Ion Dic Dicescu

His elder son, Iosif Dik [ru], although losing both hands and an eye fighting in the Red Army during World War II, was a successful children's writer in the post-war Soviet Union.

There, he collaborated with several important figures of the Romanian socialist movement, such as Mihail Gheorghiu Bujor, N. D. Cocea, Alecu Constantinescu, or Dimitrie Marinescu, being promoted to assistant editor-in-chief in 1914.

He also edited an atheist magazine, Rațiunea ("The Rationality"), where he addressed themes such as natural sciences, philosophy and sociology, also publishing fragments from Karl Marx's Das Kapital and other European materialist philosophers.

By February, infantry and marines battalions were set up, composed mostly of evacuated workers, but also from Romanians fighting in the Austro-Hungarian Army who had been captured as POWs.

In January 1920, he was sent to the East, being named political commissar of the Turkestan Front, and was tasked with protecting food transports towards Moscow, Petrograd, and Voronezh.

Dicescu also held various research positions at the People's Commissariat for Finance, Central Statistical Directorate and the State Committee for Planning (Gosplan), publishing over 50 scientific works regarding the Soviet economy.

[7] On April 5, 1937, during the Great Purge, Dicescu was arrested and, on January 4, 1938, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR sentenced him to death on charges of espionage.

He was posthumously rehabilitated by a decision of the Soviet Supreme Court in June 1956, and by a Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party in April 1968.