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Constantin Pîrvulescu (November 10, 1895 – July 11, 1992) was a Romanian
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politician and one of the founders of the
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(PCR), who, as time went on, became an active opponent of leader
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. Briefly expelled from the party in 1960, he was re-admitted and elected to the Party Revision Committee in 1974. In April 1944, acting on the orders of the still imprisoned
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, Pîrvulescu, along with Iosif Rangheț and
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, captured and deposed PCR
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at gunpoint forcing him to resign his position due to charges by Gheorghiu-Dej that he was a police informer. Pîrvulescu, Rangheț, and Bodnăraș, as a troika, replaced him as a provisional secretariat until Gheorghiu-Dej escaped from prison and took up the position of general secretary of the party in September 1944. In November 1979, at the 12th Party Congress, Pîrvulescu took the floor advocating against the re-election of Ceaușescu to the party leadership, accusing him of putting personal interests ahead of those of party and nation. He also accused the congress of neglecting the country's real problems, and being preoccupied with glorifying Ceaușescu. This unprecedented attack came from a man who was a lifelong communist, with a lifelong association with Soviet-style communism (he was the only member of the Central Committee to oppose
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's withdrawal of Soviet troops in 1958). Likewise, being 84 years of age, personal ambition could not be a motivating factor for this speech. Thus, the
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press considered his remarks to be proof of dissatisfaction within the Party's ranks. Pîrvulescu was kicked out of the room, stripped of his position as delegate to the congress and placed under strict supervision and house arrest. On January 16, 1980, he was expelled from the PCR. In March 1989, he was one of the signatories of the
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known as ''Scrisoarea celor șase'' – "The Letter of the Six", together with five other communist dignitaries ( Gheorghe Apostol, Alexandru Bârlădeanu,
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, Corneliu Mănescu, and Silviu Brucan). The document, which was immediately broadcast on
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and
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, was a
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critique of Ceaușescu's policies, and led to the swift arrest and interrogation of the signatories by the
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, and then to their assignment to forced residence at various locations. He was married to Suzana Pîrvulescu (1898–1942), herself a PCR activist who was imprisoned from 1936 to 1939. After the
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, he was made the
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of the Socialist Party of Labour.https://dupa90.ro/timeline-events/9-iulie-1992 He then died on July 11, 1992.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pirvulescu, Constantin 1895 births 1992 deaths People from Vâlcea County People of the Russian Civil War Romanian dissidents Romanian prisoners and detainees General secretaries of the Romanian Communist Party Members of the Great National Assembly Presidents of the Great National Assembly Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania)