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Citing a statement by Pătrăşcanu rendered by The New York Times, British Trotskyist commentator Tony Cliff extended his critique of the people's democracies of the Eastern Bloc to the realm of justice systems and retribution for war crimes.

According to the American newspaper, Pătrăşcanu had reassured media that " industrialists, businessmen and hankers will escape punishment as war criminals "; Cliff also argued that the new course in justice had failed to alter what he saw as Romania's " bureaucratic and militarist character ".