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- Title
FUGA DIN ROMÂNIA COMUNISTĂ PE CALEA AERULUI: TENTATIVA DE DETURNARE A UNUI AVION ÎN TÂRGU MUREȘ (1971).
- Authors
Iozsef, Truța Ferencz
- Abstract
After the Second World War and with the establishment of the communist regime, many Romanians, dissatisfied with the new regime, tried to leave the country. The fugitives most frequently chose the road or rail route, but there were also attempts to swim across the Danub or to cross the Black Sea with inflatable boats, and the bravest tried to hijack planes. Most of the fugitives paid with their lives or ended up in the dungeons of the Security and were imprisoned for decades. In the summer of 1971, seven young people from Târgu Mureș planned, in turn, to leave the country by hijacking a Tarom plane. The present paper aims to present their story from the communist Securitate archives.
- Subjects
YOUNG adults; INFLATABLE boats; RAILROADS; COMMUNISTS; PRISONS; WORLD War II
- Publication
Yearbook of the 'Gheorghe Sincai' Institute for Social Sciences & the Humanities of the Romanian Academy, 2022, Vol 25, p129
- ISSN
1454-5284
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.59277/icsugh.sincai.25.11