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LB: Your life is like Cinderella’s fairy tale. With a happy marriage until old age. But if the narrator had gone into the details of the princess’s life, we might have discovered that the former Cinderella had also perverted her power. With multiple misspellings, our Cinderella recounted her childhood in the autobiography given to the Party in 1949.
I was born in the commune of Petreti, Dâmbovi condadoa county, in 1919 on January 7. The parents are named Nae and Alexandrina, the occupation of the farmers, the fortune of 4 hectares of land and house. Between 1926 and 1930 I attended elementary school in the commune where I was born. The locals of Petre detii de Dâmbovița avoid talking about their famous villager. Lenuța Petrescu’s marital status is said to have changed during her marriage. From Lenuța she became Elena, and the year of her birth changed from 1916 to 1919. It is true that now in her birth certificate in the Petrești archive, her first name is Elena and the year of birth is 1919.
LB: In the village, the girl was called Lenuța lui Briceag, the nickname came from her father. Nae Petrescu was a peasant with a certain condition. He had opened a shop in his house, selling nails, thread, wire, brandy, tobacco and knives, a special product in the local market. It is said that her mother served in her youth in a more prosperous home and that she had come from there with a different view of the world.
MD: “She was a girl in the house of the boyar Gălescu from Vișina and because she was very beautiful and very intelligent, Nae being friends with the boyar Vălescu from Vișina, they probably talked, she complained that it was difficult and suggested to her mother Elena and it happened like that. He took her for a wife. And they immediately had two children.
GD: Everyone was talking to Mr. Nae and Ms. Alexandrina.
The priest Gheorghe Dinulescu still serves in the church of Petrești and remembers how shortly after the death of Elena Ceaușescu’s father in 1949, the cross on the pedestal disappeared. It seems to be of your order.
GD: I made a sign of the Holy Cross because he didn’t have it, to show that he was also Orthodox, he was Christian.
A: Elena Ceaușescu saw the sign you made.
GD: He saw. But he didn’t know who did it. He looked and said he was a relative of mine.
Along with Nicolae Petrescu, Elena’s mother, Alexandrina Petrescu, should have been buried. The second son of the family and Elena’s brother, Gogu, had decided this together with the priest. Elena resisted again. You can see that when he grew up, his political convictions were more important than the eternal peace of his parents.
GD: We organized a very nice space there but also with some citizens. I let my partner know that I had taken him out of the agricultural perimeter and then he was only allowed to take him out by weight and then he gave him an order and moved the cemetery, moved the fence.
R: But did she know why you had crossed this perimeter, that this place was only for her mother?
GD: Yes, I knew. Lixandrina Petrescu was going to be buried next to her, but the revolution was at its peak, she was hospitalized and from the hospital bed they asked her where Lenuța and Nicu were, a nurse told her that she had killed her people. And she said, “Burn the fire of the town.” And he died.
Lenuta went to school like the other children in the country, more classes with a teacher without textbooks with a tablet instead of notebooks. With such teaching aids, it’s no wonder she didn’t learn spelling and punctuation.
LB: Exceptionally, the school documents of the promotion of Elena Petrescu have disappeared. In the village, some say they were burned one night in the summer of 1989, others say they were stolen, but some say they were taken after Ceausescus’s execution to Bucharest to be published in the press.
IF: I heard from the former director of the commune, Mr. Păun, that in the fourth grade it was still repetitive.
CI: In 1972 an aunt asked me to look for the transcript that she wanted to complete her studies and I found the record she kept in that safe and in 1989, I was the director, I looked for the transcript, I found the transcript and I went to România Libera because România Libera was the party’s newspaper at the time.
LB: Do you remember the grades I had?
IF: Yes, I remember: 2, 3, 4, I also had 5 and 4 to use.
LB: The transcripts published in România Libera on December 31, 1989 give the impression that they were falsified, that it is difficult to believe that in the country a child is repeatedly left with 15 unmotivated absences, it is difficult to believe that they can be correct in practical work or that a priest puts a grade 3 on a child’s religion.
