March 15, 1949 – based in New York National Committee for a Free Europefunded by the US Congress and a radio station Free Europe will broadcast on behalf of this organization. – July 4, 1950It is symbolic that on USA Day, the first broadcast of Radio Free Europe is broadcast on short waves, and in 1951, the Munich studio for Eastern Europe was inaugurated. – May 23, 1958, refusing to convince her daughter to become an employee of Security, from Paris, where she found refuge in 1947, Ekaterina Beletsa, mother of Monica Lovinescu, is arrested and sentenced to 18 years of rigorous imprisonment. He was 71 years old. Following the mode of extermination, he dies further June 7, 1960, after he was initially thrown into the prison morgue while still alive. – From December 1961 Monica Lovinescu’s collaboration with Europa Liberă begins in the Paris studio. In La apa Babylonului, the one who lost her mother in these terrible circumstances notes: “And she allowed herself to die so that I could be born again, to have the freedom to be myself.” – November 18, 1977, on the eve of her birthday, Monica Lovinescu was brutally beaten by two Palestinian terrorists borrowed by Ceausescu from Arafat. “Shut up! Let’s go crazy! Let’s break his teeth, his jaw, break his hands! Let him never be able to speak or write again!” – this is how General Pacepa recorded Ceausescu’s order. Monica Lovinescu is hospitalized in a coma. – February 21, 1981, Security plants a bomb at the headquarters of Free Europe in Munich. – November 13, 1988, Vlad Georgescu, director of Free Europe, dies, presumably killed by Securitate by radiation. On his initiative, immediately after its appearance in America, in 1987, the famous book of General Pachepa was read serially in Free Europe. Red horizonswho made terrible revelations about communism and the Ceausescu regime – V 2007 year, drawn by Constantin Beletanu-Stolnici, who in the meantime became a boyar and a great liberal, a plan of Vlad Georgescu’s apartment was found. The document, a handwritten draft, is part of the source file, i.e. the shaper codenamed “Laurentiu” by the Securitate. – Thursday, July 6, at 11 a.m, in the Aula of the Romanian Academy, “Laurentiu”, alias Constantin Bălăceanu-Stolnici, an honorary member of the Academy, is celebrated on the occasion of his 100th birthday. The first honors – we read in the program on the Academy’s website – will be pronounced by the president of the Academy, Ioan Aurel Pop, and the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Prefericitul Daniel.

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Beletsanu-Stolnici is an “old nobleman” (his ancestors date back to the 13th century) from the Beletseni family, a family known for historical charities (urban, church and educational). And thanks to Scaieni Falanster (1835), founded on the estate of Emanuel Beletsan’s ancestor, we also had our furriers. In short, Beletsanu-Stolnici presents himself and presents himself to us as a great man of the nation, “the last true aristocrat”, a neurologist, professor, doctor of medical sciences, head of the Institute of Geriatrics, and since 1992 head of the Moral Reform Group of the PNL.

However, the same Beletanu-Stolnici has been cooperating with the communist political police since 1965, carrying out, as an informer with impressive experience, one of the most spectacular careers as a shaper and agent of influence of the Security. Thanks to the connections (and moral authority) that, as a nobleman with a centuries-old genealogy, he had in the Romanian émigré, he was able to infiltrate the most important places in the émigré, from the directors of Radio Europa libera to the top of the Romanian government. intelligentsia in France and Germany. In the portrait he paints, Neculai Constantin Munteanu, a journalist for Europa Liberă since 1980, placed him in the top 5 “most disgusting whistleblowers”:

“He rushed from all positions: liberals, peasants, monarchists, diplomats, colleagues, doctors, patients, relatives,” says Muntianu about him. And he adds: “Influx for money, for career and due to excessive diligence. The man lived happily as a foundry. Characteristic thing. The boyar had the grip of a brawler and a thieving servant. (…) He was awarded the right to travel abroad and cash, in lei and foreign currency. What was given to him, a lot, a little, the man took. From a meager tip of 125 lei to 4,000 lei, which is half the cost of a trip to the west. Even the handicraft trinkets handed out to visitors and piled up were calculated. He was received, at his request, by Vlad Georgescu, director of the Romanian department of Free Europe. The result of the visit was a detailed sketch of the owner’s apartment, preserved in the security archive.”

