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Another form of anticommunist resistance came from 32 priests who were sent into
pension by force in the autumn of 1948.
There are no many information about the Greek-Catholic priests from Banat who were
imprisoned. The specialized studies made references only to the great personalities of this
Church. A good example could be the labor camps, as a detention place for the Greek-
Catholic priests, which are less known. The most research related to this topic have traded
only the prisons of Sighet, Gherla, Aiud and several Orthodox monasteries where the
Greek-Catholic priests were in forced domicile. Through the labor camps the communist
regime followed the total isolation of the persons who were opposing to the communist
regime. "The advantages" of the labor camps were many: redemption, reeducation and
extermination of the opposant persons, the terrorisation of the population and free labor
force 5 . In this respect, the prison of Timisoara can show us the mechanism of the transfer
of the Greek-Catholic priests because here has begun the itinerary of the Greek-Catholic
priests from Banat in the communist prisons.
5 According to Dennis Deletant, Romania under the communist regime, Bucharest, Academia
Civica, 2003, p. 113