Scînteia
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) | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | A2 |
| Publisher | CC of the PCR |
| Editor | Miron Constantinescu (first) |
| Founded | August 15, 1931 |
| Political alignment | Far left |
| Language | Romanian |
| Ceased publication | 1989 |
| Headquarters | Bucharest |
| City | Bucharest |
| Country | Romania |
| Circulation | 1.1 million (as of 1976) |
| Part of a series on the |
| Communist movement in the Kingdom of Romania |
|---|
| Part of a series on the |
| Socialist Republic of Romania |
|---|
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.