Dealul Spirii Trial

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Communist movement in the Kingdom of Romania
Organizations Romanian Communist Party Amicii URSS Scînteia
Leaders Gheorghe Cristescu Elek Köblös Vitali Holostenco Boris Stefanov Ștefan Foriș Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
Repression Repression of communists List of imprisoned communists 1921 Dealul Spirii Trial 1924 Mârzescu Law 1936 Craiova Trial
Strikes Tatarbunary Uprising Grivița strike of 1933 Anti-fascist resistance
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Dealul Spirii Trial (Romanian: Procesul din Dealul Spirii) was a political trial conducted by a military tribunal in the Kingdom of Romania. 271 members of the Communist Party of Romania were accused of treason after voting for the inclusion of the party into the Third International. The defendants were convicted and later pardoned.

The trial was the first step of the repression of communists in the Kingdom of Romania. Less than two years after the trial, the parliament voted a total ban of the Communist Party and communist ideology; for the next two decades, the government enforced a violent repression against the communists and labour unions.

A number of politicians and intellectuals, including Nicolae Iorga, Dem I. Dobrescu, and Iuliu Maniu voiced their discontent over the lack of constitutional basis for the trial.^[1]