The failure of the “Pitești” type re-education in Târgu Ocna
At Targu-Ocna, re-education was not successful because it did not benefit from isolation and the element of surprise. A re-education floor was created, but everyone was vigilant. Among those proposed for torture was V.I. (Virgil Ionescu, after Aristide Lefa), a thoroughbred intellectual with an excellent philosophical and literary background. He was held in high esteem by the students, being older than them. His re-education had begun in Pitești. There, one day, a blanket was put over his head and he was dragged by his headband into a cell with a single bed, on which two strangers in civilian clothes were […]