Pitești Prison
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Pitești Prison was a penal facility in Pitești, Romania, best remembered for the reeducation experiment which was carried out between December 1949 and September 1951, during Communist party rule. The
Entrance to the former prison
Memorial plaque at the prison's entrance
Pitești Prison monument
Ana Pauker
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Ana Pauker was a Romanian communist leader and served as the country's foreign minister in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Ana Pauker became the world's first female foreign minister when entering off
Pitești Prison
…for 22 deaths during the period, 16 of them with documented participation in the "re-education". After the purging of Romanian Communist Party leader Ana Pauker, the experiment was halted because the Romanian communist regime was sidelining its hardline Stalinist leaders. The overseers were put on trial; while…
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Pauker and Gheorghiu-Dej in Bucharest, March 1945
Vasile Luca, Constantin Pîrvulescu, Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu, Pauker, Teohari Georgescu, Florica Bagdasar, and Gheorghe Vasilichi at a Romanian Communist Party meeting in October 1945
Antonín Zápotocký, Petru Groza, and Pauker in 1948