All this time, Bălăceanu-Stolnici is omnipresent in the public space. He likes to pretend to be an older figure. He is convinced that, leaning with dignity on the carved handle of the staff with crossed palms, he preserves the memory of real boyars. He dresses like this, even if underneath he wears an invisibility cloak of his true calling: a fine foundry. Whoever has not seen the silver cane of Beletsan-Stolnici, his sumptuous buttonholes, the gold chain passed through the button of his waistcoat, his pocket-watch, his gilt-rimmed spectacles and cord, cannot properly imagine what one of the greatest wretched human props that crossed Romanian public space. Always a surprising space where a quasi-illiterate rising to the presidency could meet halfway with a scion of the great nobility descending to the foundry.

I am inclined to believe that as a 25-year molder (1965-1989) Beletsanu-Stolnici had a much wider and more fruitful career than his entire medical, scientific and academic career. If we are to read the holographic autobiography he wrote in the Security whistleblower dossier, this side of his life is far larger and more prolific than his entire medical, scientific and academic career. It was a formidable turner, well disguised as a doctor with blinders. Refer to the pompous report of the CNSAS, which declares our boyar, rechristened in the security offices as “Laurentiy” “an employee of the communist political police”, a decision “final and irreversible” to verify. . (Balaceanu Stolnici.pdf – cnsas.ro)

Without any doubts, we can say that “Laurentiu” surpassed Beletsana-Stolnici. The merits he brought to his country during communism will allow him to remain in the history of Romania as the most important collaborator and agent of influence of the Ceausescu regime and security.

It seems that it was for this undeclared reason that his colleagues honored him from the podium of the Academy the other day. One of the tributes called him a “moderate nature”. A wonderful phrase, capable of conveying in two words all the qualities that a creature should possess, so harmoniously woven from darkness and light. All the great duplicitous men of the world – from criminals, informers and well-informed politicians, all class contortionists – live their lives divided between stage and plot, night and day mode. They commit the most sophisticated evil under the guise of decency, cheerfulness, meeting. They are all “moderate natures”: balanced, balanced, restrained, self-respecting, calm and prudent, quiet, calm, reserved people. And with an outfit. In a perfect repetition, “Laurentiu” speaks in his file about Bălăceanu-Stolnici in the third person and lists all the qualities that recommend him both as an ideal informant and agent of influence and as director of the Institute of Geriatrics. . Frankly and as a natural reward for foundry work, he asks for the directorship of Ana Aslan, since death was knocking at her door… Because, if not him, then who? In the name of his historical rank of “old boyar”, he demanded as an act of justice a promotion to the rank of the Securitate.

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To understand the country we live in and all the ugliness of this academic glorification on the occasion of the centenary of a person who was included in the “top 5 most disgusting whistleblowers”, perhaps it is worth remembering that this year I am also celebrating, in the guilty silence of state institutions, 100 years since the birth of one of the most chosen beings born in Romania. The irony in the Academy shows us where our history has come: 33 years have passed since the anti-communist revolution was captured by a neo-communist regime. Is it unnatural, then, that a security officer should be put on a pedestal, and Monica Lovinescu – although she stood up for the silenced people for 30 years, paying for her audacity with the death of her mother and a terrible beating to the point of coma – be forgotten?

I ask those of you whom I know she respected and loved, those of you who knew her, cherished and loved her in turn: do you not think that her moral position, if she were among us, would be as 6 July the Feast of Safety, would he shudder to see whom you honor under the dome of the Academy, now a place of public shame? – Read the entire article and comment on Contributors.ro