Tămădău Affair

Who is Tămădău Affair?

The Tămădău Affair 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 leaders, including party vice president Ion Mihalache, had been offered a chance to flee Romania, where the Communist Party, the main force inside the Petru Groza government, already had a tight grip on power with backing from the Soviet Union. 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.