Aspazia Otel Petrescu was first imprisoned when she was 25 years old, in 1948, by the communist regime that came to power in Romania with the help of the Soviet Army. She was liberated after 14 years. In this volume, she recounts a spiritual experience that helped her through a challenging prison incident. The book adds to the literature about communist prisons that has appeared in English in recent years. Aspazia Otel Petrescu wrote several volumes in her native Romanian, and this is the first translation of her work in English. (Translation of the book "Cu Hristos in celula" by Aspazia Otel...
Aspazia Otel Petrescu was first imprisoned when she was 25 years old, in 1948, by the communist regime that came to power in Romania with the help of ...
The sovietization of Bessarabia during and after WWII implied in part its Russification. The communist regime fought fiercely against anything that meant Romanian identity: the Romanian language, the Latin alphabet, or Romanian national history. Beginning with the first year of occupation, the Romanian elite - priests, civil officers, politicians, and professors - were arrested and persecuted. Tens of thousands were assassinated or sent in the Soviet Gulag or prisons. The book presents six testimonies of men and women who were sent into the Gulag. The stories are often dark, but they...
The sovietization of Bessarabia during and after WWII implied in part its Russification. The communist regime fought fiercely against anything that...
