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Ion Antonescu
Ion Antonescu was a Romanian army officer who ruled Romania as Conducător from 1940 to 1944. Appointed prime minister by Carol II in 1940, he forced the king's abdication, crushed the Iron Guard in 1941 and took Romania into the war against the Soviet Union as an ally of Germany, while his regime deported and killed hundreds of thousands of Jews and Roma. He was arrested in King Michael's coup of August 1944 and executed in 1946.
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