Communist Intelligence Officers Should Be Brought To Justice for Having Recruited Children

The new findings of CNSAS, the authority in charge with the study of the files of the former communist intelligence services, showing the latter recruited underage children as informants, proved once more that the feared Securitate was far from a professional body worthy of its name.

And that national security was a lame excuse for, in fact, securing the positions of the top party leadership against political dissent.

To that end it used methods of political policing Romania’s own population, with little chance for professional securing of the country’s security against outside threats.

The feeling of revulsion at hearing that the Securitate called on children to spy on their own parents cannot be suppressed, as it became public that the intelligence services turned families into the testing ground of their perverse policing.

By no means am I an advocate of blanket accusations against a professional body which might have included people who indeed acted according to what one might expect of them, namely to defend the country.

This is why I believe that the personal fault of individuals engaging into such recruiting of children should be brought to the fore. Each should answer for its own deeds in front of the society and of the law.

During the early years of communism, in the ‘50s, Securitate was to blame for the death of tens of thousands of Romanians imprisoned for the political beliefs.

In the ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s, the threats turned more insidious and perverse, turning many people lives into a living hell.

It is high time for Romania’s current judiciary to act upon this information and bring to justice such criminals, in this case for attacking the children’s minds and well-being.

Romania will never get well as a society if perpetrators of such past crimes will continue to walk freely among us.