After a couple of months, on
February 10th 1947, to be precise, a series of peace treaties with
the former allies of the Nazi Germany like Romania, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria
and Finland was signed. Each of these defeated countries tried to improve their
difficult situation as they possibly could at that time. However, all of them,
apart from Bulgaria, have lost territories and had to make compensation
payments after the war.
At the peace
conference, Romania was represented by a government controlled by the communist
party imposed by the Soviet occupation. The Romanian lobbyists and the team who
worked on the official stand tried to bring strong arguments in support of
Romania s case. Gheorghe Apostol had a leading position in the Romanian
Communist Party and in a 1995 interview to Radio Romania said that the biggest
fight to represent Romania s interests at that time wasn t put up by the
communists in the government.
Gheorghe Apostol: Romania s delegat