The Religious Repression in Communist Romania. A Case Study: "The Burning Bush"

Abstract

The article is the outcome of the research conducted in the Archives of the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives. The author focused his analysis on a famous religious Eastern Orthodox group in the history of the Romanian Gulag: “Rugul Aprins” (the Burning Bush). Thus and other tragical judicial sagas prove that the Romanian orthodox Church suffered the persecutions of the Romanian Communist Stat in the same ways as the other religious cults and denominations, in the post World War II Romania.