Brașov 1989. Armata, Securitatea și revoluția
The Army, “Securitatea” and the Romanian Revolution of December 1989 in Brașov

Summary/Abstract: Although the Romanian revolution from December 1989 is one of the main subjects approached in the post-communist Romanian historiography, there are few studies that analyze the conduct of the revolution in certain town, others than Timișoara and Bucharest. The aim of this article is to fill this void by reenacting and analyzing the ongoing of the Romanian revolution in Brașov in the basis of unpublished archive sources: the documents created by the Military Persecutor’s Office as a result of the hearings of participants at the events from December 1989 in Brașov. The study highlights the measures taken by the authorities against the revolutionists, which contradicts the official version that the Securitate wasn’t involved in the repression of eventual protests, and also of courageous actions of the people from Brașov against the local communist authorities and in favor of the revolutionists from Timișoara.

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