Gheorghe Pintilie
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Gheorghe Pintilie was a Soviet and Romanian intelligence agent and political assassin, who served as first head of the Securitate. Born as a subject of the Russian Empire in Tiraspol, he was briefly e
Romanian peasant killed for resisting land collectivization, ca. 1949
Interior of Jilava Prison, site of Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu's execution
Skulls of Ștefan Foriș and two other of Pintilie's victims, dug up and photographed during the rehabilitation of 1968
The Romanian anti-communist resistance movement began in 1944 as Soviet troops entered Romania and was active from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s, with isolated individual fighters remaining at large
Gheorghe Pintilie
…himself with men of working-class origin, who became notorious for their brutality, but also their overall incompetence—particularly in dealing with the anti-communist guerillas. Both inside and outside the PCR, Pintilie himself was remembered as an uneducated alcoholic; his preference for orality ensured that the more compromising…
Teodor Șușman – anticommunist resistant of Apuseni Mountains
Ion Gavrilă Ogoranu, leader of Făgăraș Mountains movement
Lieutenant Toma Arnăuțoiu, leader of "Haiducii Muscelului", one of the most long-lived groups
Memorial in Teregova commemorating anti-communist partisans in the Banat Mountains and the Mehedinți Mountains