WHITE GUARD ORGANIZATION-A JUDICIAL FRAME-UP MADE BY SECURITY IN HUNEDOARA Cover Image

O ÎNSCENARE JUDICIARĂ REGIZATĂ DE SECURITATEA HUNEDOREANĂ ORGANIZAŢIA “GARDA ALBĂ“
WHITE GUARD ORGANIZATION-A JUDICIAL FRAME-UP MADE BY SECURITY IN HUNEDOARA

Author(s): Cosmin Budeanca
Subject(s): History
Published by: Argonaut

Summary/Abstract: This approach tries to reveal to the readers a judicial frame-up directed in 1958 by Security in Hunedoara together -vvith communist authorities in order to eliminate any virtual opponent of the regime. The sources author had in mind were-most of them-oral interviews; beside them, archive documents-some of them unique-were also very helpful. In 1958 took place in Deva (Hunedoara) a trial against 73 people accused of armed insurrection. The "hero" of this frame-up \Vas loan Nistor, a technician at Iron Works Hunedoara who at the time he was arrested had serious psychic problems, being in hospital several times. Together with him 72 people were arrested; those hardly knew• him. Several months Security investigated them and after moral and physical pressures those poor had to admit they Yvere guilty of some unreal blames. The trial took place about three days in Christmas Eve 1958 and all the 73 arrested were separated in three groups. they were condemned to death (some of them), or to prison (five or more years). All the fortune they had gathered in their lives had been confiscated. The study follows the events from the beginning (first people arrested) to the liberation of the survivors, underlining investigations, trials, prison, sufferings (arrested and their families) and the results of the imprisom11ent.

  • Issue Year: 1999
  • Issue No: I
  • Page Range: 259-285
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: Romanian