THE PERPETRATORS’ TESTIMONIES: THE CASE OF ALEXANDRU DRAGHICI AND HIS ASSOCIATES
THE PERPETRATORS’ TESTIMONIES: THE CASE OF ALEXANDRU DRAGHICI AND HIS ASSOCIATES
Author(s): Dumitru LăcătușuSubject(s): History
Published by: NEW EUROPE COLLEGE - Institute for Advanced Studies
Keywords: Alexandru Drăghici; narratives of political violence; Securitate; communist repression; justifications
Summary/Abstract: At the Plenum session of the CC of the RCP of April 1968, Alexandru Drăghici, minister of Internal Affairs and head of Securitate between 1952-1965 was identified as the main responsible for the crimes and abuses that took place in the Gheorghiu-Dej era. With this occasion, he and his associates have produced an important corpus of documents regarding the political violence in Romania. This study analyzes those narratives with the purpose of identifying the main justifications given by Drăghici and others officers of Securitate for what they had done.
Journal: New Europe College Stefan Odobleja Program Yearbook
- Issue Year: 2018
- Issue No: 2017+18
- Page Range: 177-207
- Page Count: 31
- Language: English
