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This material does not have the role of establishing fault or exonerating someone from responsibility for their deeds, but only of putting all the confusion of the last days in a correct historical context. Because, as the President of the United States, Harry Truman, said, a public office is not a privilege, but an honor. And those who aspire to this honor must undergo a rigorous examination of their lives. But this examination must be done correctly, because as we expect an impeccable diagnosis from a doctor, the journalist must look for the real facts.
It all started with an episode of the series “Pain Memorial” made by Lucia Hossu Longin, taken, without verification, by many sites. In essence, it was about the father of the new PSD candidate, “another four-primary alumnus Alexandru Rafila became the commander of Arad Security who executed 27 peasants, amidst the villages that opposed collectivization. , he confessed to me that in those years “this revolutionary stamp would have stopped me ‘… (ep. 6 of the series)”, as he stated on the TVR website.
Alexandru Rafila -son also confirmed that “his father was born in 1920 in the USSR, but he claimed that his grandfather worked in the army, was imprisoned in Russia and when he returned home, he returned with a son – the father o”.
Rafila Alexandru: the father was in the army and fought at the front until 1945, that is, until he was 25 years old.
“Later he was sent to a school … probably, as I understand it,” Alexandru Rafila said, explaining how his father came to work for the Securitate.
“He was expelled from the Securitate and was expelled from the Communist Party because he was unfit for the tasks he had to perform. Probably at that time there was great pressure 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, ”Alexandru Rafila explained to Digi 24.
About the way he chose his profession, Alexandru Rafila said that his father was a model: “Yes, my father was a medical student, he finished the second Faculty of Medicine, in 1960. At 40 years old for years. 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 to which you refer occurred in the years 48-49 ”, said Alexandru Rafila.
CNSAS file traces
Interestingly, I looked for references in the CNSAS Archive about Alexandru Rafila, the father of the current candidate and found that he was transferred to the reserve in June 1949, from the position of Head of Service in the TIMIŞOARA Regional Directorate, Arad County Service, with the rank of major (for which he was the head of Security of the city of Arad, in 1948-1949 Security was organized in Regional Directorates, which were subordinate to the County Services).
Going further in the thread of the revelations, I looked for the episode of the Memorial of Pain in which Lucia Hossu Longin does an interview with Alexandru Rafilata. An announcement is presented from the beginning: “By address 136 of December 28, 1990 to the Arad Military Prosecutor’s Office, AFDPR Arad denounces Alexandru Rafila as the moral author of the assassination in 1947-1949 of many opponents of the anti-communist resistance and the period of collectivization “. What do you mean moral author, I thought? It was too mild a term for the madness of 1990 … He seemed to be the author of the massacre in the Crisului Alb Valley. So I decided to follow the thread of the report and corroborate it with historical facts.
“Honestly, I don’t know anything! I was Arad’s head of Security until May 1949, when I was dismissed for inappropriateness. I did not enter Security, but I did enter Security”, says Alexandru Rafila-father in the aforementioned interview. Partially false ! In August 1948 it seems General Directorate of Popular Security, established as a result of Decree no. 221. Then he returns and explains that he worked in State Security, then he was transferred to Security.
The Crișu Alb massacre
We got to the moment the White Crisis Massacre. Lucia Hossu-Longin’s voice is clear: “Four settlements in the northwest of Romania, linked to the anti-communist resistance movement in Bihor and Arad, will not collectively do so. In Apateu, Berechiu, Șomoșcheș and Șepreuși there is a front against destruction. Overturned security cars, broken phone lines, trampled red flags, burned files. The first barricades are raised by placing stands with the fangs facing upwards. The four communes were attacked simultaneously on the night of July 31, 1949. “
STOP! In July 1949, Alexandru Rafilafather was no longer Arad’s head of Security, he had been in reserve since June 1, 1949. Therefore, he cannot be guilty of participating in the atrocities of Crisul Alb.
In fact, official history records a completely different date from the intervention in force: August 1, 1949.
“On the afternoon of August 1, 1949, the Radna border guards battalion intervened, restoring order in the communes of Şomoşcheş, Apateu and Berechiu. In the commune of Şepreuş, 40 militiamen and 40 border guards acted, exchanges took place shots were fired and two border guards were wounded. No fire was fired in the other communes. In the commune of Şepreuş, 57 inhabitants were arrested, being executed at the place Mihai Iancicău, 50 years old, Teodor Pârvu, 36 years old, Ioan Stana, 66 years and Ioan Pârvu, with an age not specified by the authorities.
In Şomoşcheş commune, 49 were arrested and Ioan Faur, 54, and Gheorghe Margine, 43, were executed there. Simion Stana, 28, Ioan Mangu, 34, and Petru Moţ, 53, were arrested in the commune of Apateu and executed on the spot. 19 people were arrested in the Berechiu commune, Gheorghe Ilonca, which has been executed for 20 years. (18) The corpses of those executed in front of the entire community were left exposed in the street, staying there for two days and two nights, with the prohibition not to approach them, or even to cover them. The families of those executed, numbering a total of 33 people, were evacuated from the four communes. (19)
On the night of August 3-4, 1949, two more peasants from Apateu were shot on the grounds that they had tried to escape the escort. They are Aurel Moţ and Gheorghe Maliţa, 23 years old, with an unspecified age. (20) On August 11, the fugitive Mihai Haiduc from Berechiu, also of unspecified age, who was hiding in the corn for fear of the authorities, was also killed. (21) Thus, the total number of victims in the county of Arad rises to 13. ”, is mentioned in the History of Banat.
The confessions of Alexandru Rafila – the father
“I believed in communism. I worked at CFR as a worker and there were workers who fought illegally for workers’ rights. You know how it was then. I did not know what the functions of the director of the Securitate were. I also wanted to retire when I saw that I was not they sent them to political school ”, says Alexandru Rafila-father.
In connection with the deaths in Arad, Lucia Hossu-Longin confronts Alexandru Rafila-father, telling him that he was identified as the author of the crimes against Moțiu Teodor and Petran Ioan in 1949, at the time of the deportations. And they were killed without trial, the author claims. A former political prisoner recalls being forced by him to witness the torture of the detained Zarea Stefan, a Social Democratic leader. Who died after the beatings.
“The dead did not happen in my time. It’s true, one of them, Zarea Stefan, was arrested in my time, but I didn’t investigate him. He didn’t die from the beatings, he was sick. And he was hospitalized and died in the hospital. I did not witness the torture, but it is possible… He may have been beaten, or threatened, moral and physical torture ”, says Alexandru Rafila-father. “I did not do such a thing, but it is said here too,” he says, showing Lucia Hossu Longin the document he cited. “Not you, but could your subordinates do it?” Hossu-Longin asks. Admit it, yes you could, but
About Zarea Ștefan, Rafila affirms that he was a bit alcoholic, breathed with difficulty, had edema and that is why he died. Although he was only 30 years old. It is hard to believe that in 1948-1947 the political opponents of the Communists died well …
The full interview can be seen HERE.
