The Relations between the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Socialist Republic of Romania (1970-1975). The First Years of activity of the Department of Information and International Relations within the Central Committee of the Moldavian Communist Party

From the need to understand and know more clearly the nature of the relations between Bucharest and Kishinev in the post-war period, we have found that following the activity carried out by certain departments within the CC of the MCP could serve as a source of information. Beginning with the year 1970, the Department of Information and International Relations began its activity, under the direct authority of the party leadership. Progress reports, information notes, correspondence notes of the depart¬ment relating to the cooperation with the Romanian party include details of particular importance because they allow us to identify a wide range of relations in which Romanian counties and Moldavian districts were involved at the beginning of the early 1970s. Mutual exchanges of delegations were made between Botoșani, Iași, Suceava, Galați, Vaslui and Fălești, Bălți, Ungheni, Cahul, Vulcănești. At the beginning, exchanges were occasioned by the marking of certain important days in the common history, later on the parties supported the cooperation at the level of specialised groups. Even though the selection of the persons who would go abroad, especially, of those who would go into the SRR represented a more complex procedure with the appropriate training, and the Romanian delegations were accompanied by the most qualified specialists of the “Inturist” Joint-Stock Company, however, this was a method of maintaining the connections between Romanians on the left and right side of Prut