Spiru Blănaru (en)

Spiru Blănaru’s message to the Romanian people

On 16 January 1949, a law was passed that provided for the death penalty for anyone found to be fighting against the state and causing deaths in the ranks of the Security Service forces. All we had left was to fight to the death. On 23 January 1949 I went to Spiru Blănaru to discuss what we should do. We were expecting a major attack by the Security Service forces. We arrived there, led by Tudor Ruset, my courier. The group was based on the Tomnacica hill, north-east of Teregova. It’s about 7km there. Slatina-Timiș is 15 km away. The […]

Spiru Blănaru – an everlasting living light

Spiru Blănaru joined the Legion at an age when feelings were vibrating strongly, when the heart, this antenna that never fails to be objective, took the place of reason. His first Legionary school was in the fraternities of the cross. His tutors were: Ovidiu Găină, Bădia Dumitru Leontieș, the Rahmistruc brothers, Lututovici, Vasile Posteucă, Vasile Iasinschi. Their education was not without living examples. He followed in their footsteps with the zeal and desire to surpass himself in an immense struggle, which would culminate in the ultimate dedication. The war found his soul warmed up for this confrontation, to drive the […]

Fragments of memories from the hero Spiru Blănaru’s outlawry

I met Spiru Blănaru in a sunny spring, with trees in blossom. The war was over, the German armies were retreating from our front, the Russian armies were advancing. A world had been turned upside down, everything that had been built up in the spiritual and material world had been torn down. Nothing corresponded to what our parents had taught us: school, religion. Spiru had been wounded on the Russian front. After his recovery he was sent to an officers’ school in Lugoj. It was there that the end of the war caught up with him. From there he joined […]