18 July 1958, was executed in Botoșani. In 1959, 80 people led by Vasile Blănaru were tried for "armed insurrection" in the area of Câmpulung Muscel. By the early 1960s, most of the anti-communist partisans in Romania were either killed or arrested. All influential or popular rebel leaders had been executed or captured. There were a few isolated guerrillas, but they either gave up fighting, went into hiding, or were simply executed after being captured by the Romanian Securitate. The Romanian Security Forces succeeded in defeating rebel forces due to coordination between the Securitate and militia forces, as well the penetration of the insurgent groups with the use of informers, intelligence gathering, and persuasion. The implacable chase of the authorities on the resisters as well as the gag order on the existence of the resistance show how concerned the regime was, that the symbol of political insubordination might become contagious. In memoriam In 2016, a monument dedicated to the anti-communist resistance in Romania and Bessarabia was unveiled in front of the House of the Free Press, in Bucharest, close to the spot where a statue of Vladimir Lenin was between 1960 and 1990. The sculpture, which is tall and weighs 100 tons, is called "Wings" (Aripi); it was done by sculptor Mihai Buculei, whose father was a political prisoner at Aiud Prison. The Monument to the Anti-Communist Resistance in Cluj-Napoca was inaugurated in 2006 and is the work of architect Virgil Salvanu. It is a cube made of concrete, covered with white marble; on its sides, on plaques made of black marble, are the names of those prisons where members of the anti-communist resistance were incarcerated. There is also a memorial in Teregova commemorating anti-communist partisans in the Banat and Mehedinți mountains. The Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance in Sighetu Marmației houses the Sighet Memorial Museum, honoring the political prisoners who were detained at Sighet Prison, many of whom died there. See also Brașov Rebellion Romanian Revolution Anti-Soviet partisans Vin americanii! Eastern European anti-Communist insurgencies Ioanid Gang References External links Georges Diener, "Résistance Paysanne et Maquis en Roumanie de 1945 à 1965 – La résistance paysanne à la collectivisation", Genèses – Sciences sociales et histoireno, no. 43, 2001/2 Toma Arnăuțoiu – The anti-communist partisans of Nucșoara – Biography, photos, documents about Toma Arnăuțoiu. Socialist Republic of Romania Anti-communism in Romania Rebellions in Romania Political repression