Destiny During Repression. Case Study: Nicolae Rădulescu

The article discusses the case of the student Nicolae Rădulescu, one of the five young people who were included in the Burning Bush (Rugul Aprins) group and arrested in 1958 and seeks to reconstruct the facts by gathering the data from the documents of the former Secret Police and the testimony of the victim, the only current survivor of the group. The reading of the interrogation minutes and the numerous informative notes that can be found in the files drawn up in his name from the Informative and Criminal Fund, constitutes, from a witness' perspective, eloquent evidence of the tragedy of the situation, of the mystification and distortion of reality, of the fabrication of a profile in line with the purposes of the Secret Police. Thus, the analysis of the documents in the CNSAS Archive related to the arrest, investigation and trial provides an idea of the specific mechanisms of an oppressive regime in its struggle to annihilate any form of opposition or resistance. The efforts of student Nicolae Rădulescu to preserve dignity will inevitably bring to our attention the concept of the value of the human being in the context of a totalitarian regime. Another direction of the present article is the pursuit of the legitimacy of the fight waged by Nicolae Rădulescu in the name of preserving the Christian identity in a state that guaranteed religious freedom through the Constitution.