“In the battles, in the mountains, we were just injured, but none of us got killed. Killed we were only when we were sold. I am saying with pain in my voice the sell of a brother is a national disease, which will kill us all, if we will not succeed in healing ourselves. We didn’t create illusions that many people will join us. Some of them didn’t come because they were afraid. They must be understood, too. Others are focused only onto their interests. The regimes are changing, but the profiteers don’t. It remains the big mass of those who are working, whose life is reduced to work and food, in an eternal cycle and whose consciousness is not higher than the food plate in front of their mouth. With them the rulers can do whatever they want. First of all, to think instead of their brains”.
Ion Gavrila Ogoranu 1921 - 2006
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Frăția de Cruce “Negoiu” (The Brotherhood of the Cross)[/caption]Ion Gavrilă Ogoranu (January 1, 1923 – May 1, 2006) was a member of The Iron Guard, who between 1948 and 1956, after the Soviet occupation of Romania, became the leader of an armed anti-communist resistance group in the Făgăraş Mountains.
He was born in a Romanian family as one of three children, in Țara Făgărașului. He studied at "Radu Negru" high school in Făgăraș, where he was a member of the Frăția de Cruce "Negoiu" (The Brotherhood of the Cross), the youth wing of The Iron Guard. He attended classes at the Department of Agronomy, University of Cluj. Between 1941 and 1944, he was imprisoned for "forbidden activities". He was involved in anti-communist activities in Cluj. For 7 years (1948 - 1955), he led the Grupul Carpatin Făgărășan. For his activities he was sentenced in absentia to 19 years in prison and, later, in 1951, to death. For 29 years, the Securitate were unable to capture him. He was caught in 1976, after 21 years on the run, at the house of the widow of a political prisoner, Ana Săbăduș, who later became his wife. He was reportedly spared execution at the direct intervention of U.S. President Richard Nixon.
His life is the subject of a movie, "Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man". At the 60th Berlin International Film Festival, the movie attracted protests from organizations such as the "Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania",which demanded that the film be pulled.The Festival refused to pull it, arguing that they don't believe in censorship, but they are aware that Ogoranu made publicly "extremist, racist, and antidemocratic statements" and that they "do not support such views, and neither does the movie".
Portretul luptatorului la tinerete (2010): The Fighter's Portrait as a Young Man - English subtitles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_OETM_2_kY
How managed Ion Gavrila Ogoranu not to be captured by Securitate until 1976
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DGGifWOH_o
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