Beatings and torture: the Securitate response to the beginning of the revolt against Communist rule - Museum of Communist Terror

Beatings and torture: the Securitate response to the beginning of the revolt against Communist rule

This is an excerpt from a longer video on the Timisoara Uprising in Romania which was the beginning of the revolt against the Communist government led by Nicolae Ceaușescu. The coming video will feature three witnesses and participants in the uprising. It will be published in the next few months. This short excerpt features Árpád Gazda, a peaceful dissident. He was arrested by the Securitate, the secret police, and beaten up.

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