Râmnicu Sărat Prison
In late November, he and thirteen other cadres, the Nicadori and Decemviri death squads, were ordered transferred to Jilava, but strangled on the way, in Tâncăbești.The first political prisoners, who arrived in the second half of 1947, were “saboteurs”: peasants who were unable to hand over quotas of livestock and grain, as well as members of non-communist parties from Râmnicu Sărat County.[5] In 1948-1949, an effort at “re-education” involved lecturing prisoners about the achievements of the Petru Groza government and the benefits of “people’s democracy”, reading progressive brochures together and leaving Marxist books in their cells.That year, the surviving defendants tried alongside Iuliu Maniu arrived: National Peasants' Party (PNȚ) affiliates Ion Mihalache, Ilie Lazăr, and Victor Rădulescu-Pogoneanu.A common criminal would leave rations at the cell door: typically, cornflour gruel in the morning, boiled vegetables with bits of gristle for lunch and a thin soup in the evening.Serious offenses, such as causing loud noises, were met with beatings and blows, especially by warden Alexandru Vișinescu [ro],[7] whose favorite punishment was whipping.Despite the prohibition, prisoners found ways to communicate, for example via a Morse Code during their walks: a single cough would represent a dot, a double, a dash.Jenică Arnăutu, a soldier and PNȚ member who had fought against the Communist regime in Bukovina, entered a hunger strike in July 1959, in order to gain admittance to a hospital.[13][14][15] The former prison is included in a restoration and enhancement project, with €9 million in funding provided by the European Commission through the National Rehabilitation and Resilience Plan.
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