The first step was the completion of statistical tables showing the origin of those imprisoned at Suceava. Their property. education. Political affiliations. And other items of personal information. The purpose of these statistics. Was to show that the great majority of students were merely victims of the bourgeois reactionary education and that. Considering their social status. Or “social class” as Communists say. Their place was not in the ranks of those opposing “Socialism” but. On the contrary. Alongside the Communists.
If for reasons of opportunism
Some peasants went along at the beginning of this indoctrination. The great majority of the university students reacted against the “re-education.” Propaganda with so firm a rejection that no doubt was left in the minds of the “teachers” that such methods were futile. Neither promises of liberation from prison as a reward for “re-education”. Nor phone number list promises that they would be given. Holdings from the land that had been taken for distribution. To the peasants could shake the convictions of the prisoners. They knew the realities of Communist rule too well to degrade themselves by playing in such a farce.
To the lectures based on Communist
Pamphlets which political officers placed at the disposal of Turcanu and his accomplices. the students responded with ridicule and mockery. The Communist songs in “meetings of political re-education” were turned into improvised parodies so clever and devastating that after a time the political officers forbade Turcanu to allow singing at all.
Practically speaking. the documents related to the “free info” mailings “re-education” period at Suceava ended in failure. and Turcanu’s activity was suspended when the prisoners were at last transferred from Suceava. That preliminary phase had been designed simply to test the “fanaticism” of those who were thus selected for the real experiment that was to begin at Pitesti.
Since they came from the same region
Many of the students at Suceava had been acquainted even before they entered the university and most of them knew one another. so contacts were easily kept. At Pitesti. however. they were mingled with hundreds of students from all the virgin islands mobile data other universities of Romania.
The various groups thus assembled at Pitesti were of quite diverse social backgrounds and political principles. The great majority of them were either Legionaries.[1] or members of the National Peasant Party; a few were members of the Liberal Party. and there were several groups united only by their loyalty to the monarchy.