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Industrialization
Ground floor. The story of forced industrialization. After 1948 the regime imposed a planned economy and raised giant factories, turning agricultural towns into industrial centres. Satu Mare gained new plants — machinery, garments, auto parts — and its population was rapidly "proletarianized." Across 12 themes, the room shows the mechanism (the five-year plan, the permanent construction site, production propaganda) and its cost: wasted resources, a degraded environment, and a society reshaped by force.