Il potere dell'anima - Psicologia del martirio sotto il regime comunista: ,,Experimentul Piteşti”
Il potere dell'anima - Psicologia del martirio sotto il regime comunista: ,,Experimentul Piteşti”

Summary/Abstract: The present study entitled: Il potere dell'anima - Psicologia del martirio sotto il regime comunista: “The Piteşti Experiment” aims to provide a profound analysis of what one of the turning points in Romanian history meant, and obviously its Sovietization. The Sovietization of Romania (1945–1947) was not only a geopolitical transformation of the nation, but also an experiment aimed at establishing a totalitarian ideological architecture that, by destroying the old regime, created a “New Man”. In this social engineering scheme, the liquidation of Christians, long considered the critical conscience of the entire oppression of humanity, became categorical. Ecclesiastical institutions were to be liquidated, the Orthodox leadership was to be subjugated to the communist regime, and the Greek Catholic Church was to be banned. The fundamental objective was to eradicate the transcendent dimension and deconstruct the psychological and spiritual identity of the individual believer. The operative arm, the Securitate, with a team of experts in social psychology, had transformed the prisons of Pitești, Gherla and Târgu Ocna into true laboratories of institutionalized dehumanization. The goal was to completely annihilate the moral architecture of the person, forcing forced apostasy.

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