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Weapons captured from resistance groups
Petre Arnăuțoiu, arrest photo
Toma Arnăuțoiu, arrest photo
Possessions, notes and flyers found by the Securitate inside the groups’ hideaway (Arnăuțoiu)
Possessions, notes and flyers found by the Securitate inside the groups’ hideaway (Arnăuțoiu)
Possessions, notes and flyers found by the Securitate inside the groups’ hideaway (Arnăuțoiu)
Weapons captured from resistance groups
Weapons captured from resistance groups
Possessions, notes and flyers found by the Securitate inside the groups’ hideaway (Arnăuțoiu)
Pimen Bărbierul - arrest photo
Traian Marinescu “Geagu” arrest photo
Gheorghe Haşu (on the left) - arrest photo
Ioan Novac (in the center) - arrest photo
Victor Metea (on the right) - arrest photo
Maria Balea (on the left) - arrest photo
Ana Ihuț (on the right) - arrest photo
Maria Plop with her and Toma Arnăuțoiu's daughter at the Securitate’s headquarters
The armed anti-communist resistance was one of the most direct forms of resistance to communism. Hundreds of people had taken to the mountains, either to fight effectively against the new political reality or to wait for military intervention by the Western powers.
The group led by Dumitru Apostol, active in the Argeș Mountains, was trying without success to join another group led by Gheorghe Arsenescu. Their actions were rather passive, concentrated on survival, but they also took some actions to intimidate communist activists in the area. Their existence was short-lived, the group being captured in May 1949.
The group leader, Dumitru Apostol, although sentenced to 25 years of hard labor, was executed alongside other members of the group.