Model sovietic și inovație autohtonă în procesul „bandei de sabotori și diversioniști de la Canal”, 1952
Soviet Model and Domestic Innovation in the Political Trial of the “Gang of Saboteurs and Wreckers from the Danube – Black Sea Canal” in 1952

Summary/Abstract: In this study we outline the differences and similarities between Soviet-style political trials from the 1930s and the Trial of the “Gang of Saboteurs and Wreckers from the Danube – Black Sea Canal”, that took place in Constanța, Romania, during the Fall of 1952. There is no doubt that the engineers convicted in this show-trial were victims of political repression dictated by a specific scenario – one in which the technical intelligentsia, though not particularly close to the regime yet in its service, was held accountable for a fault that was not its own. Nevertheless, through their inaction and indifference toward the sufferings of the political prisoniers at the Canal, that worked under their guidance, they were passive spectators, even accomplices, to the immense injustice being committed there.

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