“The extent of the suffering had largely been hidden.  Stalinist purges in the former Soviet Union and Communist repression in Eastern Europe claimed millions of lives in the 20th century, according to historians. In Romania alone, more than 600,000 people were sentenced and jailed between 1945 and 1989 for political reasons. Stanca was one of them. ‘In the jail, we suffered from hunger, we did not get any medical assistance, we were continuously humiliated,’ he said. He was then sent to a labour camp to erect dikes along the Danube river. ‘I think only the pyramids were built with such inhumane physical work,’ he added.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/21/former-jail-keeps-memory-of-communist-repression-raw/

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