Postwar Political Role
Relentlessly politicized by their communist leaders, the Tudor Vladimirescu Division became a politically reliable military formation of the Romanian communists. Along with another Romanian communist unit, the Horia, Cloşca şi Crişan Division, and backed by tens of thousands of Red Army troops, the Tudor Vladimirescu Division played a key role in imposing communist rule in Romania after the war. The two communist divisions were integrated into the Romanian Army on August 22, 1945. The Tudor Vladimirescu Division was converted into an armored division by 1947 while the regular Romanian army was reduced to four divisions with no tanks, thus providing the Romanian communists the trump cards of mobility and firepower had a conflict with anti-communist elements in the Romanian Army taken place.
The Division was converted into the 1st Armored Division in 1947, then 5 Tank Corps, after 47 Tank Corps, and finally take the name of 37 Mechanised Division, which became in 1957 a Mechanised Division with three mechanized regiments:
- 1 Mechanized Regiment had a military base Ghencea military cemetery across the road. In his major work in state building perezent Steaua.
- 2 Mechanized Infantry Regiment was on the road Oltenitei.
- 3 Mechanized Regiment was deployed behind the Caracal Caracal station.
Tudor Vladimirescu Staff Division, a mechanized was concerned Divisional Razoare the street.
Among the division commanders, and Colonel John Hortopan was reached after general and commander of the Infantry and Tank Commander.
After the 1970 revisions. For example, a regiment withdrew the military base and training ground Antieriană street behind Steaua stadium. All blocks were built there, the regiment barracks and later to command the 2nd Army.
In the 1950s Soviet officers were employed as advisors. Order subunits (battalions, companies) was matched by political officers. After 1956-1957 the youth division officers were assigned to three years in military school or other schools in Sibiu.
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