Petre Borilă, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Petre Borilă

Romanian politician

Date of Birth: 13-Feb-1906

Place of Birth: Silistra, Silistra Province, Bulgaria

Date of Death: 02-Jan-1973

Profession: minister, political commissar

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Petre Borila (born Iordan Dragan Rusev; Bulgarian: ?????? ?????? ?????, Yordan Dragan Rusev; 13 February 1906 – 2 January 1973) was a Romanian communist politician who briefly served as Vice-Premier under the Communist regime.
A member of the Romanian Communist Party (PCR) since his late teens, he was a political commissar in the Spanish Civil War and a Comintern cadre afterwards, spending World War II in exile in the Soviet Union.
Borila returned to Romania during the late 1940s, and rose to prominence under Communist rule, when he was a member of the PCR's Central Committee and Politburo. Initially close to the faction formed around Ana Pauker and Vasile Luca, Borila rallied with their adversary Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, thus ensuring his own political survival.
He subsequently endorsed the official policies, and played a part in ousting Gheorghiu-Dej's newly found rival, Iosif Chisinevschi, but was progressively marginalized after Nicolae Ceausescu emerged as Romania's ruler in 1965.
Objecting to Ceau?escu's nationalism, he also had a notorious personal conflict with the new leader, after the latter's son Valentin married Borila's daughter.