Topic summary
Communist Romania
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Socialist Republic of Romania.
Many people were arrested, executed or died in custody under communist Romania, most during the Stalinist era of the 1950s, for political, economical, or other reasons. Tens or even hundreds of thousands were arrested, executed or died in custody, while judicial executions between 1945 and 1964 numbered 137, deaths in custody are estimated in the tens or hundreds of thousands.