Dictionar Biografic
Biographical Dictionary

Summary/Abstract: Anton Arnăuțoiu was one of the Resistance heroes. An army officer and a jurist by training, together with his brother, Toma Arnăuțoiu and Colonel Gheorghe Arsenescu founded the “Muscel Outlaws”. Due to his serious physical condition he was arrested from Toria Sanatorium and interrogated by the Securitate officers and he never turned his brother in. Alexandru Bârlădeanu was a leftist from the interwar period, who joined the Communist party in 1936. As a young man, he studied socialist economy in Moscow and in the 1960s he was the one who opposed Romania’s forced integration into the COMECOM plans, being well acquainted with the Soviet economic system. His disputes with Ceausescu in 1965 resulted in his marginalisation. In 1989 he was one of the signatories of the famous protest “Letter of the Six”. He ended his political career as president of the Senate between 1990-1992, maintaining his leftist views. Constantinescu Claps was a career officer who fought in the second Balkan War and in the First World War, becoming a knight of the “Mihai Viteazul” Order. During the Second World War he served as the commander of Army Corp 11 and, between the autumn of 1941 and February 1943, he was commander of the Fourth Romanian Army. Arrested in March 1949 for his connections with the National Peasants’ Party, he was released for lack of evidence; his was arrested again in September 1951 for allegedly having executed 6 Soviet partisans on the East front. He was sentenced to 15 years of forced labour, but following his appeal, he was released after 4 years in September 1955, at the age of 70. Gheorghe Grijincu, a military man from High Moldavia, who fought on the east front in 1941, became a POW in January 1944. He escaped and fled to the region unoccupied by the Red Army, where, together with his brother Vasile Grijincu, he joined the partisan group led by Vladimir Macoveiciuc. In October 1944 he was captured by the NKVD and sentenced by the Soviet Military Court to 25 years of forced labour. Imprisoned in Dnepropetrovsk and Matrasov labour camps, he was pardoned together with the other POWs in November 1955 and repatriated.

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