period. He studied law and worked as a journalist.
Biography
Early life
Corneliu Coposu was born in
Bobota,
Sălaj County
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, at that time in
Austria-Hungary
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(now in
Romania
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), to the
Romanian Greek-Catholic archpriest Valentin Coposu (17 November 1886 – 28 July 1941) and his wife Aurelia Coposu (''née'' Anceanu, herself the daughter of Romanian Greek-Catholic archpriest Iuliu Anceanu). Corneliu had four sisters: Cornelia (1911–1988), Doina (1922–1990), Flavia Bălescu (b. 1924), and Rodica (b. 1932).
He too was a devout member of the church and joined the
Romanian National Party
The Romanian National Party ( ro, Partidul Național Român, PNR), initially known as the Romanian National Party in Transylvania and Banat (), was a political party which was initially designed to offer ethnic representation to Romanians in the ...
(PNR), a group dominated by Greek-Catholic politicians –
Gheorghe Pop de Băsești
Gheorghe Pop de Băsești () or George Pop de Băsești (), also known under the nickname ''Badea'' Gheorghe or ''Badea'' George (roughly Brother or Uncle Gheorghe/George) (1 August 1835 – 23 February 1919) was an Imperial Austrian-born Roman ...
was an acquaintance of the Coposu family, and
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod or Vaida-Voievod (27 February 1872 – 19 March 1950) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian politician who was a supporter and promoter of the Union of Transylvania with Romania, union of Transylvania (before 1920 part of ...
was a relative on Corneliu Coposu's mother's side.
After studying Law and Economy at the
University of Cluj (1930–1934), he engaged in local politics with the PNR's direct successor, the
National Peasants' Party
The National Peasants' Party (also known as the National Peasant Party or National Farmers' Party; ro, Partidul Național Țărănesc, or ''Partidul Național-Țărănist'', PNȚ) was an agrarian political party in the Kingdom of Romania. It w ...
(PNŢ), and worked as a journalist; he wrote for ''România Nouă'', edited by Zaharia Boilă, ''Mesajul'' (
Zalău
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History
Ancient times
Zalău is situated in the ...
), ''Unirea'' (
Blaj
Blaj (; archaically spelled as ''Blaș''; hu, Balázsfalva; german: Blasendorf; Transylvanian Saxon: ''Blußendref'') is a city in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It has a population of 20,630 inhabitants.
The landmark of the city is the f ...
). He became the private secretary of
Iuliu Maniu
Iuliu Maniu (; 8 January 1873 – 5 February 1953) was an Austro-Hungarian-born lawyer and Romanian politician. He was a leader of the National Party of Transylvania and Banat before and after World War I, playing an important role in the U ...
, the leader of the PNR and PNŢ, who had been a leading actor factor in
Transylvania
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's
union with Romania (1918), and as head of the Transylvania Directory Council. Coposu wrote in detail about this experience in his "secret diary", discovered after the
collapse of communism
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and published in 2014.
World War II
Accused of propaganda against the National Rebirth Front (Frontul Renașterii Naționale), Coposu was sent into forced domicile in Bobota. After the
Second Vienna Award
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of August 1940, when Romania was forced to cede
Northern Transylvania to
Hungary
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, Coposu moved to
Bucharest
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. He became the political secretary of Maniu, the leader of the clandestine opposition to
Marshal Ion Antonescu, and the leader of the anti-Nazi resistance in Romania. Maniu was contacted by representatives of the British authorities, and Coposu was one of his trusted assistants; the group maintained contacts between the Romanian politicians who were negotiating the country's exit from the alliance with the
Axis Powers
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, in order to join the
anti-Nazi Alliance (USA, UK, USSR) (an alternative kept by the Antonescu government). In his "secret diary", Coposu explained the role of Iuliu Maniu as the main organizer of the coup d'état against Antonescu.
In 1945, after the
royal coup against the Antonescu regime, Coposu became deputy secretary of the PNŢ and, after the reintegration of Northern Transylvania, the party's delegate to the leadership of provisional administrative bodies. He was also active in organizing the party as the main opposition to the
Communist Party
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and the
Petru Groza
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cabinet before the
1946 general election.
Communist persecution
The
communist regime
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established and
controlled by the Soviets, arrested him on 14 July 1947, together with all the leadership of the National Peasants' Party, after some of the party leadership had allegedly tried to flee the country in a plane landed at
Tămădău (''see
Tămădău Affair
The Tămădău affair ( ro, Afacerea Tămădău, ''Înscenarea de la Tămădău'' – "the Tămădău frameup" – or ''Fuga de la Tămădău'' – "the Tămădău flight") was an incident that took place in Romania in the summer of 1947. It was t ...
