A communist general and the paternal lesson from Elder Bâră
In order to carry out re-education activities, a club was set up in the prison where we could meet, read the newspapers “Scânteia” and “România liberă” and exchange opinions. Once a week, a lecturer would come from somewhere to give us a lecture on a subject in order to familiarise us with the “new socialist reality”. (…) I remember one very interesting incident. One day a fat general, his uniform ready to burst, saw an old man in the prison yard. – Old man, how long have you been in prison? he asked him. – Twenty years, General! – Well, […]