Diktatúra a mindennapokban 3. Gellérd Imre mindennapi félelmei (1958–1959)
Imre Gellérd’s Everyday Fears under the Communist Dictatorship

Summary/Abstract: This article documents the changes Imre Gellérd’s (1920–1980) mentality suffered under the pressure of Romanian Communist power. The terror provoked the different stages of fear: fear fed by the slander of fellow ministers, feigning subjection to the power of the state, and the growing discrepancy between his inner reality and outer behaviour etc. Eventually Gellérd could not escape his fate. He was imprisoned. On September 11th, 1959, Captain Ferenc Páll of Cluj Province’s Department of State Security (Securitate) ordered his arrest. On the night of November 5th to 6th, after the Ministry for Home Affairs’ authorization, he was arrested from his Siménfalva (Șimonești) parish. On November 14th, 1959, the criminal investigation began, with the pretext that between 1956–1958 Gellérd wrote nationalistic, biased sermons against state rule.

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