Pitesti 're-education' experiment

Historical Context Note

Litencyc Editors (Independent Scholar - Europe)
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The Pitesti prison is remembered for the brainwashing experiments carried out by Communist authorities between 1949-1952, designed as a violent 're-education' system for a large category of undesirable and recalcitrant anti-communist political prisoners. Together with the labour camps of Goli Otok in former Yugoslavia, and those of the Danube-Black Sea Canal, it was one of the most violent and atrocious penitentiary systems in communist East-Central Europe.

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Citation: Editors, Litencyc. "Pitesti 're-education' experiment". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 May 2009 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=7114, accessed 28 March 2024.]

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