Between 1944-1962, in almost all areas of Romania people grouped into armed resistance movements against the communists. The fighters wanted to oppose the communist regime, but also avoid an imminent arrest.

THE MUSCEL OUTLAWS

The story of the group led by the Arnăuțoiu brothers is representative of the courage and suffering that were emblematic of the armed anti-communist resistance in Romania. It was also one of the longest lived groups (March 1949- May 1958), active around the villages of Nucșoara and Corbi, in the north of Argeș County.

When the group was captured by the Securitate, a wave of arrests followed among the people who supported it for years, with some of them being incarcerated in Pitești penitentiary. The Arnăuțoiu brothers and 14 other men were sentenced to death and executed in Jilava prison on the night of 18/19 July 1959.

Maria Plop was sentenced to life in prison, but the brutal conditions of imprisonment resulted in her death on the 31st of January 1962 in the Miercurea Ciuc penitentiary. After her parents were arrested, Toma Arnăuțoiu and Maria Plop's daughter, born in the mountains in 1956, was put up for adoption. She discovered her biological parents' identity only after 1990.

Members of the Muscel Outlaws group, active in the mountains (1949-1958): Gheorghe Arsenescu, Toma Arnăuțoiu, Petre Arnăuțoiu, Maria Plop, Ion Chirca, Gheorghe Chirca, Eugen Chirca, Elena Chirca, Titu Jubleanu, Constantin Jubleanu, Maria Jubleanu, Benone Milea, Constantin Popescu, Aurelia Costea, Gheorghe Mămăligă, Ion Marinescu.