Romania’s Communist Time Border Jumpers: jam-packed in car-trunks and top of train-carts
It sounds odd, but there was a lean Romania: the one of defectors fleeing the country jam-packed in car-trunks, in containers, in false ceilings of [...]
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The Anton Frank case: “drowned” in the Danube River with strangling marks around his neck
Born in Romania, taking refuge in East Germany, drowning in Romania, fished out and buried in Bulgaria. This would be the sum-up of the tragic life [...]
Fleeing Romanians: How, Where and Why Romanians Had To Justify Their Whereabouts To Authorities
Few could travel to Western countries during the communist regime. One should have enjoyed a special status to achieve that; while traveling to [...]
The Jürgen Augst case: A GDR citizen apprehended at Jimbolia for attempting to flee to the West, via Romania
It was only in 2014, that is 40 years after the facts, that Jürgen Augst found the inner strength to talk about the events surrounding his failed [...]
The Leonte case: A Romanian student killed in Hungary, by a Romanian border-guard in pursuit
Student Gheorghe Leonte was shot dead on May 29, 1987, close to the Beba-Veche village, in the Triplex Confinium area (or triple border, in Latin), [...]
The story of Laurian Lodoabă, who lived to tell: „I swam in tar-like black waters. Suddenly, I had the fright of my life”
The malaise crept in, and got stronger by the day; and so did the thought to leave “the communist paradise”, explains Laurian Lodoabă the reason [...]
The Schmerschneider case: „Money would have set us free”
Only people living in those times may fully comprehend the reasons why citizens in the former Communist camp of nations put their lives on the line, [...]
Cum cooperau Armata și Securitatea pentru oprirea frontieriștilor
Ne exprimăm convingerea că pregătirile de evaziune din ţară ale unor persoane pot fi cunoscute şi prevenite din vreme, dacă fiecare ofiţer de [...]
Interesanta declarație a premierului Ciucă: ”Un stat puternic își asumă trecutul”. Ce ar fi să începem cu niște crime din trecutul recent?
Premierul Nicolae Ciucă a transmis un interesant și curajor mesaj de comemorare a unui tragic episod din istoria națională, [...]
Anul 1982: Mâna lungă a regimului ajungea la graniţa dintre Ungaria şi Austria
În timp ce în fața opiniei publice duceau o propagandă de asmuțire a popoarelor unul împotriva celuilalt, în spatele ușilor închise, [...]
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