Arsenescu Gheorghe (en)

A legendary hero: Colonel (r) Gheorghe Arsenescu

The cloak of oblivion seems to have fallen over the sacrifices and sufferings of those who took part in the resistance movement in the Mioritic lands of Muscel. Decades have passed since then, wounds that have healed in the great suffering of the Romanian people. The revolution of December 1989 ushered in a new era in the country’s political life, but the scars of those decades of communist oppression are still visible. Most of the victims of that vile regime have passed into eternity. Today’s free society refuses to remember their suffering. Faced with communist oppression after the abolition of […]

The “Terrorist” Gheorghe Arsenescu, a precious man devoted to the point of sacrifice to his country and his nation

Yes, the man who was labelled a “terrorist” by a crooked communist military tribunal was my husband. And he was a real man. And a great Romanian. Who gave himself selflessly for his country and for the people of Romania. He was born in 1907, on 31 May, in the same town as me, in Câmpulung Muscel. As if by destiny, he came from a family of patriots and fighters. His father had fought in the 1916-1918 war of rebellion, returned home sick and died early. And of the six children his wife – the mother of my future husband […]

Something about Colonel Arsenescu

A brigade of peasants from Arges, led by their priest (I forgot his name), worked alongside the priests from Olt. In the midst of the propaganda for collectivisation, they had the inspiration to overturn the car in the ditch with the chief responsible for this action, who was none other than Comrade Ceausescu. Their morale was high and their determination showed that they came from the land where an Arsenescu, or the Arnăuțoiu brothers, or Elisabeta Rizea from Nucșoara had risen up in armed resistance. Also in the garden¹ I met, helpless and with a wooden leg, the one who […]