The persecution of the university environment

The atheist persecution also affected the academic world. Hundreds of teachers at the universities of Bucharest, Iași and Cluj were forced to leave their jobs. According to Professor Victor Coroianu, at the Medical Faculty of the University of Cluj alone, 92 teaching staff – professors, directors of studies, assistants and preparators, “the elite of Cluj” – were dismissed, “most of them unemployed, without a guaranteed livelihood, and this on the eve of winter”. Many scientific and cultural personalities were thrown into prison. The famous philosopher Ion Petrovici, for example, was placed under forced residence at the beginning of June 1945, […]

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