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Within days of becoming premier, Groza delivered his first major success. On 10 March 1945, the Soviet Union agreed to return to Romania Northern Transylvania , a territory of over 45,000 km 2 (17,000 sq mi) that had been assigned to Hungary through the 1940 Second Vienna Award sponsored by Germany and Italy .
Petru Groza was a Romanian politician, best known as the first Prime Minister of the Communist Party-dominated government under Soviet occupation during the early stages of the Communist regime in Romania, and later as the President of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly from 1952 until his death in 1958.
Groza's success from distances of 40 yards (37 m) and beyond raised the bar for kickers across the league. [62] He set single-season NFL records for accuracy, distance and number of field goals in his first three years in the league, marks that went unbeaten until kicking specialists became a common feature of the game in the early 1970s.
Groza's period in office saw land reform, the RCP's takeover of the administration, army, and police as well as the purge of their political opponents. At the same time, there was large-scale Soviet exploitation of the economy.
Probably the most famous of all of Groza's kicks, the one that resulted in a friend's bronzing the square-toed shoe he wore to accomplish it, was the field goal he kicked against the Los Angeles Rams in the 1950 championship game, with twenty-eight seconds left in the game.
During its first weeks in power, Groza's government undertook an extensive land reform that limited private holdings to 50 hectares, expropriated 1.1 million hectares, and distributed most of the land to about 800,000 peasants.
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Petru Groza was a Romanian politician, best known as the first Prime Minister of the Communist Party-dominated government under Soviet occupation during the early stages of the Communist regime in Romania, and later as the President of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly from 1952 until his death in 1958.
