Tămădău Affair
The Tămădău Affair (Romanian: Afacerea Tămădău, Înscenarea de la Tămădău - "the Tămădău frameup" - or Fuga de la Tămădău - "the Tămădău flight") was an incident that took place in Romania in the summer of 1947, the source of a political scandal and show trial.
It was provoked when an important number of National Peasants' Party (PNŢ) leaders, including party vice president Ion Mihalache, had been offered a chance to flee Romania, where the Communist Party (PCR), the main force inside the Petru Groza government, already had a tight grip on power with backing from the Soviet Union (see Soviet occupation of Romania). The affair signalled some of the first official measures taken against opposition parties, as a step leading to the proclamation of a People's Republic at the end of the same year (see Communist Romania).
Background
The PCR victory in the 1946 general election, achieved through widespread electoral fraud, was followed by the first attempts at anti-Communist resistance (including large rallies, and the creation of a "military circle" led by Mihalache).
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by: Marshall CrenshawI watch you cross the street among the midday crowd
You wouldn't hear me if I called your name, so I wait
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And when your eyes find mine, I see that look on your face
Every once in a while I know something to be
Nothing else but true and right here and now
I really love you, truly, madly, deeply I do
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The autumn air is filled with memories and possibilities
And how the hours fly by 'cause life is all around us
So much to talk and laugh about between you and me
Oh, it feels so fine to know you got something more
Than what you might dream of and right here and now
I know that I'm truly, madly, deeply in love, uh huh mm
I love to be downtown, that's where the good times are
And when your eyes find mine I see that look on your face
Every once in a while I know something to be
Nothing else but true and right here and now
I really love you truly, madly, deeply I do
Oh, it feels so fine to know you got something more
Than what you might dream of and right here and now