The Imprint of the Securitate on the Destiny of a Man of Culture – Nicolae Carandino (1905 - 1996)
The Imprint of the Securitate on the Destiny of a Man of Culture – Nicolae Carandino (1905 - 1996)

Summary/Abstract: This study aims at reconstituting the way in which a bright journalist and man of culture, Nicolae Carandino, entered and remained in the attention of the political police for over forty years, practically until the fall of communism in Romania. The used data were collected from the documents included in the surveillance files concerning Carandino along the years, as well as from memoirs. We have depicted the main moments of his “evolution” as victim of the regime, from 1945-1947, we have followed Carandino’s destiny along his imprisonment years and, especially, during the eight years of home arrest, hybrid form of detention, in which the bars that separate the victim from the free world are no longer visible. In the end, we have crayoned the life of this distinguished man of culture during his “blank” arrest, as he called his existence after his release from house arrest, emphasising his strength in resisting to all the pressures exercised over him along the time.

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