''). His mentor, Iuliu Maniu, the leader NPP, the most important political organization in Romania, received a life sentence in a show trial. Maniu died in 1953, in the infamous
Sighet Prison
The Sighet prison, located in the city of Sighetu Marmației, Maramureș County, Romania, was used by Romania to hold criminals, prisoners of war, and political prisoners. It is now the site of the Sighet Memorial Museum, part of the Memorial ...
, but his death certificate was released only eight years later. Coposu was imprisoned without trial for nine years, as all charges brought against him were dismissed due to lack of evidence. Coposu later attested that his imprisonment, imposed by Soviet officials overseeing the
Securitate
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, was among those causing a stir in the higher echelons of the Communist Party.
Belu Zilber Belu Zilber (born Herbert Zilber; October 14, 1901–February 1978) was a Romanian communist activist.
Born into a Jewish family in Târgu Frumos, Iași County, Dinu C. Giurescu, ''Dicționar biografic de istorie a României'', p.579. Editura M ...
, a Communist who was purged together with
Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, later told him that prominent party politician
Ana Pauker
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had unsuccessfully opposed the move in front of
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
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.
In 1956, Coposu was sentenced to
life imprisonment for "betrayal of the
working class
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" and "crime against social reforms". In April 1964, he was freed after 15 years of detention and 2 years of forced residence in
Rubla (
Brăila County
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Demographics
In 2011, Brăila had a population of 304,925 and the population density was 64/km2.
* Romanians – 98%
* Romani, Russians, Lipo ...
), having spent, in all, 17 years of
incarceration in 17 notorious detention and
hard labor facilities associated with the communist regime, including
Sighet Prison
The Sighet prison, located in the city of Sighetu Marmației, Maramureș County, Romania, was used by Romania to hold criminals, prisoners of war, and political prisoners. It is now the site of the Sighet Memorial Museum, part of the Memorial ...
,
Gherla Prison
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,
Jilava
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The name derives from a Romanian word of Slavic origin ( Bulgarian жилав ''žilav'' (tough), which passed into Romanian as '' ...
,
Râmnicu Sărat Prison
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Before World War II
The prison was built at the ...
,
Pitești Prison
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, and the
Danube–Black Sea Canal
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(where he was imprisoned with his friend and collaborator
Șerban Ghica).
Coposu later testified having been impressed by the deep scars
collectivization
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had left in the country, as well as by the resilience of the Rubla deportees (''see
Bărăgan deportations
The Bărăgan deportations ( ro, Deportările în Bărăgan) were a large-scale action of penal transportation, undertaken during the 1950s by the Romanian Communist regime. Their aim was to forcibly relocate individuals who lived within appro ...
'') — "They traded in vegetables they had grown themselves while locals could not be convinced that these could actually grow on the
Bărăgan". In the 1990s, during debates over the overall number of victims of the Communist regime between 1947 and 1964, Coposu spoke of 282,000 arrests and 190,000 deaths in custody.
After his release, Coposu started work as an unskilled worker on various construction sites (given his status as a former prisoner, he was denied employment in any other field), and was subject to
Securitate
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surveillance and regular interrogation. After the collapse of communism, Tudor Călin Zarojanu published large excerpts from the huge Securitate file on Corneliu Coposu, kept for decades by the secret communist political police
His wife
Arlette was also prosecuted in 1950 during a rigged
espionage
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trial, and died in 1966, soon after her release, from an illness contracted in prison.
Coposu managed to keep contact with PNȚ sympathisers, and re-established the party as a clandestine group during the 1980s, while imposing its affiliation to
Christian Democracy and the
Christian Democrat International
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.
Post-communism
On 22 December 1989, (during the
Romanian Revolution
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), he and prominent members of the party issued a
manifesto that confirmed the PNŢ's entry into legality, under the name
Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNȚ-CD).
For the rest of his life, Coposu was the main voice of the opposition to the
National Salvation Front (from 1992, the
Democratic National Salvation Front
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). Present at his party's headquarters, he was targeted by during the
January 1990 Mineriad (the first of the
Mineriad
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s) on 28 January 1990. The
Prime Minister
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Petre Roman
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addressed the angry mob who wanted to lynch Coposu and the other leaders of the democratic opposition, pretending to mediate the conflict. In an attempt to create a resemblance between how the dictator Ceaușescu exited the armored vehicle before his trial and Coposu's flight, under the pretext of protecting Coposu from the angry crowd, Roman commissioned an
armored vehicle
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to drive him to the headquarters of the Romanian National Television where Roman promised Coposu that he could make a statement which would be aired later that day. The statement was recorded but it did not air. No copy of the recording was ever found in the archives.
