Cazul Vasile Luca, „reţeaua informativă Samoilov” şi situaţia comuniştilor români din U.R.S.S., I: 1940-1944
The Case of Vasile Luca, the Samoilov Espionage Network and the State of Romanian Communists in USSR, I: 1940-1944
Author(s): Dan CătănuşSubject(s): History, Military history, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Special Historiographies:, History of Communism
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studiul Totalitarismului
Keywords: Vasile Luca; Samuil I. Samoilov; Communist Party of Romania; espionage; Soviet Union; World War II; anti-Zionism;
Summary/Abstract: A prominent leader of the Romanian Workers’ Party, Vasile Luca was arrested on 14 August 1952 as being a part of the “right deviation”. Starting 1953, the Securitate investigation aimed at exposing Luca and other Romanian Communists’ alleged espionage activity on the Soviet soil during the Second World War. A creation of the Romanian SSI, the espionage network was allegedly run by the Soviet Colonel Samuil I. Samoilov, a jew born in Bessarabia and a former member of the Communist Party in Romania.The declarations Vasile Luca gave while under investigation are valuable historical sources on the subversive activities of the Romanian Communists stationed in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, their relations to the NKVD, the Red Army and Comintern.
Journal: Arhivele Totalitarismului
- Issue Year: XXV/2017
- Issue No: 1-2
- Page Range: 49-66
- Page Count: 18
- Language: Romanian
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