Consequences of Stalinization for intellectual life (about after the time after proclamation of the People's Republic in 1947)

In the realm of intellectual life, the goal of the Communist Party was to annihilate any form of genuine creativity: literature, history, art, and philosophy were to be ideologically subordinated to the political sphere. The whole cultural tradition was reinterpreted in order to meet the new dogmas: the main names of Romanian literaure were obliterated [wiped out] from official publications, censorship was ruthlessly applied to eliminate anything that smacked of 'nationalism'. 'cosmopolitanism', 'objectivism' or other forms of 'bourgeois decadentism'