1954: Eugen Turcanu, torturer

ExecutedToday.com ^ | December 17, 2014 | Headsman

[CheshireTheCat]

On this date in 1954, Eugen Turcanu and 16 other Romanian political prisoners were executed at Jilava prison.

Turcanu et al were noted as the truncheon arm of one of 20th century’s more blood-chilling torture programs, the Pitesti experiment. (Named for the facility where it began, Pitesti prison.)

As if taking Orwell’s 1984 as a paragon instead of a grim dystopian warning, the Pitesti experiment subjected several thousand political and religious dissidents to a savage course of ideological re-engineering. The object was to beat and brainwash undesirables into model Communists.

“Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation,” Orwell’s torturer-apparatchik O’Brien remarks in the novel. “Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”

Turcanu knew from the inside just what that sort of transformation entailed. He was by all appearances a proper Communist and a member of the right clubs thereto when, on the cusp of his 23rd birthday in 1948, he was arrested for a youthful prewar affiliation with the fascist Legionary movement.

He caught a harsh seven-year sentence but found his (short) life’s work in prison. His wheedling convinced wardens of his ideological suitability, and his Herculean physique suggested tasks that could only be entrusted to a co-founder of the Organization of Convinced Communist Detainees....

[Fido969]

savage course of ideological re-engineering. The object was to beat and brainwash undesirables into model Communists.

Sounds like what the Wokesters aspire to

[353FMG]

Let no one assume that, because it happened in communist Romania, it can never happen here.
Let people contemplate who is in charge and what happened to those who were found visiting the Capitol Building on Jan 6.

[MeganC]

Communism and socialism are always just one murder away from achieving utopia.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

"But no reader of the 21st century will be surprised that it was only the kapos like Turcanu who were punished for it once Stalin’s death relaxed the oppressive ideological terror in eastern Europe. While 22 prisoners were condemned (and 17 ultimately shot), the officers of Romania’s state police who had overseen them “suffered” things like reprimands and amnestied misdemeanor convictions."

Isn't it true. Here in the US the deep state is, for the most part, still walking around free.