Pauker was certainly complicit in the extensive purges and arrests in 1945 of tens of thousands of Romanians who were linked to the fascist Ion Antonescu regime.
Paukerová nesie spoluvinu pri rozsiahlych čistkách a zatýkaní desiatky tisícov Rumunov, ktorí boli napojení na režim Iona Antonesca v roku 1945.