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Alexandru Rafila confirmed, on Sunday night, on B1 TV, that his father worked in Arad in the Securitate apparatus until 1949, but says that much of the information that appeared in public space is not true and accuses of an attack politician destined to Damaged the public image because he decided to run for the PSD parliamentary elections.
Alexandru Rafila considers it reprehensible that his father worked for the Securitate, but stressed that the accusation that he participated in the repression of the revolt of some peasants from Valea Crisului Alb, in the summer of 1949, Security in June 1949, and the massacre of Peasants took place in August 1949.
“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 related to the political option I had, ”Alexandru Rafila declared on B1 TV.
“We are in a paradoxical situation, I have said it before: everyone has good intentions and tries to help clarify problems, improve the image of Parliament, change the mindset that people go to Parliament out of personal interest, not interest. public”. , whoever does this is automatically attacked or an attempt is made to exclude him. I don’t have to give up what I started, I don’t think having a Social Democratic option is a shame. But I think that intolerance and what is happening at the moment, the attempt to annihilate a person who has a public image and who could bring percentages in these elections, I think it is a lack of democracy and if we go into this. in other words, our country will never become a truly European country, ”said Professor Rafila.
He graduated from the School of Medicine at the age of 40.
After being expelled from the Securitate, his father came to Bucharest and studied medicine, but from here he was suspended for six months, being considered an “enemy element”, said Alexandru Rafila.
“Yes, my father was a medical student, he graduated from the School of Medicine in 1960. At 40 years old. He was not a student when he worked for the Securitate in Arad County. He studied in Bucharest between 1954 and 1960. (…) My father graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in 1960, I was born in 1961, and the events you are referring to occurred in the years 48-49 ”, said Alexandru Rafila .
He also confirmed that his father was born in 1920 in the USSR, but said that his grandfather worked in the army, was a prisoner in Russia and when he returned home, he returned with a son – his father.
And his father was in the army and fought at the front until 1945, that is, until he was 25 years old. “Later they sent him to a school … probably from what I understand,” said Alexandru Rafila, explaining how his father came to work for Security.
“He was expelled from the Securitate and was expelled from the Communist Party because he was not fit for the tasks he had to perform. Probably at that time there were great pressures to solve the problems related to collectivization and the fact that he could not put them into practice led to their exclusion from both the Securitate and the Romanian Communist Party ”, explained Alexandru Rafila.
Rafila: “There is no excuse to belong to such an organization”
He said he learned all this late from his father, when he was 20 years old and himself a student, and confessed that he had a rather “intolerant” reaction.
“At that time, as he lived in an oppressive regime, he was quite intolerant. Because, you see, somehow we were directly affected by what happened 30 years ago, I mean the time of 1980. He certainly had moments where he certainly regretted that, plus decided that he was affected too at some point – I do not want to apologize in any way, because there is no such excuse to belong to such an organization ”, said Alexandru Raflila.
On the other hand, the professor accuses the documentary “El Memorial del Dolor” of lack of objectivity, in which accusations are made about the alleged participation of his father in the repression of the peasant revolt.
“That movie, The Memorial of Pain, with my father it 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 something absolutely reprehensible: he put in parallel a film about the murder of peasants in Arad county. That happened two and a half months after my father was expelled from the Securitate, expelled from the Romanian Communist Party; 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 together two elements, the fact that my father was in Arad County security until June 1949 and presented the film of the murder of peasants in August 1949. These two things are not superimposable. He was not involved in that massacre, ”said Alexandru Rafila.
Professor Alexandru Rafila, president of the Romanian Society for Microbiology, has joined the PSD and will run for parliamentary elections on party lists. The announcement was made this Thursday by Marcel Ciolacu at a press conference. Later, in some places the information circulated that the teacher’s father, also called Alexandru Rafila, was part of the repressive apparatus of the communist regime.
On Sunday, the leader of the PSD, Marcel Ciolacu, warned Dr. Adrian Streinu-Cercel, after announcing his candidacy for the parliamentary elections on the PSD lists, to expect attacks against him and his family from now on, as happened with Professor Alexandru Rafila.
Editor: Luana Pavaluca
