Securitate
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The Department of State Security, commonly known as the Securitate, was the secret police agency of the Socialist Republic of Romania. It was founded on 30 August 1948 from the Siguranța with help and
Ion Mihai Pacepa in 1975
Repressive system in Romania and Moldova, 1946–1989
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
Securitate
…Brigada Mobilă (the "Mobile Brigade"), was led until 1948 by NKVD colonel Alexandru Nicolschi. The first Director of the Securitate was NKVD general Gheorghe Pintilie (born Panteleymon Bodnarenko, nicknamed "Pantiușa"). Alexandru Nicolschi (by then a general) and another Soviet officer, Major General Vladimir Mazuru…
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