Dictionar Biografic
Biographical Dictionary

Summary/Abstract: Former lawyer and war veteran Marcel Băltărescu was arrested in 1947, “because of his past and his anti-communist beliefs,” being imprisoned at Gherla until May 1, 1948. On August 10, 1952 he was arrested gain, dealt an administrative sentence and sent to the Danube-Black Sea Canal, first at the labor camp of Gales and then at Peninsula. He was released on May 27, 1954 but he was not admitted to the Bar so he worked for a long time as a day laborer in constructions. Gen. Ion Eremia joined the Communist party in 1942, when it was still an underground party. After the war he was appointed to higher and higher positions in the armed forces, but after 1953 his career faded and he gradually turned away from the party’s official policy. Because of a memorandum sent to Gheorghiu-Dej after debating the matter with other former underground activists (Victor Dusa, Dumitru Petrescu, C. Agiu, etc.), he was ousted from the party in 1956, for “factional activity.” He was arrested in October 1956, for having tried to send to France for publication the novel Gulliver in the Land of Lies, in which he lashed at the Bucharest regime. Freed in 1964, rehabilitated in 1979, he was not taken back into the ranks of the party.

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