Alexandru Dincă (14 November 1936 – 1998) was a Romanian

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, opponent of the communist regime.

Biography

Dincă was born in

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...

on 14 November 1936. After finishing high-school he became a student at the Faculty of Law of the

University of Bucharest The University of Bucharest ( ro, Universitatea din București), commonly known after its abbreviation UB in Romania, is a public university founded in its current form on by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Princel ...

. While in his second year, Dincă actively participated in the

Bucharest student movement of 1956 The events in Poland which led to the elimination of that country's Stalinist leadership and the rise to power of Władysław Gomułka on 19 October 1956 provoked unrest among university students in Eastern bloc countries. The state of unrest in ...

, being one of the main organizers of the protest rally scheduled in the University Square on 5 November 1956. He was arrested the next day. His interrogation was carried out by

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Constantin Popescu, captain Gheorghe Enoiu,

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Iosif Moldovan,

Vasile Dumitrescu,

Gheorghe Vasile,

Constantin Oprea and second lieutenant Nicolae Urucu. He was tried in the "Mitroi group" of opponents and was convicted on 19 April 1957 and sentenced to 6 months imprisonment by sentence No. 534 of the

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of Bucharest. He was released after having completed his sentence. Dincă resumed his studies and graduated from the

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. He worked as an economist at the Bucharest Road Construction Enterprise. After the

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he joined the National Liberal Party, being appointed director of the "Viitorul" newspaper, the official daily of the party. He died of a heart attack in 1998.

References

*''Aduceri aminte şi realitate'' (Raport SRI din 1991, Arhiva CNSAS - România Liberă - Ediţie Specială 2007 {{DEFAULTSORT:Dinca, Alexandru 1936 births 1998 deaths Journalists from Bucharest Romanian anti-communists Romanian dissidents Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies alumni National Liberal Party (Romania) politicians 20th-century journalists