The special representative of the government for the promotion of the politics of memory, the fight against anti-Semitism and xenophobia, Aleksandra Muraru, asks the authorities to “remove the monument dedicated to the “heroes” of the former Security Service” from the heroes’ cemetery in Pitesti, “the city where the greatest abuses of the police of the communist regime took place” .

“Establishing a funerary monument in honor of former security service officers and placing it in the heroes’ cemetery in Pitesti is an action that goes against the obligations undertaken by Romania as a member state of the European Union,” he said, as quoted by News.ro. .

“Communist totalitarianism was condemned in the European Parliament in 2009. Thus, crimes against humanity and numerous human rights violations committed by communist regimes were condemned. In 2006, the Romanian Parliament, in the report of the Presidential Commission on the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania, clearly and unequivocally stated that Security is “an important institution for the support of a communist totalitarian state, illegitimate and criminal. Condemning this regime, the Romanian democratic state condemns its instruments, above all the Romanian Communist Party and Security,” Alexandru Muraru said in a press release on Friday.

He added that Bezpeka was the “armed arm” of the Communist Party, which kept a “kleptocratic, abusive, dictatorial and criminal elite” in power.

“Any attempt to relativize the role of security is an insult to the victims of the communist regime and takes us out of the European orbit, where the preservation and consolidation of a culture of memory for those who suffered from totalitarian regimes is sacrosanct.” , he claimed to Muraru.

According to him, it is a historically proven fact that the security forces and other units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were the ones who acted directly to control and intimidate the population.

“Therefore, erecting a tombstone in honor of former security officers and placing it in the Heroes’ Cemetery in Pitesti is an action that goes against the commitments undertaken by Romania as a member state of the European Union. In addition, Romania was among the Eastern European states that demanded at the European level a ban on the denial and trivialization of communist crimes, as well as their apology. The true heroes of Romania are precisely those victims who resisted the persecution regime organized by the Communist Party and embodied by the Securitate. I call on the authorities to remove the monument dedicated to the “heroes” of the former Bezpeka from the heroes’ cemetery in Pitesti, the city where the greatest abuses of the political police took place during the communist regime,” Muraru stressed.