In march 1919, the Third Communist International, also known as the Comintern, was founded by the Russian Bolsheviks. Its declared purpose was to fight "by all available means, including armed force, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie and for the creation of an international Soviet republic as a transition stage to the complete abolition of the State." Officially, the Comintern was an instrument of coordinating communist parties around the world. Unofficially, this coordination will translate into a blind submission in front of Moscow’s interests. Each communist organisation that wanted to become a member of the Comintern had to accept, unconditionally, a set of 21 rules or guidelines. “The 21 Conditions” were officially considered conditions of admission to the International, and they were adopted at its second congress, in 1920. The 21 conditions were meant to organise the global communist movement and to give it a strictly hierarchical and militaristic structure led by Moscow. Basically, every communist organisation in the world that became a member of the Comintern surrendered to Kremlin’s will. The communist parties lost their personalities and their initiative, as they were obligated to adopt the same political stances as the Bolshevik Party. This obedience to Moscow would be one of the main reasons for which almost all communist parties in Europe would be forbidden in the 1920s. Moreover, adopting Moscow’s policies ruined the communists’ political image because, in most cases, these policies were perceived as being antinational and in contradiction with national interests. For example, the Communist Party of Romania adopted Moscow’s vision according to which Romania was an imperialist state created through war, and the communists had to militate for the self-governance (and even separation from the state) of the three provinces united with Roma