The published transcript shows that in the 1928-1929 school year the student had completed the 5th grade without being able to pass it. The document appears fake for several reasons. In the first place, because in that year Elena would only have been 9 years old, that is, the age corresponding to the second grade A. Secondly, in the following year 1929-1930 the enrollment table was crossed with the poster Taller de Sastrería, but This practice to follow the school and professional trajectory of young people belongs to the communist regime that had not yet established itself. The truth is that Elena Petrescu had attended 4 primary school classes. The legend of the place says that the bad marks published in the newspapers are due to the conflict between his family and that of the teacher.
GD: He said that he would have made it repetitive, but there was a dispute between the teacher Bucurescu and Mr. Petrescu and he said that he would take revenge by leaving his repetitive face.
At the urging and responsibility of her brother, at the age of 17 Lenuța arrived in Bucharest. He worked as an apprentice in a clothing factory.
MD: My grandfather and my partner were good cousins, that is, their parents and brothers. My grandfather brought her to Bucharest. It was very rainy weather, it had rained a lot on the angora hat and it had lengthened due to the accumulated water and my grandfather told us how he was rushed through Bucharest at that time by a guy who was probably making donuts and selling them and using them in the head. in a tray. They passed him and overturned his tray of donuts. Come on, Ilenuță, let’s run.
Rahela Rozenfeld, his brother’s girlfriend and later wife, was Lenuta’s first and stable friend in Bucharest. Because of these relatives, he approached organizations sponsored by the Communist Party. However, the communist movement was banned in Romania.
LB: While Lenuța Petrescu worked as a stakeholder, her future husband Nicolae Ceaușescu was an apprentice at Doftana University, that’s what the prison communists said, that’s what they called the University.
Ceausescu’s people did not keep diaries and did not write their memoirs, so we cannot accurately date the meeting between them. Lenuta suited the young revolutionary perfectly as a life partner. She had a healthy background, she was hard-working, young, chic, even if we had to take some photos of our youth. Between them, the lovers will say Nicu and Lenuța to death. Her future husband made a romantic declaration of love at the Veseliei Park celebration in 1939. In Veseliei Park, a Miss Labor Queen pageant was organized.
LB: The title of Queen of Labor was won by the girl from Petrești. The vote was by postcard. Most of them were bought by Nicolae Ceaușescu to write on his beloved.
The celebration was seen by the police who reported its transformation into a communist demonstration. A short time later, for being among the leaders of the communist youth organization, Nicolae Ceausescu was sentenced to 3 years in prison in absentia, and Lenuta was fired for instigating and participating in a strike at the factory where she worked. 2 years of unemployment followed.
Later, her lover Nicu Ceaușescu was arrested in the summer of 1940 and imprisoned in Jilava.
LB: In Jilava prison there was a completely amazing episode for your biography of the Communists. Nicolae Ceausescu and Elena Petrescu misled the prison administration. Under the pretext of dental treatment, the young detainee Nicolae Ceaușescu was released from prison guarded by a guard. The guard did not accompany him to the dentist, but to a communist party conspiracy house where his girlfriend Lenuta was waiting for him. Under the guard of the guard, the policeman, the man of the law, the class enemy, as they say, the two spent beautiful hours of loving intimacy.
As a result of this violation, Lenuța was dismissed from the party’s job and Nicu was punished with a vote of guilt by the communist leadership in prison.
From 1941 to August 23, 1944, she worked at the Jacar y Gross factory, and the party’s work was reduced to carrying packages with exchanges and food to her boyfriend and brother interned in the Târgu Jiu camp.
NOTE
LB-prof. Lavinia Betea
MD-Mariana Dinulescu, niece of Elena Ceaușescu
GD-Gheorghe Dinulescu, priest in Petrești, Dâmbovița
IF- Ion Fieraru, professor at Petrești in 1989
CI-Constantin Ilie, professor at Petrești in 1989
EC- col. Eugen Cristea, dir. Adj. Presidential Security 1980-1989
IH- academic Ionel Haiduc
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