--- title: '"Frontul Democrației și Unității Socialiste - cel mai larg organism politic": Romanian wall chart' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/romanian-front-of-democracy-and-socialist-unity-1985/ description: A wheel chart with 'Partidul Comunist Român' at the hub and 33 blue spokes naming unions, councils, professional associations and nationality councils… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [!["Frontul Democrației și Unității Socialiste - cel mai larg organism politic": Romanian wall chart](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/romanian-front-of-democracy-and-socialist-unity-1985.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/romanian-front-of-democracy-and-socialist-unity-1985.jpg) # "Frontul Democrației și Unității Socialiste - cel mai larg organism politic": Romanian wall chart A wheel chart with 'Partidul Comunist Român' at the hub and 33 blue spokes naming unions, councils, professional associations and nationality councils, under a banner calling the Front of Democracy and Socialist Unity 'the broadest political, patriotic, revolutionary and representative body' and a quotation from Ceaușescu describing it as a 'broadly democratic' body working 'under the leadership of the party'. The tell is the stretched word 'democratic' and the stack of virtue adjectives applied to a party-led umbrella (semantic hijacking, glittering generalities). - **Date:** 1985 - **Period:** [Cold War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=cold-war) - **Made by:** Romanian Communist Party (PCR) and its Front of Democracy and Socialist Unity; issuing printer not named on the sheet - **Region:** [Eastern Europe and Eurasia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=eastern-europe-eurasia) - **Country:** [Romania](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=romania) - **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster) - **Issuer type:** [Party](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=party) - **Regime:** [Ceausescu Regime](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=ceausescu-regime) - **Leader:** [Nicolae Ceausescu](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=nicolae-ceausescu) - **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public) - **Purpose:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support) - **Themes:** [Elections and party politics](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=elections-party-politics), [Labor](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=labor) - **Techniques:** [Semantic hijacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/semantic-hijack/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) - **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are - **Source:** [Europeana 1989 collection, Cluj (Romania) contributor, identifier BJC0249, via Europeana](https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/137/_nhXqm9n), retrieved September 29, 2026 - **Rights:** CC BY-SA 4.0 (Europeana record; contributor states CC BY-SA 3.0 PL) Europeana 1989 / Cluj contributor, BJC0249, CC BY-SA ## Text on the object Original (Romanian) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` AMPLUL PROGRAM DE DEZVOLTARE A ROMÂNIEI SOCIALISTE TRASAT DE CEL DE-AL XIII-LEA CONGRES AL PARTIDULUI COMUNIST ROMÂN FRONTUL DEMOCRAȚIEI ȘI UNITĂȚII SOCIALISTE - CEL MAI LARG ORGANISM POLITIC, PATRIOTIC, REVOLUȚIONAR ȘI REPREZENTATIV „Și în viitor trebuie să ridicăm continuu nivelul activității Frontului Democrației și Unității Socialiste, organism politic larg democratic ce asigură participarea organizată a tuturor organizațiilor de masă și obștești, a tuturor categoriilor de oameni ai muncii, a întregului popor, sub conducerea partidului, la înfăptuirea Programului partidului, la ridicarea patriei noastre pe o nouă treaptă de dezvoltare, la creșterea continuă a bunăstării materiale și spirituale, la înfăptuirea politicii de pace, de colaborare cu toate statele lumii, fără deosebire de orânduire socială". NICOLAE CEAUȘESCU PARTIDUL COMUNIST ROMÂN [hub of the wheel] Spokes, clockwise from the top: UNIUNEA GENERALĂ A SINDICATELOR / UNIUNEA TINERETULUI COMUNIST / CONSILIUL NAȚIONAL AL FEMEILOR / ORGANIZAȚIA PIONIERILOR DIN R.S. ROMÂNIA / UNIUNEA CENTRALĂ A COOPERATIVELOR MEȘTEȘUGĂREȘTI / ASOCIAȚIA OAMENILOR DE ȘTIINȚĂ / UNIUNEA SOCIETĂȚILOR DE ȘTIINȚE MEDICALE / UNIUNEA SOCIETĂȚILOR ȘTIINȚIFICE ALE CADRELOR DIDACTICE / UNIUNEA ARTIȘTILOR PLASTICI / UNIUNEA ARHITECȚILOR / ASOCIAȚIA CINEAȘTILOR / ASOCIAȚIA JURIȘTILOR / CONSILIUL OAMENILOR MUNCII DE NAȚIONALITATE GERMANĂ / COMITETUL NAȚIONAL PENTRU APĂRAREA PĂCII / REPREZENTANȚI AI CULTELOR / CONSILIILE OAMENILOR MUNCII DE NAȚIONALITATE UCRAINEANĂ DIN JUDEȚUL SUCEAVA ȘI JUDEȚUL MARAMUREȘ / CONSILIILE OAMENILOR MUNCII DE NAȚIONALITATE SÂRBĂ DIN JUDEȚUL TIMIȘ ȘI JUDEȚUL CARAȘ-SEVERIN / ASOCIAȚIA CRESCĂTORILOR DE ALBINE / ASOCIAȚIA GENERALĂ A VÂNĂTORILOR ȘI PESCARILOR SPORTIVI / CONSILIUL NAȚIONAL PENTRU EDUCAȚIE FIZICĂ ȘI SPORT / SOCIETATEA DE CRUCE ROȘIE / COMITETUL FOȘTILOR LUPTĂTORI ȘI VETERANI DE RĂZBOI ÎMPOTRIVA FASCISMULUI / CONSILIUL OAMENILOR MUNCII DE NAȚIONALITATE MAGHIARĂ / CONSILIUL ZIARIȘTILOR / ASOCIAȚIA OAMENILOR DE ARTĂ DIN INSTITUȚIILE TEATRALE ȘI MUZICALE / UNIUNEA COMPOZITORILOR / UNIUNEA SCRIITORILOR / SOCIETATEA DE MEDICINĂ VETERINARĂ / COMITETUL NAȚIONAL AL INGINERILOR ȘI TEHNICIENILOR / UNIUNEA CENTRALĂ A COOPERATIVELOR DE CONSUM / UNIUNEA NAȚIONALĂ A COOPERATIVELOR DE PRODUCȚIE / UNIUNEA ASOCIAȚIILOR STUDENȚILOR COMUNIȘTI / ORGANIZAȚIA DEMOCRAȚIEI ȘI UNITĂȚII SOCIALISTE 25 [page number, lower right corner] ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` The broad programme for the development of socialist Romania set out by the 13th Congress of the Romanian Communist Party. / The Front of Democracy and Socialist Unity: the broadest political, patriotic, revolutionary and representative body. / "In future too we must continuously raise the level of activity of the Front of Democracy and Socialist Unity, a broadly democratic political body that ensures the organised participation of all mass and public organisations, of all categories of working people, of the whole people, under the leadership of the party, in carrying out the Party's Programme, in raising our country to a new stage of development, in the continuous growth of material and spiritual well-being, in carrying out the policy of peace and cooperation with all states of the world, regardless of social system." Nicolae Ceaușescu. / Romanian Communist Party [hub]. Spokes: General Union of Trade Unions; Communist Youth Union; National Council of Women; Pioneers' Organisation of the S.R. of Romania; Central Union of Handicraft Cooperatives; Association of Scientists; Union of Medical Science Societies; Union of Scientific Societies of Teaching Staff; Union of Visual Artists; Union of Architects; Association of Film-makers; Association of Jurists; Council of Working People of German Nationality; National Committee for the Defence of Peace; Representatives of the Religious Denominations; Councils of Working People of Ukrainian Nationality from Suceava and Maramureș counties; Councils of Working People of Serbian Nationality from Timiș and Caraș-Severin counties; Beekeepers' Association; General Association of Sport Hunters and Anglers; National Council for Physical Education and Sport; Red Cross Society; Committee of Former Fighters and War Veterans against Fascism; Council of Working People of Hungarian Nationality; Journalists' Council; Association of Performing Artists of Theatre and Music Institutions; Union of Composers; Union of Writers; Society of Veterinary Medicine; National Committee of Engineers and Technicians; Central Union of Consumer Cooperatives; National Union of Production Cooperatives; Union of Associations of Communist Students; Organisation of Democracy and Socialist Unity. [25] ``` Read from the 945 x 1280 px file and from enlargements of the wheel. The hub and the spokes are as printed; the spoke order is clockwise from the top. Line breaks and hyphenation inside the spokes are not reproduced. Translation by machine, not verified by a fluent reader. [← "Na atoomreagan geen zonneschijn": banner at a Dutch anti-nuclear demonstration](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/na-atoomreagan-banner-1982/) [Nancy Reagan holds up a 'Just Say No' sign for press photographers →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/just-say-no-sign-ranch-1986/) ## Using the same techniques - [Mr. John Dillon, M.P., on recruiting in Ireland. Join an Irish regiment to-day](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/john-dillon-on-recruiting-in-ireland-1915/) (1915 · Testimonial, Semantic hijacking) - [Auch die Geduld hat ein Ende (Even Patience Has an End), German-language leaflet for German soldiers](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/allied-leaflet-auch-die-geduld-hat-ein-ende-1918/) (1918 · Scapegoating, Semantic hijacking) - ['Zeitaku wa teki da!' (Luxury Is the Enemy!) street sign, Tokyo](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/luxury-is-the-enemy-sign-1940/) (Aug 1, 1940 · Semantic hijacking, Identity fusion) - [V = Duitschland wint voor Europa op alle fronten (V = Germany wins for Europe on all fronts)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/v-duitschland-wint-voor-europa-1941/) (1941 · Semantic hijacking) - [Crowd at the Arkansas State Capitol protesting school integration, with signs reading "Race mixing is Communism," Little Rock, Arkansas](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/race-mixing-is-communism-1959/) (Aug 20, 1959 · Semantic hijacking, Transfer) - [Address announcing a 'special military operation'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/special-military-operation-address-2022/) (Feb 24, 2022 · Euphemism / doublespeak, Semantic hijacking) - [Gold solidus of Constantine I, reverse RESTITVTORI LIBERTATIS](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-constantine-i-restitutori-libertatis-0313/) (0313 · Glittering generalities) - [Gold solidus of Justinian I, reverse VICTORIA AVGGG with Victory holding a Christogram staff](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-justinian-i-victoria-avggg-0538/) (0538 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)