the truth is that this perpetually contradictory figure, though a Stalinist herself, and one who played a key role in imposing Communism on Romania, paradoxically presented an alternative to the rigid, harsh Stalinism that soon emblemised Romanian party life and left a hidden legacy as a persistent patron of Romania's peasantry within the communist hierarchy. The fall of Ana Pauker was a significant step in a process that precluded any reformist leadership from prevailing in Romania and fated its citizens to endure the extreme hardship that would culminate in the Ceaușescu regime." Family Marcel and Ana Pauker had three children: Tanio (1921–1922); Vlad (1926–2016); Tatiana (1928–2011). Though it was long alleged that she denounced the father of her three children as a Trotskyite, Comintern archival documents reveal, however, that she repeatedly refused to do so. Ana Pauker had a fourth child, Masha (1932–2020), fathered by the Czech-Jewish Communist Eugen Fried; Masha (Maria), who was born in Moscow, was raised in France by her father. Pauker adopted a fifth child, Alexandru, in the late 1940s. Notes References Robert Levy, Gloria și decăderea Anei Pauker, Iași: Polirom, 2002, Second Revised Edition: 2016 (Romanian translation of the English original, translated by Cristina Pupeza and Ioana Gagea) Robert Levy, "Ana Pauker," Jewish Women's Archive. Ana Pauker: Dilemmas of a Reluctant Stalinist Robert Levy on Ana Pauker. Red Star Over Romania, review by Susan Brownmiller in The Nation. Paula E. Hyman, "Ever an Enigma, This Ana," Haaretz, October 12, 2001. (reprint of "Romanian Leader's Political Biography Explores the Costs of Party Loyalty," The Forward, October 5, 2001) "The Red Queen-- The Life and Adventures of Ana Pauker," a 2016 documentary by Radu Gabrea Un episod puțin cunoscut: Schimbarea lui Ana Pauker cu Moș Ion Codreanu, mai 1941 [A less known episode: the exchange of Ana Pauker with Ion Codreanu, May 1941], in Pontes. Review of South East European Studies (Chișinău, Moldova State University), vol. III-IV, 2009, p. 292–301. Ianuț Iamandi, "Roșul Anei Pauker," Dilema Veche, 25 July 2017. External links Communist Romania article from the City of Brașov website on Romania's Communist period, including the conflicts between Pauker and Gheorghiu-Dej. Deputy Prime Ministers of Romania Romanian Ministers of Foreign Affairs Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania) 1893 births 1960 deaths Collaborators with the Soviet Union Female foreign ministers Romanian Comintern people Romanian communists Romanian women in World War II Women members of the Romanian