Danube–Black Sea Canal
Bârzotescu was arrested in April 1946 in Sibiu and was investigated by the Ministry of Interior authorities in the fall of 1947, in the trial of Iuliu Maniu. He was arrested on June 14, 1950, and sent to forced labor camps (Saligny, Peninsula, Midia) along the Danube–Black Sea Canal. He was freed on October 27, 1953 from the Castelu labor camp.