1941 he was awarded the Order of the Star, Knight rank. As the war against the Soviet Union began in June 1941, he asked to be sent to the front, but his request was refused. Țuțea worked as a director in the Ministry of War Economy and after King Michael's Coup of 23 August 1944, a director of studies in the Ministry of National Economy. Communist era Țuțea was arrested by the Communist regime in 1949, and was sent, without a trial, to "re-education" (euphemism for forced labor) at Ocnele Mari state prison. After he was released in 1953, and unable to find work, he lived with friends and relatives. Arrested again in 1956, he was tried for "conspiracy against the State". He was found guilty and sentenced to 18 years of hard labor, of which he served 8 years in various prisons, ending up in the infamous Aiud Prison. After the release of all political prisoners in 1964, Petre Țuțea became a Socratic philosopher. He also started to write books and essays, created an original dramatic form, "theater as seminar", and produced a philosophical manifesto, "The Philosophy of Nuances" (1969). Due to censorship, very little of his work would be published, and virtually nothing appeared after 1972. Under permanent observation, Țuțea had many of his manuscripts confiscated by the Romanian secret police, the Securitate. In the late 1980s he started working on a massive unfinished project in 5 volumes; "Man, a Christian Treatise of Anthropology". After the Revolution After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, Țuțea was embraced by Romanian intellectuals, receiving frequent requests from journalists and TV crews for interviews while living for a year with a student in theology, Radu Preda. Țuțea spent the last year of his life in a Christian hospice, "Christiana". He died in Bucharest at age 89, before seeing any of his books published. He was buried in the cemetery next to Saint Parascheva Church in Boteni. A very popular book (sold in more than 70,000 copies) is 322 de vorbe memorabile, a collection of aphorisms taken from various interviews, ordered alphabetically. In these interviews Țuțea adopted a hyperbolic, rhetorical style and the editor's choices included several controversial topics, such as atheism, Communism, and Antisemitism. He generally adopts a hardline Orthodox Christian point-of-view, being critical of various groups, including atheists (whom he names "weasels"), communists (naming communism a "social cancer") and Jews (whom he