Recently arrived at Pitesti. Within the small circle of advocates of “re-education” at Suceava. A schism had occurred. Bogdanovici — son of the prefect of Iasi. County who had threatened to disclaim him and deprive him of his name if he refused re-education .Continued to champion a system of re-education by persuasion. Limited to Communist ideological lectures and study of printed brochures supplied by the prison administration.
He later confessed. just before he was executed. Therefore, that his aim was to limit brainwashing to theoretical discussions and thus. By averting brutality. Protect the students from compromising themselves; he hoped. He said. To deceive the organizers of the experiment and to tergiversate in anticipation of possible liberation.
On the other hand Turcanu and Titus
Therefore, Leonida professed the necessity of a system of “re-education by force”. a system which by its very nature was elastic and phone number list unrestricted. And which permitted any means for attaining its objective. It is. Of course. Understood that no decision concerning. The means to be employed could have been made without a formal order from the prison’s administration. The proposal to use physical means was much more complicated than the Bogdanovici approach.
For its purpose was not simply torture in
order to elicit true or even the ever-expanding residue of reform darwinism fictitious confessions from individuals; its avowed purpose was to change the convictions of one thousand students hostile to the Communist regime. Turcanu and his collaborators would not have dared even to think of doing such a thing without knowing in advance that they had the total support of the Securitate and thus of the Communist Party. and it is not likely that they did more than pretend to advocate as their own a procedure they had been instructed to use.
Therefore, Just before he began to implement the “re-education by force.” Turcanu. we learned. had been visited several times by fax list emissaries from the Ministry of the Interior. with whom he held private discussions for hours on end. [3] Also. He himself was absent from. Therefore, Pitesti for days. and no one knew whither he had gone or for what purpose. What was the subject of his discussions and what promises he received could not be learned even by his closest collaborators. Once the tragedy began to unfold. his role appeared clearly and hideously. He was a simple agent carrying out an assigned mission.