Sighet Prison & ‘Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance’. The cell where the famous Romanian historian Gheorghe I. Bratianu was imprisoned for twenty-four months and eventually died in this cell in April 1953.

The Memorial Sighet is a reminder of the atrocities committed by the communist regime – for years the people had been brain-washed to create the so-called “New Man” through the rewriting of history and poisoning the memories of generations. Moral and civic values could only be recovered if the collective consciousness is duly recuperated. Sighet prison was the first of many political prisons set up in Stalinist times and because it was where the country’s political, spiritual and cultural elite of the pre-war democracy were exterminated during Ceausescu’s obscene “Golden Epoch”.

Sighetu Marmaţiei, Marumures, Romania 10.10.15

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