Alexandrul Rafila: Until June 1949, my father worked in the Securitate apparatus. He was not involved in the peasant massacre / I don’t see where it is my fault that my father’s son is – Essential

• Much of the information is not true. My father graduated from the School of Medicine in 1960, I was born in 1961, and the events you are referring to took place in 1948-1949.
• (Did your father work in the security apparatus?) Yes, he worked until June 1949.
• I don’t know many things, I found out about these things when I was a student.
• (Is your father the same one that appears in the CNSAS documents that says he was born in 1920 in the USSR?) Yes, it is true. My grandfather was a prisoner in Russia. He worked in the army, he was in prison and he returned with a son from Russia, my father.
• First of all, that movie, The Pain Memorial, with my father was not objective. Because, beyond the things he did and with which I do not agree – that is, obviously, belonging to the Securitate at that time from my point of view is absolutely reprehensible – he put in parallel a film about the murder of some peasants of Arad county. That happened two and a half months after my father was expelled from the Securitate, expelled from the PCR, he was a member of the party.
• And then my father suffered, he was expelled from the School of Medicine for six months, because they considered him an enemy.
• So things are different, but Mrs. Hossu-Longin probably put two elements together, the fact that my father was in Arad County Security until June 1949 and presented the movie killing peasants in August 1949. Or these two things are not superimposable. He was not involved in that massacre.
• Yes, my father was a medical student, he graduated from the School of Medicine in 1960. At age 40. He was not a student when he worked for the Securitate in Arad County. He studied in Bucharest between 1954 and 1960.
• My father was a military man, he fought at the front until 1945, that is, until he was 25 years old, then he was sent to a school …
• I told you, these things I only found out when I was a student, when I was in my 20s. It affects me, of course, emotionally, but I don’t see where my fault lies because I am my father’s son. How this is presented seems to me absolutely unacceptable.
• It was a concerted attack, obviously, and it is related to the political choice I had.

In recent days, the information appeared in public space that the doctor Alexandru Rafila would be the son of Alexandru Rafila, born in 1920 in the USSR and responsible for the armed massacre in the Crisului Alb Valley at the end of the 1940s.

Alexandru Rafila, director of TVR Lucia Hossu-Longin, also spoke about this: “Another graduate of four primary classes, Alexandru Rafila, became the commander of the Securitate in Arad who executed 27 peasants, in the middle of the villages that were they opposed collectivization. Those years “with that stamp of a revolutionary would have stopped me” … (ep. 6 of the series) “.