How to Pronounce Gheorghe Ursu
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Jul 01, 1926 Soroca, Soroca District, Moldova Died on 17 Nov 1985 (aged 59)
Romanian writer
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About Gheorghe Ursu
- Gheorghe Emil Ursu (known to friends as Babu; July 1, 1926 – November 17, 1985) was a Romanian construction engineer, poet, diarist and dissident.
- A left-wing activist and avant-garde intellectual who joined the Romanian Communist Party as a youth, he was soon after disillusioned with the Communist regime, and became one of its most outspoken critics.
- For most of his life, Gheorghe Ursu was active in cultural circles, and maintained contacts with literary and artistic figures. Ursu publicly denounced the policies of Nicolae Ceausescu, and was kept under surveillance by the country's secret police—the Securitate.
- A journal in which he recorded his thoughts and opinions was the subject of a denunciation, which eventually led to his arrest.
- He was beaten to death soon after, while in the custody of the Securitate. Ursu's death was a matter of international scandal and, after the Romanian Revolution, the subject of an inquiry initially headed by prosecutor Dan Voinea.
- Much controversy arose over the new authorities' alleged procrastination, before two former officers were sentenced for his murder.
- A third one was jailed for confiscating his diary, most of which remains lost.
