Iosif Capotă (1912-1958)
Iosif Capotă (1912-1958)
Author(s): Cosmin BudeancăSubject(s): History, Oral history, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Special Historiographies:, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studiul Totalitarismului
Keywords: Iosif Capotă; Romanian anticommunist movement; repression; National Peasant Party;
Summary/Abstract: This article is a short presentation of Iosif Capotă’s biography. He was born on January 24, 1912, in Mărgău (Cluj County). During the Interwar period, he was an active member of the Romanian National Peasant Party. Once the Communist regime took over in Romania the authorities started to pursue him. He went into hiding between 1947 and 1957. Together with Doctor Alexandru Dejeu, he produced anti-communist manifestos that encouraged the population to resist the abuses provoked by the new regime. He was arrested on December 7, 1957, investigated, trialled and condemned to death. The sentence was carried out in Gherla Penitentiary, on September 2, 1958. Even if the group Capotă-Dejeu had a discreet, less provocative attitude, compared to other anti-communist groups active in that period, their actions were important as they kept the hope of change alive among the population.
Journal: Arhivele Totalitarismului
- Issue Year: XXVII/2019
- Issue No: 3-4
- Page Range: 338-341
- Page Count: 4
- Language: Romanian
- Content File-PDF