Procesul de reeducare în universul concentraţionar comunist din România. Metoda Aiud
The Re-Education Process Inside the Communist Concentration Camps in Romania. The Aiud's Method

Summary/Abstract: The re-educational processes represented a statutable aspect within the complex reality of totalitarian regimes. "To re-educate" in a non-democratic system means to forcibly inoculate somebody with information, beliefs or attitudes that apply to the totalitarian society. The "new human being" was to be created, and the prisons seemed to be the perfect places to find people that could be transformed into "new human beings", which were supposed to neither need a certain system to refer themselves to, nor to be able to place themselves into a certain context. The re-education system in Romanian prisons had several sides such as: Piteşti re-education type - an atrocious experiment based on self-criticism and adhesion under the pressure of continuous physical torture; re-education through labor -a method proffered by the regime but also a very traumatizing reality -that was applied in all Romanian labor colonies; Chinese re-education type, applied in Aiud prison...

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