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Tomb raiders for justice. A Romanian team of indepndent historians are digging up the victims of Communism (Photo: Romania Libera)

Digging up the victims of Communism

The historians Marius Oprea and Gheorghe Petrov are very atypical characters for Romania. In a country in which half the population still feels some nostalgia for the Communist regime and in which a Communist Party has recently been resurrected, the two historians have acquired a reputation for being "Securitate hunters", people specialising in digging up and unmasking the crimes of the former regime's secret police, but also of the crimes of Communism in general.

The two historians ha...

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Tomb raiders for justice. A Romanian team of indepndent historians are digging up the victims of Communism (Photo: Romania Libera)

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