Coposu successfully grouped various organizations into the
Romanian Democratic Convention
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(CDR), of which he was the leader between 1991 and 1993. He was elected to the
Senate of Romania
) is the upper house in the bicameral Parliament of Romania. It has 136 seats (before the 2016 Romanian legislative election the total number of elected representatives was 176), to which members are elected by direct popular vote using party-li ...
in the
1992 general election. In 1995, the government of France granted him the ''
Grand Officier de la Légion d'Honneur
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'' during a ceremony in Bucharest.
Regarding
Emil Constantinescu
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After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, Constantinescu became a founding member and vice president ...
's election as the CDR's candidate for the
presidential office in 1992, Coposu stated: "The candidate was elected in an absolutely democratic manner. The appointment of the candidate of the Democratic Convention for the position of president of the country was made according to the most authentic democratic rules. All five candidates had the moral stature and prestige to honor the highest magistracy of the country. We, the Democratic Convention, wish the only candidate, elected by the vote of the 67 major presidential electors, to succeed in the elections and to achieve his first goal, which is the eradication of communism in Romania."
Death
He died in Bucharest while undergoing treatment for
lung cancer
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. Some 100,000 people attended his funeral three days later.
OMRI Daily Digest
, No. 223, 15 November 1995 He was buried in the Catholic section of Bellu cemetery
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It is located on a plot of land donated to the local administration by Baron Barbu Bellu. It has been in use since 1858. Th ...
.
One of the main thoroughfares in the capital now bears his name. A bust
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* ''Bust'' (magazin ...
of Coposu now stands next to Kretzulescu Church, in Revolution Square.
In a 2006 poll
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conducted by Romanian Television
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to identify the "greatest Romanians of all time", Coposu came in 39th.
Notes
References
"Distrugerea ţărănimii" ("The Destruction of the Peasant Class")
in '' Jurnalul Naţional''
*Adrian Cioroianu
Adrian Mihai Cioroianu (born January 5, 1967, Craiova, Romania) is a Romanian historian, politician, journalist, and essayist. A lecturer for the History Department at the University of Bucharest, he is the author of several books dealing with R ...
, ''Pe umerii lui Marx. O introducere în istoria comunismului românesc'' ("On the Shoulders of Marx. An Incursion into the History of Romanian Communism"), Editura Curtea Veche
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, Bucharest, 2005
* ;
* Corneliu Coposu, ''File dintr-un jurnal interzis. 1936-1947, 1953, 1967-1983'', ediție îngrijită de Doina Alexandru (București: Editura Vremea, 2014), ;
* Cristian Fulger, Tudor Călin Zarojanu (editori), ''Seniorul Corneliu Coposu'' (București: Humanitas, 2014), ;
* Dennis Deletant, ''Ceausescu and the Securitate: Coercion and Dissent in Romania, 1965–1989'', M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, New York
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, 1995
* Gabriela Gheorghe, Adelina Huminic
"Istoria mineriadelor din anii 1990–1991" ("The History of the 1990–1991 Mineriads")
in ''Sfera Politicii
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''
*Robert Levy, ''Ana Pauker: The Rise and Fall of a Jewish Communist'', University of California Press
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, Berkeley
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, 2001;
* ''Mărturisiri. Corneliu Coposu în dialog cu Vartan Arachelian'', ediția a 3-a (București: Fundația Academia Civică, 2014) rima ediție, 1991
* Nicolae Prelipceanu's interview with Corneliu Coposu, in ''Agora'', IV/4, October–December 1991, pp. 29–40;
* Pavel, Dan; Huiu, Iulia (2003), ''"Nu putem reuși decît împreună." O istorie analitică a Convenției Democratice, 1989-2000'', Iași: Editura Polirom, ;
* Toma Roman jr.
"Nobleţe – Modestie princiară" ("Noblesse – Princely Modesty")
in ''Jurnalul Naţional'', 25 August 2005
*Vladimir Tismăneanu
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, ''Stalinism pentru eternitate'', Polirom
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, Iaşi, 2005 (translation of ''Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism'', University of California Press
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, Berkeley
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, 2003, )
* Tudor Călin Zarojanu, ''Viața lui Corneliu Coposu'' (1996: Editura Mașina de Scris, București); ediția a III-a, revăzută și completată publicată în Cristian Fulger, Tudor Călin Zarojanu (editori), ''Seniorul Corneliu Coposu'' (București: Humanitas, 2014), Partea a III-a, ;
External links
Corneliu Coposu foundation
Short bio on the Romanian Chamber of Deputies site
Short bio on the Sighet Memorial site
''Corneliu Coposu on the condition of the intellectual'', Radio Free Europe interview, February 1993
"Corneliu Coposu"
at the '' Mari Români'' site
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