The Ursu case - decriminalization of Ceausescu security acts
The Ursu case - decriminalization of Ceausescu security acts

The Ursu case - decriminalization of Ceausescu security acts

Summary/Abstract: The "Ursu" case is emblematic of the efforts of people in the old and new system to cover up crimes committed against those who disagreed with the communist regime. After more than three decades of post-communism, the Ceausescu security (Securitate) is once again presented in the public arena as an institution that has brought together patriots, "heroes on the invisible front", who have defended Romania from all the evils of the earth. In this long process of re-legitimization of a criminal institution, the "Ursu case" has been and still remains a problem, because its resolution depends on the return to the public arena of the criminals of the communist state as guarantors of the salvation of the nation, which they save from everything but themselves. The decision by which the supreme court acquitted the former Securitate officers who caused the death of the dissident is aimed at exonerating the entire Ceausescu security apparatus of any crime, since it establishes, despite the regulations in force, that there was no conflict between the repressive apparatus and part of the population in Ceausescu Romania. Covering up the crimes of the Securitate opens the way to falsifying history and re-legitimizing the repressive Ceausescu apparatus.

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