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Access to Securitate Files: the Trials and Tribulations of a Romanian Law

2002; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 16; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/0888325402016001006

1533-8371

Lavinia Stan,

International Law and Human Rights

We had a state. Then we had the Party to try to make the state work. Then we had the State Security to try to make the Party and state work. And still it didn't work. An East German quoted by Timothy Garton Ash, The File The relationship between the communist structures and the Securitate was similar to that between the brain and the hand. The brain was the Communist Party, the hand executing the orders was the Securitate. Senator Ioan Moisiu Romanian, Christian Democrat