Nicolae Ceaușescu had a habit of not bearing contradictions. People who knew him during the illegal prisons say that at one point, Ceaușescu wanted to play chess in his cell with the winner of the previous games. Ceaușescu played chess poorly, and the pieces were made of bread core and cardboard board.
Ceaușescu was defeated, but he remained timid and with that vengeful look from later. It was said that he would never forget the offense of that prisoner to whom, during his power, Ceaușescu would have cut off any perspective.
Nicolae Ceaușescu quickly renounced the man who had been his main guarantor in Romania when he was appointed head of the Romanian Workers’ Party after the death of Gheorghiu-Dej.
We are talking about Ion Gheorghe Maurer here. The two did not get along in the early 1970s amid production directions in the industry.
Maurer demanded strict specialization and importation and Ceaușescu wanted Romania to produce everything.
Ceaușescu was contradicted by Maurer
On a pheasant hunt in the 1970s or 1971, in the Cioflecu-Giurgiu Forest, Maurer and Ceaușescu had a heated discussion, Ceaușescu hunted the pheasants that came to Maurer’s hunting stand:
Maurer: Listen to me, Nicholas! You should also know that I am not a Husák and I will never be a Husák of Romania.
Ceaușescu: “Tell him what we shot today?
Head of the hunt: “You shot 54 pheasants, and Comrade President Maurer, 29 pheasants.
Ion Gheorghe Maurer died in poverty, sick and abandoned by everyone. Photo source. Video capture
Maurer: Well done, Nicholas! How can you not shoot so many pheasants when these guys have been looking for a week to see where is the best place to sit on you. And that wasn’t enough for you. You also reached out with your gun at the pheasants that came to me or to Feneser. Come on, Nicholas! Where the hell are you going to look for this justice because you won’t find it even in the forest!”.
Obviously, Nicolae Ceaușescu will try to isolate Maurer and even liquidate him. He is credited with ordering the removal of Ion Gheorghe Maurer, former prime minister of Romania.
He, an old member of Dej’s team, a former lawyer who had defended the communists in the interwar years, had helped Ceaușescu in his rise. But he had come into conflict with him, because Maurer contradicted eCaușescu in economic decisions. Many times, inconsistent with reality. Maurer advocated “to produce little and well”, which Nicolae Ceaușescu had refused. He wanting Romania to produce everything, not necessarily qualitatively.
He survived an accident
The dignitary Ion Gheorghe Maurer survived the accident in 1972, in Covasna. When a truck did not stop when the pedestrian warned and hit a Trabant in front of it. Then he entered the opposite direction, smashing the car in which the first secretary of Covasna county, Kiraly Karol and the dignitary Ion Gheorghe Maurer were returning from a hunt. Sport that Ion Gheorghe Maurer was very passionate about.
Ion Gheorghe Maurer endured 13 complicated operations in the local hospital, refusing to be transferred by helicopter to Bucharest, fearing that he would be poisoned in the helicopter.
In 1974, he retired, retaining his pre-retirement privileges. It was considered that the Soviets also wanted to eliminate Maurer, the one who had advised Dej to distance himself from the Soviets and had been considered a true “gray eminence of Romanian communism”.
Ion Gheorghe Maurer revealed these data after 1993, he lived until the year 2000, at the age of 97, getting to see the fall of Ceaușescu and the post-December transformations of Romania as a simple eyewitness.
2023-08-20 17:11:25
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