The author of this book,
Testimonies from the Swamp of Desperation, Mr. Bordeianu Gh. Dumitru, asked me to write on the preface of his book.
I did not dare to honor his wish, thanks to a sentiment of great humility. How can I write my name on the front page of a book which quakes you with the things it testifies about?
I myself have been through many ordeals and many of my comrades suffered, being persecuted in camps and prisons, under the communist regime, but the
Pitesti drama surpasses any imagination. Only devilish souls, only the perverted minds of the power of evil, only the instruments of hell could have imagined and put in practice this string of horrors. To torture the human being so much that they don't have a choice but to die, or to be assimilated into communism and killing what is good in them, that which is made in the Image of God, is something which is not allowed.
Dumitru Bordeianu is one of those survivors of Pitesti. What he writes is not hear-say, but his own testimony, from the swamp of desperation, as he calls this terrible persecution. Other authors have indeed
written about Pitesti as well, but all those are written from what they heard. I don't say those aren't valuable, but I did not hold in my hand a book which really can describe the things which took place at Pitesti, until now. To cry from your own flesh and blood about the torments you were subjected to, is a testimony without any need for comment. Bordeianu Dumitru is a testifier to the truth, to what really went on in between the walls of that factory of death, both physical and moral. Dumitru Bordeianu also sets another fact to be accurate, told by other authors and magazine writers, that the horrors at Pitesti were spearheaded by the communist agenda towards the young
Romanian men and women, students, they being considered as a body, organization. In reality, indeed, as the author of these testimonies tells us, the communist wrath was directed towards the young men and women who were part of The Archangel Michael's Legion, from schools and universities.
The murderous tendencies of the ones directing these operations from the shadow was even more fierce toward those university students of the Legion in their last years of faculty study.
These demonic minds set as objective to themselves to destroy the foundation - the students - from which the Legion drew its members, mostly. If the foundation from which the Legion drew its members got destroyed, the Legion would surely be destroyed too. This explains why in Pitesti the most inhumane treatment was set in motion, of all the prisons on Romania at that time. There was no escape from it, other than dying being tortured or be willing to torture your own fellow men, through the same methods of torture brought by the communist regime.
Dumitru Bordeianu isn't the man to try and erect a statue for himself based on the sufferings of others. He fell in the swamp of desperation as well, suffering moral defeat. How exalting his example truly is! As the Captain would have said : "You made a mistake, you pay and walk again, with your face clean".
Lets bow to the memory of those who preferred death over human degradation, but lets understand those who tried to save themselves too, with the price sought by their executioners, after they were subjected weeks in a row to the most horrific tortures.