Prețul libertății
Subtitle: mărturii din comunism
By: Radu Cristea, Thomas Sears
Contributors: Cristea, Radu (Radu V.), author
Series: Mărturii; Mărturii (Editura Cetatea de Scaun)
Publisher: Editura Cetatea de Scaun
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Târgoviște
Language: rum
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9786065372481
Subjects: Political prisoners; Biography; Dissenters; Communism; History; Politics and government
Work titles: Faces of freedom, lives of courage
Description: Faces of Freedom, Lives of Courage is a fragment of communist Romania's history seen through the unique and shocking experiences of nine individuals. Leontina, a nineteen-year-old student who hides a letter addressed to Radio Free Europe that was thrust into her hands by an acquaintance who was being pursued by the Securitate. This naiveté leads to interrogation, beatings, torture and imprisonment in one of many of Romania's extermination camps. Razvan, a German professor who, at a great danger to himself, took pictures of the army firing on unarmed, peaceful demonstrators in Cluj Napoca on December 21, 1989. Grigore, a law student after WWII, who was imprisoned by the Securitate in an effort to eliminate 'resistance groups,' and beaten and tortured for a year before his official trial, which sentenced him to many years of hard labor. This book provides interviews of those above as well as 6 other individuals whose lives were drastically changed while living under communism and later under the vicious regime of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu.