Răstoaca is a

commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to: Administrative-territorial entities * Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township ** Communes of ...

located in

Vrancea County Vrancea () is a county ( județ) in Romania, with its seat at Focșani. It is mostly in the historical region of Moldavia but the southern part, below the Milcov River, is in Muntenia. Demographics In 2011, it had a population of 340,310 and ...

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. It is composed of a single village, Răstoaca, and was part of Milcovul commune from 1968 until 2004, when it was split off. The commune is located in the southern part of the county, southeast of the county seat,

Focșani Focșani (; yi, פֿאָקשאַן, Fokshan) is the capital city of Vrancea County in Romania on the banks the river Milcov, in the historical region of Moldavia. It has a population () of 79,315. Geography Focșani lies at the foot of the Curv ...

History

In December 1957–January 1958, during the

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, the peasants from Răstoaca and nearby Suraia and Vadu Roșca resisted the

collectivization of agriculture Collective farming and communal farming are various types of, "agricultural production in which multiple farmers run their holdings as a joint enterprise". There are two broad types of communal farms: agricultural cooperatives, in which member- ...

. At one time, several dozen men from Răstoaca attacked a convoy of Communist Party members; the convoy, which included

Nicolae Ceaușescu Nicolae Ceaușescu ( , ; – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian communist politician and dictator. He was the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and the second and last Communist leader of Romania. He ...

, had come to convince the locals to join in the collectivization effort. Several peasants from the area who revolted were shot; 73 were tried and sentenced to long prison terms. Memorialist Florin Pavlovici witnessed how 30–40 men from Răstoaca were sent to the Periprava labor camp in the Danube Delta; according to

Andrei Muraru Dan-Andrei Muraru (born May 20, 1982) is a Romanian historian and diplomat. Muraru was born in Iași and grew up in the city's neighborhood. He graduated from the history faculty of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iași in 2005. He earned a ma ...

, head of the

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, this was an extermination camp, with a repressive, excessive, inhuman regime.

References

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