Victor Metea – Partizan at 18
“I knew what had happened in the USSR to the Church, the family and property” “Unhealthy” origins Victor grew up in the village of Ileni, near Făgăraș, attended high school in Sibiu and was then admitted to medical school in the capital. Before that, he had been rejected in Cluj because his father was a slave driver. He witnessed the violent arrests in the spring of 1948, when students and teachers considered dangerous to the new regime were eliminated. After leaving school, he sought work in Cluj, Brașov and Sibiu, but was rejected for the same reason: “unhealthy origins”. His […]