Tudor Sepeanu – mărirea şi decăderea unui ofiţer al Securităţii
Tudor Sepeanu – The Rise and Fall of a Securitate officer

Summary/Abstract: The Head of the Capital’s “Securitate” between 1948 and 1950 was the officer known by the name of Tudor Sepeanu. He was also Head of the Inspection Service within the General Directorate of Penitentiaries between 1950 and 1951. This service had an essential role in organizing the violent “reeducation” of political convicts from Pitesti Penitentiary and other detention places from the communist Gulag in Romania. The current study proposes an overview of Tudor Sepeanu’s biography in a 4 sections structure that contains the most relevant information about the latter’s professional activity before and after August 23rd 1944. You will find information about the times when Tudor Sepeanu was a student next to his professional trajectory/path between the two World Wars in the first section, followed by information indicating/(referring to) Sepeanu as a war criminal during the second world war, analyzed in the second section. The third section describes Sepeanu’s rise after August 23rd 1944, while the last one is an image of his activity within the Inspection Service and analyzes the “Pitesti-type” reeducation and his role in the violent action led by political convicts/prisoners from Pitesti penitentiary and other places of political detention from Communist Romania. The current study represents a critical perspective over Tudor Sepeanu’s own information given during his criminal law investigation led between 1953 and 1957. Possible “explanations” for Tudor Sepeanu’s complete change from an apparently normal person, (no different from any other of his contemporaries) into a tortionary, according to the main theories studying these types of metamorphoses may be found in our conclusions. The sources used for the current study/article are archive documents, mainly those regarding Sepeanu’s criminal law investigation between 1953 and 1957 and also documents created by the former Securitate regarding his role in the Pitesti-type reeducation. We also took into consideration some relevant pieces of information found in the already published studies/articles about the former Security officer.

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