Cultură și poliție politică în România comunistă. Operațiunea ”Bastionul” [Articol]

Abstract

Culture and political police in communist Romania. Operation “Bastion”. In the early 1980s, one of the few clandestine publications in Romania appeared in Oradea. Its name was Ellenpontok (Counterpoints). It was edited by a group of Hungarian intellectuals from Oradea and Cluj-Napoca. A total of 8 issues were published. The first was Kovacs Tiberiu Attila, in 1983, followed by Toth Karoly with his wife one of the few clandestine publications appeared in Oradea. Her name was Ellenpontok (Counterpoints). It was edited by a group of Hungarian intellectuals from Oradea and Cluj-Napoca. A total of 8 issues appeared. The initiators was Ara- Kovács Tiberiu Attila and Tóth Károly, they being supported from Cluj-Napoca by the poet Géza Szőcs. In the pages of the magazine they published first of all representatives of the Hungarian elite, but we also find some names from the Romanian elite in exile. After these events, most of those involved left the border, most of them, 1984, and the writer Szocs Geza in 1986, the latter in the Federal Republic of Germany.