Imaginea prizonieratului sovietic
The Image of Soviet Captivity

Summary/Abstract: During aur investigation we tried to come closer to a special event such as captivity regime in the Soviet Union during and at the end of the Second World War. I was interested in it even in my childhood when I heard my neighbour, a veteran of the Second World War, telling about those things; in his words I found something different from the history book: a vivid history. That time I was almost able to live what I heard. That is why, beside bibliography I interviewed 11 veterans and ex-prisoners of Soviet Union. Then I debated on topics like: historical context in which Romania joined the Second World War; the Romanian attitude towards captivity; captivity and the road to the camp; life in the camp (accomodation, work, food, hygeene, religion, the process of ideological education) and, at last, going home. To the end, studying all these facts, I was able to conclude that not only the Nazi system but also the Soviet communist one produced extermination camps. The difference consists of the fact that Nazi camps were "exposed" and renegated while Soviet "creations" were, deliberately or not, ignored or even forgotten.

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