Vasile Roaită
Vasile Roaită (1914, Peșteana-Jiu, Gorj –16 February 1933, Bucharest) was a Romanian railway worker for Căile Ferate Române, shot during the Grivița Strike of 1933 and later touted as a proletarian hero under the Communist regime of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej.[1][2] He is buried at the Izvorul Nou Cemetery in Bucharest.[3]
The spa town of Eforie Sud on the Black Sea coast was named in 1928 Carmen-Sylva, after the pen name of Queen Elisabeth of Romania; the name was changed to Vasile Roaită in 1950, and stayed that way until 1962. Likewise, the village of Umbrărești-Deal in Galați County was named in 1933 after General Eremia Grigorescu; the name was changed to Vasile Roaită in 1950, and was kept until 1996.
References
- ^ Boia, Lucian (2001). History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness. Central European University Press. pp. 217–218. ISBN 963-9116-97-1.
- ^ Stoenescu, Alex Mihai. "Cum a fost inventat Vasile Roaită". Historia (in Romanian). Retrieved November 7, 2020.
- ^ Opriș, Petre (June 29, 2018). "Documente funerare despre câțiva membri importanți ai Partidului Comunist din România (1967)". contributors.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved November 7, 2020.