Bucharest exhibition spotlights investigations of Romania’s Communist-era political police Securitate
A.REST 1989, an exhibition reconstructing the world of the 1989 criminal investigations of Romania’s political police Securitate, will open at the National Museum of History of Romania on June 16.
Simona Fodor · Journalist
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A.REST 1989, an exhibition reconstructing the world of the 1989 criminal investigations of Romania’s political police Securitate, will open at the National Museum of History of Romania on June 16.
The exhibition makes public for the first time audio-video recordings from interrogations and prison cells, as well as original artifacts from the Securitate Detention Center and pieces of criminal evidence. Among them is the printing press used by the group formed around Petre Mihai Băcanu to produce the clandestine newspaper România. Confiscated by Securitate on the night of January 24, 1989, the press was recovered and brought back to Romania for this exhibition, after more than 27 years abroad.
