ABSTRACT
Petre Tutea was always reluctant to speak about the 're-education' experience which he underwent in prison, and which he regarded as 'a blot on the conscience of the Romanian nation'. Stalinist 're-education' methods were first tried out on Romanian soldiers and officers imprisoned in Soviet concentration camps during the Second World War, and then brought to Romania when military prisoners were repatriated at the end of the war. The suppression of history became a significant part of the re-education of society. The re-education programme in Romania sought to change people's Christian and national sense of identity by means of what survivors called 'demonic confession'. Tutea's resistance to re-education, his attempt to retain his humanity in the face of systematic torture, became for him an 'unmasking of evil'. Evil must be counteracted by a life of true 'unmasking', lived in thankful and repentant discovery of God's faithfulness.
