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 | | The Communist Party engaged in a recruitment campaign and was able to attract numbers of workers and intellectuals as well as former members of the fascist (additional info and facts about Iron Guard) Iron Guard. |
 | | The perception of the party as a "foreigners" party likely limited its appeal among ethnic Romanians along with the fact that the largely agrarian economy meant that peasants were the largest element of the population, with the working class being very small. |
 | | When the Romanian Workers' Party became the Romanian Communist Party in 1965 it was reported that the party had 1,450,000 members or 8% of the population with 44% of the members being workers, 34% peasants, 10% intellectuals and 12% in other categories. |
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