How High Security Was at the End of Ceauşescu's Regime. Accurate Figures, Presented First by CNSAS
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In the autumn of 1988, while Romania was suffocated by food shortages and international isolation, the apparatus of repression of the communist regime reached the organizational peak. Ultrasecret documents extracted from researchers of the National Council for the Study of Security Archives (CNSAS) from the cabinet file of the last head of security, Iulian Vlad, today create a clear picture of the state security department (DSS). On 24 September…
Security, the repression apparatus of the communist regime, officially called the State Security Department (DSS), had nearly 15,000 employees at the end of the 1980s, shows new documents published on Monday by the National Council for the Study of the Archives of the State (CNSAS). The original documents, dated 24 September 1988, are found in a file found at the office of the Chief of Security, General Iulian Vlad and shows the exact size of th…
The National Council for the Study of the Archives of Security (CNSAS) made public Mondays, first, data on the size of Security at the end of the communist regime, specifically on 24 September 1988, about one year before the outbreak of the Revolution. [...]
The National Council for the Study of the Archives of Security made public Mondays, first, data on the size of Security at the end of the communist regime, specifically on 24 September 1988. In total 2,297 women, representing 15.70% of all employees, were included at that time in the Department of State Security. The Security dimension at the end of the communist regime. Accurate figures, first. [...]
New documents reveal the huge number of Ceauşescu's security officers. County statistics confirm an oppressive apparatus of shocking magnitude. New revelations bring to the public's attention the real size of the repressive apparatus of the communist period, highlighting how many employees actually had Security. Recent documents present a detailed map of officers and sub-officers [...] Article The real size of Communist terror. How many employee…
In order to obtain a complete and integrated image of the repressive system (Department of State Security - DSS) at the end of the communist regime (the documents submitted are dated 24 September 1988) we must corroborate the data from the two tables below.
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