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Fenomenul Piteşti - un experiment menit să impună dubla gândire
The Piteşti Phonomenon - An Experiment Meant to Impose the Double Thinking

Author(s): Gheorghe Boldur-Latescu
Subject(s): History
Published by: România Liberă

Summary/Abstract: Article about the "re-education through torture" - a tragical episode that happened in the Romanian communist prisons between 1949 and 1953. The article offers a short remembering of facts and analyses the phenomenon (presenting the points of view of the communist government's and of the ones that were arrested at the time), analysis of the behaviour of the "re-educated people", and different stages of the process.

  • Issue Year: 2002
  • Issue No: 319
  • Page Range: 2-3
  • Page Count: 2
  • Language: Romanian