Vasile Roaită (1914, Peșteana-Jiu, Gorj –16 February 1933,

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) was a

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n railway worker for ''

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'', shot during the

Grivița Strike of 1933 The Grivița strike of 1933 was a railway strike which was started at the Grivița Workshops, Bucharest, the Kingdom of Romania in February 1933 by workers of Căile Ferate Române (Romanian Railways). The strike was brought about by the increa ...

and later touted as a

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hero under the

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Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (; 8 November 1901 – 19 March 1965) was a Romanian politician. He was the first Socialist Republic of Romania, Communist leader of Romania from 1947 to 1965, serving as first secretary of the Romanian Communist Party ...

. He is buried at the Izvorul Nou Cemetery in Bucharest. The spa town of Eforie Sud on the

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coast was named in 1928 ''Carmen-Sylva'', after the pen name of Queen Elisabeth of Romania; the name was changed to ''Vasile Roaită'' in 1950, and stayed that way until 1962. Likewise, the village of Umbrărești-Deal in

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was named in 1933 after General Eremia Grigorescu; the name was changed to ''Vasile Roaită'' in 1950, and was kept until 1996.

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