![]() ![]() In fact her precarious personality, although unpredictable and duplicitous, was by no means mutually exclusive. It argues that despite the negative rhetoric against Pauker, she was a woman that was both vicious but also ironically humane in some situations. Levy’s famous biography of Pauker is an elusive explanation of one of the most complex women to have ever graced modern politics. In other words, although she was a harsh Stalinist, she did do some good, and was by no means solely the monster that she was painted by the Western media. However, her rise to power did not miss the rhetoric and the violence of a socialist transition, nor was her rule particularly dominated by either overwhelming evil or good. In fact, she was very much in the grey zone, in her attempt to stabilize the transition from an autocratic fascist government to a socialist one. The first woman in history to hold the highest position in a state, as foreign minister and unofficial party leader, her face was triumphantly pasted on a 1948 issue of Time magazine, which called her not only a rigid woman, but a Stalinist. ![]() ![]() Romania’s Iron Lady has made very little headway in the history books despite her significant role as the unofficial head of the Romanian Communist party, and effectively the nation, between 19. ![]()
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