Scînteia
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Scînteia (Romanian for "The Spark") was the name of two newspapers edited by Communist groups at different intervals in Romanian history. The title is a homage to the Russian language paper Iskra. It was known as Scânteia until the 1953 spelling reform, which replaced the letter  with the phonologically identical Î in all cases.
Key facts
- Newspaper.name
- Scînteia
- Newspaper.image
- Scînteia 21 decembrie 1989.jpg
- Newspaper.caption
- The penultimate issue of Scînteia, 21 December 1989. The headline reads: "''Comrade Nicolae Ceaușescu's speech for radio and television stations''" (official answer to the outbreak of the Romanian Revolution)
- Newspaper.type
- Daily newspaper
- Newspaper.format
- A2
- Newspaper.publisher
- CC of the PCR
- Newspaper.political_position
- Far left
- Newspaper.language
- Romanian
- Newspaper.editor
- Miron Constantinescu (first)
- Newspaper.headquarters
- Bucharest
- Newspaper.publishing_city
- Bucharest
- Newspaper.publishing_country
- Romania
- Newspaper.circulation
- 1.1 million
- Newspaper.circulation_date
- 1976
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Scînteia 21 decembrie 1989.jpg
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- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1989-12-21
- title
- Scînteia
- inception
- 1931-08-15
- Commons category
- Scînteia
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9 sectionsContents
- History
- 1919 in Odessa
- In Romania (1931–1989)
- Fate after December 1989
- Post-1944 editors in chief
- Other staff
- See also
- References
- External links
Scînteia (Romanian for "The Spark") was the name of two newspapers edited by Communist groups at different intervals in Romanian history. The title is a homage to the Russian language paper Iskra. It was known as Scânteia until the 1953 spelling reform, which replaced the letter  with the phonologically identical Î in all cases.
==History== ===1919 in Odessa=== The first paper of that name was edited by Romanian revolutionaries in Bolshevist Russia, appearing throughout 1919 in the city of Odessa.