Intrarea în rezistența armată anticomunistă - motivații individuale și colective
Joining the anticommunist armed resistance - individual and collective motivations

Summary/Abstract: Resistance to communism was fuelled from the start by the firm belief that the situation Romania had to cope with was transient and that the West, the US in particular, would not condone the Soviet empire’s expansion over half of Europe. Though unaware of what the communist regime was really about, people instinctively rejected the new establishment Moscow had helped to power. The resistance groups mainly pursued to remove the communist regime. But most of them knew that by themselves they would never be able to overthrow the regime. Despite the longevity of certain resistance pockets and the large number of “subversive organizations” identified by the Securitate, at no moment did the resistance movement endanger the communist regime in Romania. The resistance movement in Romania needs to be approached and re-evaluated responsibly, while avoiding exaggeration of any kind and appraising the various groups according to strict standards.

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