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| | Ana Pauker Information |
 | | Just as forcefully, she argued against the Soviet-inspired monetary reform that drove down prices of farm goods and risked provoking drastic shortages. |
 | | Pauker's initially unreserved Stalinist Muscovite faction within the Communist Party (so called because many of its members, like Pauker, had spent years in exile in Moscow) was opposed by the Prison faction (most of whom had spent the Fascist period, mainly under Ion Antonescu's dictatorship, in Romanian prisons, particularly Doftana Prison). |
 | | Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, the de facto leader of the Prison faction, had supported intensified agricultural collectivization and was a rigid Stalinist: however, he resented Soviet influence (which would become clear at the time of De-Stalinization when, as leader of Communist Romania, he was a determined opponent of Nikita Khrushchev). |
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