The Danube-Black Sea Canal: the Memoiristic Recovery of the Communist Colonies from the years 1950-1953.

The present navigable Danube-Black Sea has little in common with the topic of the present study. Gheorghiu-Dej's project, initiated at the end of 1949, was in fact a place for the re-education of the anti-communist intellectuals and dissidents. Gone without a trace, under the works from the 70s, it remains a mythical, infernal place that has been reconstructed less from numbers and official documents, and more from the memoirs and the recollections of detainees. The shattered mirror of the recollections, which sometimes overlap, and sometimes diverge, reconstructs an approximate image of the incipient Romanian communism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]