A new parliamentarian and former officer in Romania’s notorious Securitate gets misty-eyed about the good old days.16 March 2001 In the following 24 February interview published by the Bucharest-based Adevarul newspaper, the most-read Romanian daily, Colonel Ilie Merce, once a high-ranking officer in the communist Securitate secret police and now a parliamentarian from the right-wing […]

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