Dictionar Biografic
Biographical Dictionary

Summary/Abstract: On of the elite officers of the Romanian Army at the beginning of his career, General Radu Băldescu participated to the campaign on the East Front in the Second World War. Finding the General an “enemy to the democratization of the Army”, the new regime removed him from command (in 1946) and then ordered him to retire (in 1947). He was arrested by the Securitate in Sibiu in December 1951; then he was incarcerated in the Jilava prison, where he died. Major Nicolae Dabija distinguished himself on the battlefields of the Caucasians and Crimea. Starting with 1948, he becomes involved in the Romanian anticommunist resistance and organizes the groups of partisans in the Apuseni Mountains, with their headquarters at Muntele Mare. The Securitate troops cunningly capture him; he is sentenced to death and executed in October 1949. Peasants’ Party, Ion Mihalache was a model of moral conduct in Romanian politics between the two World Wars. His rejection of any form of compromise with the representatives of the “proletarians’ dictatorship” after 1945 made him a hateful figure to the communist authorities. Ion Mihalache was arrested in 1947 and tortured in prison despite his old age. He died in prison.

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