Draft:Elena Ilinoiu Codreanu

Elena Zelea Codreanu (Name at birth Elena Ilinoi, born on the 2nd of December, Dedulești, Braila County, Kingdom of Romania - death on the 5th of September 1994, Bucharest, Romania, was a member of the Iron Guard and the wife of Corneliu Zelea Codreanu.

Elena was married a second time, with Colonel Constantin Praporgescu, the son of the General David Praporgescu.

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Elana Ilinoiu was the daughter of Constantin Ilinoiu, who worked as an officer at the railway, and had studied in writing and in the period of studies, who knew Corneliu Zelea Codreanu. The wedding took place after the acquittal of Codreanu and in the process of the assassination of the prefect of the Police Manciu. The wedding took place at Husi, and the religious part was organized in Focsani, in the Petresti Grove, on the 14th of June 1925, the wedding in which 80,000 to 100,000 people had attended.

After the assassination of Codreanu in 1938, Elena Ilinoiu had went into hiding in Translyvania together with Catalina, the adopted child of Codreanu, and soon escaped to Czechoslovakia, in Prague, with the help of the legionnaires who were exiled in Germany, they took refuge in Berlin.

In 1940, after the ascension of power of the Iron Guard, she returned to Romania and settled down in the house of her father in law in Husi.

In the first years after the communist regime had come to power in Romania, Elina Ilinoiu had become obligated to return the Buick automobile in which was given to her by the Ministry of Army Affairs, but still managed to keep her tobacco flow for profit. Years later, it was withdraw, in 1950, authorization was given to function the tobacco flow, in which after she had become a political prisoner, and went through the prison at Mislea, Targsor, Arad, Oradea.

After she was released from prison she was deported, until in 1964, in Bărăganului Plain, at Latesti, where she had mandatory resident, from her allies, Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu, Adrian Marino, Paul Goma, Nicolae Balota, Maria Antonescu (Wife of Ion Antonescu), Gheorghe Flondor, si Nadia Russo.