At Mişcarea de Rezistență, Marina Constantinoiu and Istvan Deak continue their long investigative series Frontieriştii (The Border People) launched on March 15, 2016 and documenting the atrocities committed against those who tried to cross Romania’s closed borders between 1949 and 1989. In their September 30, 2016 installment—In 1975, State Security Accused the Border Guards of Covering Up…
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How to (Not) Kill and Bury Your History
Nobody had died there, an elderly woman from Orşova recently told the journalist. Nobody had died there, it was all legends. “It’s been more than 26 years since the Revolution, and Romania doesn’t remember them anymore. Or doesn’t want to remember,” writes Marina Constantinoiu, the journalist at Mişcarea de Rezistență who, together with her colleague Istvan Deak,…