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Vianu explains in her book, "Censorship in Romania"[1] that up util the beginning of World War ΙΙ, Romania had a tendency to become closer to Western European countries; Romania tried to establish a free market economy, people had an access to an abundance of books from all over the world, one could freely travel around when they had reasonable grounds, there was a thorough education system, and a literature of her own. Though, things were not enough, Romania had its own social infrastructure and people had freedom to some degree.

Deletant further explains that the Romanian Communist Party (PCR) had no way to gain popular supports from the mass in the context of the Soviet Union being seen as a hostile neighbor until the end of the Second World War. [2] And since many Romanian population were predominantly engaged in agriculture, there was no powerful indigenous working class where the Communist Party could have formed a base.