Pitesti: Romania’s Communist Nightmare of Re-Education and Torture

Pitesti: Romania’s Communist Nightmare of Re-Education and Torture

Recent events in Romania, including the cancellation of elections, have filled social networks with comments about the country’s recent past, back to the days when the Iron Curtain fell over Eastern Europe.     During World War II, the Soviets used Pavlov’s conditioned reflex theories to train their bomb dogs. The animals were starved for several days and then fed under a tank with the engine running, so that the dog associated the noise of the …