Romanian systematization programme

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Systematization (Romanian: Sistematizarea) was a programme of urban planning and social engineering in the Socialist Republic of Romania from 1974 to 1989. The legal framework for this programme was established as early as 1974, but it only began in earnest in March 1988, after the Romanian authorities renounced most favoured nation status and the American human rights scrutiny which came with it. The declared aim of this programme was to eliminate the differences between urban and rural, by razing half of Romania's 13,000 villages and moving their residents into hundreds of new "agro-industrial centres" by 2000. It was carried out by the Romanian Communist Party under the leadership of Nicolae Ceaușescu, impressed by the ideological mobilization of North Korea under its Juche ideology, with the stated goal of turning Romania into a "multilaterally developed socialist society". It consisted largely of the demolition and reconstruction of existing settlements, in whole or in part, in order...

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