Constantin Dăscălescu ( , ; 2 July 1923 – 15 May 2003) was a
Romania
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communist
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politician who served as
Prime Minister of Romania during the
communist rule of
Nicolae Ceaușescu, from 21 May 1982 until the
Romanian Revolution
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in 22 December 1989.
He was born in
Breaza de Sus,
Prahova County
Prahova County () is a county (județ) of Romania, in the Historical regions of Romania, historical region Muntenia, with the capital city at Ploiești.
Demographics
In 2011, it had a population of 762,886 and the population density was 161/k ...
, to Nicolae and Stanca Dăscălescu. From 1937 to 1941 he trained as a
metal lathe operator at a vocational school in his hometown, after which he started working at the Astra Română company in
Câmpina.
In October 1945 he joined the
Romanian Communist Party
The Romanian Communist Party ( ; PCR) was a communist party in Romania. The successor to the pro-Bolshevik wing of the Socialist Party of Romania, it gave an ideological endorsement to a communist revolution that would replace the social system ...
(PCR), and stayed on his job until November 1947. From 1949 to 1962 he studied at various schools for communist cadres: in
Ploiești
Ploiești ( , , ), formerly spelled Ploești, is a Municipiu, city and county seat in Prahova County, Romania. Part of the historical region of Muntenia, it is located north of Bucharest.
The area of Ploiești is around , and it borders the Ble ...
, at the
Ștefan Gheorghiu Academy in
Bucharest
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, and at the
International Lenin School in
Moscow
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.
At the same time, he advanced in the PCR hierarchy, and served as First Secretary of the Communist Party in
Galați
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from 1965 to 1974.
He resigned from his position as Prime Minister under pressure from the revolutionaries gathered at the headquarters of the Central Committee of the PCR, right after Ceaușescu escaped from the building. In 1991, after the revolution, Dăscălescu was sentenced to life in prison. After five years he was released on medical grounds.
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1923 births
2003 deaths
People from Breaza
Romanian Communist Party politicians
People of the Romanian revolution
Prime ministers of Romania
Romanian prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment
Romanian politicians convicted of crimes
Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Romania
International Lenin School alumni
Heads of government who were later imprisoned
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