Răstoaca is a commune 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 (Siret), Milcov River, is in Muntenia. Demographics At the 2021 Romanian census, 2 ...

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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,

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

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, 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

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; according to Andrei Muraru, head of the

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

References

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