First Communist Prime Minister of Romania

Date: March 6, 1945 • Location: Moscow, Russia

Petru Groza of the Ploughmen's Front became the first prime minister of the Communist Party-dominated government of Romania.

Petru Groza was a Romanian politician, best known as the first Prime Minister of the Communist Party-dominated government under Soviet occupation during the early stages of the Communist regime in Romania, and later as the President of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly from 1952 until his death in 1958.