Victor Isac

"The arrest was here, in this room. It was very hard.... It was...Thursday before Easter. I was waiting.... The church bells were ringing.... My older child, he was about 7 or 8 years, and the younger one... a year and a half.... I was with the younger child in my arms.... Invasion...of the Securitate.... I told them... 'You don’t have reasons to arrest me.' 'We have arrest warrant.' You can imagine it was a dramatic scene. I mean... the child was snatched from my arms, crying, my wife was crying too....The older child came also here in the room: 'Come on, Dad ... what should we do? Are we going to vespers? The bells are ringing....Aren’t we going...?' This was the atmosphere in which I have been arrested. It was extremely painful. I mean that, many of these scenes I cannot... is hard for me to handle."

"In that organization’s 'T' trial, together with Fluieras, was arrested also a socialist, Măglaşu, but he disagreed with Bolshevism... the new one, which was installed in our country. And this Măglaşu... I do not know... [Nicolae] Ceausescu [wanted] to invite all those who took part to the party’s establishment in 1923 [1921 - translator note], May 8th.... And, they found also this Măglaşu.... He got the invitation to the event.... And he said: 'How should I take part to this event with you, who sentenced me to prison?' [laughs] I think he received amnesty, because he was released. 'I was a political prisoner.' 'This cannot be! Do my forms!' And the forms were made, he was acquitted. Well, from this acquittal also we benefited, and I was acquitted of this trial."