Trecutul sub lupă: Istoricul Constantin Kiriţescu urmărit de Securitate
The past under the magnifying glass: the historian Constantin Kiriţescu under the eyes of the Security

Summary/Abstract: The author of a highly regarded synthesis on Romania's participation in the First World War, Constantin Kirițescu (1876-1965), was investigated by the Securitate in 1945 following a denunciation, accused of being "guilty of the country's disaster" under the legislation enacted after the Second World War. However, he was removed from the criminal investigation and found not guilty.In 1957, he was investigated and arrested again, this time accused of possessing and disseminating prohibited writings containing anti-communist and anti-Soviet ideas in two of his manuscripts—one a memoir and the other about Romania's participation in the Second World War. Despite this, he was once again removed from criminal prosecution, and the confiscated manuscripts were returned to him. The first manuscript was published in 1979, while the second was only published after the Romanian Revolution of December 1989. The persecutions faced by Constantin Kirițescu are emblematic of the fate of the generation that achieved the Great Union of 1918.

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