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The article consists of a series of testimonies that highlights the atrocities of the reeducation process that took place in Romanian Communist prisons and the role played by prisoners Radu Ciuceanu and Vintila Vais in making the Communist leaders acknowledge and stop the tortures. Puica Puhoci was a researcher at the National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism during 2006-2009. She died on 22 June 2019 as a result of an incurable disease. The publishing of this set of testimonies stands as a tribute to her strains to bring to light the tragedy of reeducation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following text is a protest sent to the Board of the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives regarding the public discussion that emerged after the declarations of two researchers of CNSAS questioning the responsibility of the penitentiary administration, and respectively the Communist authorities, in the horrid process of reeducation through torture. Radu Ciuceanu is an Honorable Member of the Romanian Academy, director of the National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism, former political prisoner, and a survivor of the reeducation process that took place during 1949-1952 in several Communist prisons in Romania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of the complex phenomenon of the reeducation in Communist prisons. The author gives several examples of political prisoners that underwent reeducation to prove that despite its magnitude reeducation was not irreversible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A sympathizer of the illegally RCP, Vintilă Vais was appointed a police inspector under the new political regime established in 1945. In 1948, he was removed from this position by the Securitate following different charges. In 1951 he was sentenced at 10 years in prison. He witnessed the horrors the political prisoners at Gherla penitentiary were subjected during the reeducation. After having long discussions with Radu Ciuceanu, a political prisoner at that time, he managed to send the superior party leadership a private message regarding the reeducation practices. That contributed decisively to the stopping of the reeducation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]