Implemented by Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, it included the marginalization of Stalinists such as Ana Pauker and a large-scale amnesty of thousands of political prisoners.
A number of political and cultural figures from the 19th century fight for independence were rehabilitated and writers formerly considered "bourgeois decadent" (like Tudor Arghezi) were allowed to publish again.
[1] It marked the beginning of a period of liberalization in Communist Romania, which ended in 1971 with the July Theses returning the country to the Totalitarian side which was renamed Ceauşism.
Many placenames, companies and institutions had been named after Stalin and the "classics of Marxism", as well as Romanian Communist heroes.
The reason for the change was to have a better proportion between international and local names, part of the advancement of National Communism in Romania.