Having arrived at Aiud. during the search the engineer was asked from whence he came. When he uttered the word “Pitesti”. he was immediately isolated for several days. Later he was taken out. and I met him in the prison shop. He would riot tell me the reason for his isolation. The Aiud political officers knew what was happening in Pitesti. and the engineer dared not talk lest he suffer the consequences. Or perhaps he was at that time a simple robot who acted only at the command of the “politruks. ”
I asked the young man who had
Passed through Pitesti if he had met engineer Bolfosu previously. He told me they had gone through the “unmaskings” together and that he also had been sent to Aiud a little later. but that before leaving Pitesti they were specifically warned by the prison director not to talk. An indiscretion could cost them a return to Pitesti — if unmaskings were not to be started at Aiud as well — and thus a new passing through the awful ordeal.
My detention in the cellars of the Securitate of Constanta ended in May 1953. Following twenty months of inquisition I was sent to the Gherla prison to continue serving my sentence. I arrived there on the morning of May 6. I was immediately isolated. but in an hour or two another prisoner was introduced into the cell. He arrived job function email list from Bucharest. where he had been taken for a supplementary investigation. from Gherla. a month earlier. We knew each other. He asked me:
“Have you been here before?”
“Beware of the students as you would of Satan. If you do not. you shall experience very unpleasant surprises. And moreover. you will suffer much needlessly. ”
“Why. sir. is this the case? What have the students done. or rather. what has been done to them that they have reached such a state? You are not the first person to warn me. ”
“Personally I cannot explain it to you. Something you take care of your children you make sure to give them organic food has happened to them which for me is inexplicable. And I certainly know them. for it has not been long since I was a student myself. I simply cannot understand the nature of the profound transformations which were forcibly induced.
Yet torture alone cannot account for
their behavior. All of us have passed through the hands of the Securitate and. after some more or less serious lapses. we recovered. But the students persist on an infernal path. It is said they went through ‘unmaskings’. What the ‘unmasking’ consisted of. only time and perhaps the recovery of some students could explain to us. But I am wary. and that is why I advise prudence. ”
After fifteen days of quarantine. I was virgin islands mobile data taken to the prison’s shop for work. They put me on the night shift from six in the evening till six in the morning. The first prisoner I met there. or rather. to whom I was introduced by a supervisor. was a former student of philosophy. After he asked me the reasons for my condemnation and my place of origin — inevitable inquiries addressed to all newcomers in any prison — he told me with an impassive voice.